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>They could have simply kept their assets in stable coins, like Dai, Tether, etc..

To turn into dust?

>They could also sell into USD on exchanges that allow you to trade USD (e.g. Kraken).

And trust Kraken then.

>Another option would have been to open a hedging short position on say, Bitmex.

and trust bitmex then.

There are no scalable options to cash out $10m to a bank and sleep well. You could cash out into some "stable coin" only to wake up to it costing $0.04 (hello nubits). Tether is no safer in that matter.

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> To turn into dust?

Oh, you mean the 'dust' that is worth exactly $1 at this moment, where Ethereum has lost 90% of its value? That dust?

> And trust Kraken then.

Yep, the exchange that's been trustworthy and operated seamlessly since its inception, sure. And still does.

> There are no scalable options to cash out $10m to a bank and sleep well. You could cash out into some "stable coin" only to wake up to it costing $0.04 (hello nubits). Tether is no safer in that matter.

You may not sleep perfectly, but you'll sleep a lot better than if you're holding it in crypto. And that is my point. And if you wanted to use Dai, you could actually sleep perfectly. Dai has held up perfectly well, and you can hold it off-exchange.

Past performance does not indicate future results.

The most common disclaimer in finance, but equally applicable to all things in life.

That's a cute saying, but let me know when you park your money in a bank that opened yesterday.

I don't see your point. It's a common legal statement to explain that there are no guarantees. Are you arguing that you can in fact guarantee what the market is going to do?

No, i'm arguing that you are not making any kind of point by saying that. What is your statement intended to prove?

I would feel totally safe parking my money in any FDIC insured bank regardless of when it opened.

That is a nice sounding meme, but it has little basis in reality. What is the probability that microsoft is going to go bankrupt 1 year from now? If your answer is "a very low probability" then that means that past performance does indeed indicate future results.

That statement is legal disclaimer that refers to a lack of guarantees because that is, in fact, the reality of the market. Probability is not an argument against it.

However, if you would like to discuss probabilities then the history of the crypto market only reinforces the trend of failure as discussed in this thread.

Gemini, Coinbase?

Only if you did KYC on every single customer.

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