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At 10:00 on the evening of September 24, XT.COM CEO Weber WOO and Haken, the world's leading cyber security consulting company, launched an online AMA with the theme of "Future Development of XT.COM". Weber talked about XT.COM's history, team, business development and attitude towards the development of the blockchain industry. When talking about the future market trend of XT.COM, Weber said, "XT will continue to explore markets in Europe, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America in the future, and further strengthen XT's international market."submitted by okoAlderman to XTExchange [link] [comments]
The community members actively presented their questions following the event. Congratulations to the four users u/Nos Tha u/brucelee199 u/DanielleStelle u/brunoiat, getting rewards for putting up questions.
For those missing the broadcast, Mr.XT has compiled the content for everyone~ Let's get a review~
Host: Dyma Budorin | Hacken CEO
Guest: Weber WOO | XT.COM CEO
Dyma:Please introduce yourself a little.Where are you from?When were you involved in crypto?
Weber:Hello Hackeners. I am Weber Woo from the XT.COM exchange. I am glad to be invited here to share something about the XT exchange, XT team, and also myself. I am from Shanghai, China. When I was studying MBA at school in 2012, I read an article in Business Week about Bitcoin being very popular in Iran. Because of sanctions, many Iranians bought bitcoin to transfer their assets to overseas. That was the first time I heard about crypto.
Dyma:What experience do you have in crypto? Trading? Mining? Investing? Holding? Only positive experience or negative, too?
Weber:I will talk about my experience in Blockchain, and also my team.
In 2013, after my friends involved in Bitcoin, I also started to pay more attention to it. We began to mine Bitcoin.
From 2013-2016, we are more focused on mining and trading. We have 100,000 mining machines in our mining factory, located in Yunnan, Sichuan province in China. Of course, most of them are owned by our customers.
At the end of 2016, we started our mining pool business. Our mining portfolio included BTC, ETH, ETC, ZEC, SC, DCR. We had 5%of ETH computing power at the peak.
At the beginning of 2017, we invested a crypto exchange in China. But it was stopped in September 2017, because of China's new policies.
In the middle of 2018, we started the XT exchange in Seychelles, headquartered in HongKong.
Dyma:Have you ever been hacked?
Weber:I've never been hacked directly But lost my Bitcoin from the MT. Gox hack in 2014. That taught me a lot to keep crypto-assets safe.
The MT. Gox incident also reminded our team and me to take security measures very seriously when running the XT exchange.
1.We know that XT has more than 1 millionn global users. You might have a big team. How many people? What idea does unite them?
Currently, XT has more than 80 employees comprised of the C-level team, technical developers, marketers, and business developers. More than 40% of our team have Postgraduate educational background. Our team comes from previous companies like Alibaba, Tencent, China Unicoin, Bosch, LG, and more.
Everyone on the team has a high level of understanding of what opportunities blockchain can and does provide for the world.
2.XT was introduced in 2018 — just in the beginning of crypto winter. Was it hard to start in such conditions? How did you motivate yourself and your colleagues?
Since XT started in a bear market, it was easier for us than other exchanges to stay agile and motivated.
We continued to grow our team and focus on building an exchange that protects its users and listens to what they want.
Understanding that just like any market, crypto goes through market cycles too. We stayed motivated and focused on being ready for the next bull market.
We already spend seven years in the blockchain industry. The bear market is an excellent opportunity to start a new business to save costs and talent recruits.
3.Is it really hard to be a Chinese crypto exchange nowadays?
As I said before, the XT exchange was registered in Seychelles, headquartered in HongKong. We are not officially a Chinese crypto exchange.
Half of our users are from other global markets than China. We are the most popular in Korea and Japan.
Of course, Crypto is still very popular in China, especially recently, with the rise of DeFi. Investors are smarter than 2017, but everyone is excited about all the new blockchain space developments.
4.Are your developers working on some new features? What should we expect?
Currently, XT is working on bringing new features to the exchange.
XT is the first social infused exchange that launched a Group Trading function in the BiYong App. BiYong is a social application focused on the Chinese market.
BiYong has more than 5 million users in total. We are the only partner for BiYong in Group trading. Users can trade within the social chatting app together as a collective.
I want to share some benefits for Group Trading.
This is how Group Trading typically works.
XT.com is launching a DEX.
We will launch DEX in quarter four this year. The product is still developing, so I cannot share more about it. We are glad to share it when it's ready.
