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maaku on July 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Final Steps

What does that even mean? If I were to add up every single transaction involving USD, what percentage do you think would be HFT and other Wall St speculation?

jsprogrammer on July 27, 2015 | [–]

Even better, if you add up every spendable unit of USD you'll find that the vast majority of it originates in a bank loan.

All of that HFT and Wall St. speculation is using leveraged bank credits.

Touche on July 27, 2015 | [–]

A fraction of the same type of transaction for Bitcoin.

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