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LOL

Even better than a Ponzi Scheme, let's just sell "shares" of this "company" (which by the way has a paper value of a very round and big ZERO) for cash

Toilet paper provides better value

Oh wait, he "buys low and sells high", that explains it.

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Bitfinex is the largest BTC exchange in the world, over $500 million per day in volume today. Big days are multi-billion dollar volume. Like most exchanges, they take a percentage cut of every transaction. This is not a company with zero value. The "buy low sell high" arbitrage thing is from a previous, unrelated business idea posted 5 years ago to a btc forum by the founder of bitfinex. As far as I know, it never went anywhere.

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