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gjhgqpqndpe··on Today's peak crypto arbitrage spreads for 26 pairs – BTC/USD 10.98%
I guess it doesn't necessarily need to indicate that the exchange is having problems with fiat withdraw, but if they did your scenario could definitely make sense.

I think it could also just indicate a lack of arbitrage being executed that keeps the price in line with other exchanges, meaning as a separate market the price is free to move higher / lower than other markets without necessarily indicating some sort of problem at the exchange. Normally this would be sort of synchronised to some level by arbitrage.

It seems like the arbitrage opportunity here is real and at least someone recently managed to profit ~10% from it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7kitks/arbi...

Although of course it is a bit slow which exposes you to lots of risks, so if you really wanted to do it you would need to hedge your exposure with other types of trades (shorts, etc) to try to limit the amount of risk.

I guess what I am thinking is just it could also be the exchange is operating fine, people are able to withdraw fiat, but it's just not worth the risk / effort to run arbitrage (or people just aren't doing it) and that could at least explain some price difference without there needing to be some sort of systemic problem at the exchange. There of course could be.

gjhgqpqndpe··on Today's peak crypto arbitrage spreads for 26 pairs – BTC/USD 10.98%
https://blog.cex.io/news/registration-on-hold-16870

Seems like this might at least be a factor, but honestly I don't know what something like that would mean in terms of the impact on pricing on an exchange.

gjhgqpqndpe··on Today's peak crypto arbitrage spreads for 26 pairs – BTC/USD 10.98%
Most of the big spreads seem to be caused by cex being much more expensive than the other exchanges... Does that indicate something is happening with cex?
gjhgqpqndpe··on Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers
Sounds like that deserves a bit of caution. They were "hiring like crazy" not long ago in Berlin, I guess those jobs would have lasted less than a year:

https://twitter.com/justproductjobs/status/83132760282459340... https://twitter.com/BetaListJobs/status/829744239852548096 https://twitter.com/BetaListJobs/status/824655808680095753 https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/130465/android-developer-f-m-...

gjhgqpqndpe··on Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers
Sort of interesting just to hear about the ups and downs of companies like dubsmash. They were often cited as an example of Berlin's future as a startup city [1]. They went from 35+ employees to 27 [2] to now 12 as they've stated in this post. They also moved from Berlin to New York, which seems to imply they felt like the city couldn't offer what they currently need. It looks like in the process of moving they didn't take that many of the employees with them (maybe this was also a way out of strict German employment rules?) Seems like a bit of an attempt at a restart (co-founder Roland Grenke seems to be gone, etc).

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/european-startups-2016-berlin [2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/dubsmash-9m/