Crypto future
1.Do you think the crypto winter is over?
With everything going on in the world currently, it is difficult to predict the future. I believe we are now in a bull market cycle, but things can change very quickly. We see different lengths of bear markets in the space as it grows. We must all pay attention to the trends and proceed accordingly.
2.Do you believe in the DeFi's potential to make mass adoption closer? Why do you think it is so popular today?
The rise of DeFi has been incredible this year. Projects like LINK, UNI, YFI caught the attention of millions. The technology for real use cases has been implemented, and there is a real opportunity to get in on the ground floor for eager investors.
With the recent airdrop from Uniswap with their new token, UNI has only driven interest within the DeFi space. I believe it will take time, but DeFi is here to stay regardless if the market decides to cycle again.
We can see DeFi Locked Value in the past three years in the following pic. It's popular and here to stay.
3.What could you advise your users? What are the main risks in trading and investing today?
I advise anyone trading or investing in crypto to be smart.
The crypto market is a very volatile place. Using good risk management is critical to ensure the security of their funds.
Do not put all your eggs and one basket and only invest what you are willing to lose would be my recommendation, especially when it comes to altcoins.
I think that Bitcoin and Etheruem are the best low-risk long term investment options.
So I suggest you can divide your investment into 3 sections. For example, 40% in BTC and ETH, 30% for Top 50 altcoins, and 30% for HIGH risk projects if you are willing to take the risk.
We can see the risk from this picture.
4. What are your and your company long-term plans? Where will you be in 5 years?
Regarding the market, XT will continue to grow as we expand to more world markets like Europe, SE Asian, South Asian, and South America.
For compliance, we already had our MSB license approved in the US and will apply for more in different markets in the future.
On the business side, we will still focus on mining and the exchange. Of course, our CEX and DEX will be our primary focus in the years to come.
About Hacken
Hacken is a premier cybersecurity consulting company with an essential focus on cryptocurrency exchanges and blockchain security.
Website: https://hacken.io/
About XT.COM
XT.COM is the world's first social infused exchange. Users can chat in communities while knowing the market trend to invest. In XT communities, users explore valuable coins together.
XT.COM is building towards garnering loyalty and bring new potential for the development of the entire blockchain industry. To achieve better development, it is necessary to break the tradition with a fresh model.
XT Exchange not only empowers the blockchain industry but leads the industry with its innovation.
While there are a number of consensus algorithms that most functional cryptocurrency platforms have adopted over the years, a couple of these algorithms have become more popular than the others.submitted by affilcoin to u/affilcoin [link] [comments]
While the proof of work (PoW) algorithm has been identified to be the very first consensus mechanism integrated into a crypto platform, the proof of stake (PoS) and the delegated proof of stake (DPoS) are two other mechanisms that have been designed as an alternative to PoW. The first move advantage PoW had in the market has not withstood criticism and adjustments to optimize the protocol.
Generally, the PoW system requires users to make use of advanced mining rigs and hardware which will require large computational power. The PoS and the DPoS algorithms unlike PoW requires fewer resources and by design happens to be more eco-friendly and sustainable.
For us to get an idea of how the delegated proof of stake works, it is only right that we have a knowledge of what the PoW and the PoS consensus mechanisms are and how they function.
Proof Of WorkThis is the first consensus algorithm to be integrated into a blockchain network. It was used as a way to ensure that the majority of the users on the Bitcoin network did not take total control of the network. It was used on the Bitcoin network to validate transactions and for users to validate these transactions, they have to make use of advanced and expensive hardware mining rigs.
With the high expenses associated with the PoW mining model, many people are restricted from entering the mining pools with any form of efficiency. Thus, power can become concentrated on a PoW network, one of the main concerns for users of the original networks operating with PoW.
This consensus algorithm will require users to solve complex mathematical problems if they are to compete and validate transactions on the network. These mathematical puzzles have been made to be as difficult as possible. This is to ensure that miners do not easily find these blocks.
Proof Of StakeThis consensus algorithm was designed to be an alternative to proof of work and the restrictions the PoW model put on user's ability to be miners. Proof of Stake was discovered in 2012 after most platform developers sought for alternative consensus algorithms that can be used. Unlike the PoW, the proof of stake algorithm requires that miners on the network stake or have their coins locked.
