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Why not trade the stock market instead? APIs are available from the major brokers... It is much more liquid, you have the government protection in case the broker disappears with your money... With the same effort you can build generational wealth if you have an edge...


Competition.

Crypto markets, although slow, don't have companies worth billions of dollars and thousands of employees trading.

There are actually windows that can stay open for minutes at a time, rather than seconds or milliseconds.


To me they are every slow you cannot trade 6 or 7 digits account fast in the crypto market to get in and out efficiently... not to mention security - who is going to protect your money if the broker disappears... every year a big exchange goes bust...


In general, risk is proportional to reward. Your given risks and many more repel more professional traders and arbitragers, therefore allowing the above stock market margin of profits.


There is a risk and there is a gamble...




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