To explain better, for miners who want to mine on the network, they will have to stake a certain amount of coins if they are to successfully mine. This simply means that if a miner owns about 5% of the total coins on a network, then that user would then have the right to mine 5% of all transactions that are carried out on the network. Thus, creating an incentive for users to hold coins instead of the incentive many miners had in the proof of work model to sell their coins to the market quickly after mining them or in more malicious cases, try to attack a weaker proof of work network with a 51% attack.
Delegated Proof Of StakeThe Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) algorithm was launched in 2014 by Daniel Larimer, a more renown developer within the world of cryptocurrency. He helped pioneer this new model of validation for blockchain technologies. Today, there are a number of crypto platforms that make use of this consensus algorithm and they include Steem, Ark, Bitshares, Lisk, and many other networks today.
DPoS based blockchain networks work in a voting manner where stakeholders on the network will have to outsource their duties to third-parties. It can be said that these stakeholders are able to vote for a few people to help them manage the security of the network. On any of the DPoS based crypto networks, these individuals that are voted to maintain the security of the network for others are referred to as delegates, while those voted to validate transactions on these networks are called "witnesses".
A closer look at this consensus algorithm will point to a resemblance to the PoS algorithms. For example, on any of the DPoS based algorithms, the vote count and worth of each of the users will be determined by the number of coins they have in their possession. While the voting system may vary from one blockchain network to another, one thing is certain — each of the delegates or individuals to be voted for will have to present to others on the network a proposal of what they will accomplish when voted in as either delegates or witnesses. Most of the time, the rewards that are gotten from the validation of blocks by these witnesses are shared proportionally with the various electors. This is just like the PoS except that there is no voting system and that each user will have to represent himself.
DPoS based blockchain networks have their voting systems based on the reputation of the delegate in question. Unlike the traditional voting system, on these blockchain networks, if witnesses do not carry out their duty of validating blocks on the network, they will be expelled and immediately replaced by another. This helps to secure the network from malicious actors. Furthermore, these DPoS based networks adapt which makes them more scalable than the PoW and the PoS algorithms. This is because they elect a few people who do the job for the network.
Characteristics Of The Delegated Proof Of Stake AlgorithmWhile we have discussed what the DPoS consensus algorithm is, it is best that we discuss some of the features or characteristics that set it apart from both the PoS and the PoW. These underlying characteristics apply to the Delegated Proof of Stake algorithm as well. These characteristics include;
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Investors may still flutter with fear about the plunge of BTC in the early morning of Sept. 25. It has fallen more than $1,700 in three hours, a drop of more than 22%, while the decline of other cryptocurrencies was even greater. Sept. 25 is another unforgettable day for investors who have their fortunes be harvested after Sept. 4. Where will BTC's price go next? How will investors proceed to the next layout?
Market Pullback, A Plunge of 1,700 Points in Three Hours
At about 2 a.m. on September 25, the BTC's price fell sharply from 9,526 to 7,779 in three hours, a drop of more than 22%, which is a rare plunge in the crypto market this year. Meanwhile, top cryptocurrencies and altcoins have turned into the plunge mode with a short-term decline of 20%-30% and another decline of 700 points in BTC from 21:00 to 24:00 on Sep 26. Investors despaired and the confidence towards the market fell to the record low.
K-line of Bitcoin (Source: 58COIN Exchange)
Every time the market plunges, participants will find the reason. The reason for this decline is the pullback of the market since three rounds of the rally. The long-term liquidity at the high points is to balance the power between longs and shorts and make preparations for the halving of next year through whipsaw.
The Third Halving is Coming, Can BTC's Price Surges to $100,000?
The Bitcoin mining rewards halve every four years and have halved twice in 2012 and 2016 respectively. It is expected that the next halving will be carried out in May 2020. Undoubtedly, the supply of BTC will reduce after halving. What's more, if the demand remains the same, the price will fluctuate inevitably. What investors mostly concerned about is the surging opportunity brought by the third halving.
Let's try to find some clues by reviewing the data of the previous two halvings.
The first halving occurred on November 28, 2012, when the price of bitcoin was about $11. In the six months before the halving, the price ranged from $2 to $6, and the highest price soared to $1,200 one year after the halving, 110 times the price before the halving.
The second halving time happened on July 9, 2016, when the price was about $741. In the six months before the halving, the price ranged from $200 to $350, and the highest price soared to $19,000 one and a half years after the halving, 54 times the price before the halving.
We can conclude that six months before each halving is the best time to buy bitcoin, and 12 to 18 months after halving when the price surges to the highest, during which may be the optimal selling time.
BTC Reward Halving Time and Amount
The third halving is scheduled to take place on May 19, 2020. We can boldly guess the best purchasing and selling time, they are before November 2019 and between May 2021 to November 2021 separately. The estimated earnings are at least 10 to 50 times. If calculated according to the current price of $10,000, after May 2021, the bitcoin price may surge to over $100,000.
Unstable Political and Economic Situation, BTC Becomes the New Safe-Haven Asset
In addition to the change in supply and demand caused by halving, the instability of the global political and economic situation has also led to an increase in the market's investment in bitcoin, which has accelerated the rise in bitcoin prices.
The economic slowdown in the world's major economies, the Sino-US trade war, the upcoming Brexit and the hyperinflation in Argentina and Venezuela — making traditional investment risky, and more people turn to safe-haven assets such as gold and bitcoin. Data shows that the price of bitcoin has increased by 262% from the lowest at the beginning of 2019.
Joining of Large Agencies Drives the Rise of Bitcoin Market
In addition to the above reasons, the gradually increased interest on digital currency from the large institutions serves as another factor driving the future rise of Bitcoin.
In February 2019, JP Morgan Chase & Co., the largest financial services organization in the United States, launched JPM Coin, a cryptocurrency used for instant settlement of payment transactions between customers.
In March, Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS), the digital asset trading and custody arm of the Fidelity Group, which manages the world's trillions of dollars, was launched.
On June 18, the Testnet of the cryptocurrency Libra, which was created by the global social networking giant Facebook, was launched on GitHub, and the White Paper was also released. Though Libra was opposed by the United States Senate later, it proves how influential the digital currency is.
On September 23, Bakkt, a digital currency trading platform created by the US Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), was officially launched. Although the transaction was bleak at the beginning, Bakkt's "physical delivery" approach will become a more preferred trading platform for institutions and large capital holders.
It is predictable that with the increasing scope of the digital asset recognition, more traditional financial giants will join the cryptocurrency realm and launch their featured products. Of course, the higher the attention of Bitcoin got from the global financial giants, the higher its price will be.
Bitcoin may not be the "rich creator" as it was several years ago, however, there is no doubt that the Bitcoin price will rise steadily over time with the relaxation of regulation, the rival between institutions, and the construction of the industry infrastructure, making bitcoin more close to digital gold.
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Make money just by working on your computer: the rise of electronic currencies, in the wake of bitcoin, can be a little dream, especially in times of crisis. We tried the experiment. Wealth at your fingertips? Not for everybody.
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We have known at least since March 2013, with the soaring Bitcoin (BTC) price during the closing of Cypriot banks: electronic currencies, it has not much virtual. Since the creation of the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto serves as a safe haven, a playground for speculators, interests the States and even makes it possible to pay for his trip to the space where his beer, bigger world would dare to pretend that it only serves to buy prohibited substances on SilkRoad - if it ever was.
At the end of November, James Howells was mocked a lot, this Brit, caught in a household frenzy, inadvertently threw a hard disk containing 7,500 bitcoins, the equivalent of 4.8 million euros. A small fortune now lost in the depths of the Docksway dump near Newport. Nevertheless, before causing the consternation of the global Internet, Jamie still had the nose to undermine the BTC at a time when the experience mobilized a handful of hardcore geeks.
Since the rise (sawtooth) bitcoin, each unit currently weighs more than 800 dollars, nearly thirty cryptocurrencies have emerged. Is it possible, this year again, to let this promising, volatile and risky train pass, or to fall into
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News by Coindesk: Max Boonen
Carrying on from an earlier post about the evolution of high frequency trading (HFT), how it can harm markets and how crypto exchanges are responding, here we focus on the potential longer-term impact on the crypto ecosystem.
First, though, we need to focus on the state of HFT in a broader context.
Conventional markets are adopting anti-latency arbitrage mechanismsIn conventional markets, latency arbitrage has increased toxicity on lit venues and pushed trading volumes over-the-counter or into dark pools. In Europe, dark liquidity has increased in spite of efforts by regulators to clamp down on it. In some markets, regulation has actually contributed to this. Per the SEC:
"Using the Nasdaq market as a proxy, [Regulation] NMS did not seem to succeed in its mission to increase the display of limit orders in the marketplace. We have seen an increase in dark liquidity, smaller trade sizes, similar trading volumes, and a larger number of "small" venues."Why is non-lit execution remaining or becoming more successful in spite of its lower transparency? In its 2014 paper, BlackRock came out in favour of dark pools in the context of best execution requirements. It also lamented message congestion and cautioned against increasing tick sizes, features that advantage latency arbitrageurs. (This echoes the comment to CoinDesk of David Weisberger, CEO of Coinroutes, who explained that the tick sizes typical of the crypto market are small and therefore do not put slower traders at much of a disadvantage.)
Major venues now recognize that the speed race threatens their business model in some markets, as it pushes those "slow" market makers with risk-absorbing capacity to provide liquidity to the likes of BlackRock off-exchange. Eurex has responded by implementing anti-latency arbitrage (ALA) mechanisms in options:
"Right now, a lot of liquidity providers need to invest more into technology in order to protect themselves against other, very fast liquidity providers, than they can invest in their pricing for the end client. The end result of this is a certain imbalance, where we have a few very sophisticated liquidity providers that are very active in the order book and then a lot of liquidity providers that have the ability to provide prices to end clients, but are tending to do so more away from the order book", commented Jonas Ullmann, Eurex's head of market functionality. Such views are increasingly supported by academic research.
XTX identifies two categories of ALA mechanisms: policy-based and technology-based. Policy-based ALA refers to a venue simply deciding that latency arbitrageurs are not allowed to trade on it. Alternative venues to exchanges (going under various acronyms such as ECN, ATS or MTF) can allow traders to either take or make, but not engage in both activities. Others can purposefully select — and advertise — their mix of market participants, or allow users to trade in separate "rooms" where undesired firms are excluded. The rise of "alternative microstructures" is mostly evidenced in crypto by the surge in electronic OTC trading, where traders can receive better prices than on exchange.
Technology-based ALA encompasses delays, random or deterministic, added to an exchange's matching engine to reduce the viability of latency arbitrage strategies. The classic example is a speed bump where new orders are delayed by a few milliseconds, but the cancellation of existing orders is not. This lets market makers place fresh quotes at the new prevailing market price without being run over by latency arbitrageurs.
As a practical example, the London Metal Exchange recently announced an eight-millisecond speed bump on some contracts that are prime candidates for latency arbitrageurs due to their similarity to products trading on the much bigger CME in Chicago.
Why 8 milliseconds? First, microwave transmission between Chicago and the US East Coast is 3 milliseconds faster than fibre optic lines. From there, the $250,000 a month Hibernia Express transatlantic cable helps you get to London another 4 milliseconds faster than cheaper alternatives. Add a millisecond for internal latencies such as not using FPGAs and 8 milliseconds is the difference for a liquidity provider between investing tens of millions in speed technology or being priced out of the market by latency arbitrage.
With this in mind, let's consider what the future holds for crypto.
Crypto exchanges must not forget their retail rootsWe learn from conventional markets that liquidity benefits from a diverse base of market makers with risk-absorption capacity.
Some have claimed that the spread compression witnessed in the bitcoin market since 2017 is due to electronification. Instead, I posit that it is greater risk-absorbing capacity and capital allocation that has improved the liquidity of the bitcoin market, not an increase in speed, as in fact being a fast exchange with colocation such as Gemini has not supported higher volumes. Old-timers will remember Coinsetter, a company that, per the Bitcoin Wiki , "was created in 2012, and operates a bitcoin exchange and ECN. Coinsetter's CSX trading technology enables millisecond trade execution times and offers one of the fastest API data streams in the industry." The Wiki page should use the past tense as Coinsetter failed to gain traction, was acquired in 2016 and subsequently closed.
Exchanges that invest in scalability and user experience will thrive (BitMEX comes to mind). Crypto exchanges that favour the fastest traders (by reducing jitter, etc.) will find that winner-takes-all latency strategies do not improve liquidity. Furthermore, they risk antagonising the majority of their users, who are naturally suspicious of platforms that sell preferential treatment.
It is baffling that the head of Russia for Huobi vaunted to CoinDesk that: "The option [of co-location] allows [selected clients] to make trades 70 to 100 times faster than other users". The article notes that Huobi doesn't charge — but of course, not everyone can sign up.
Contrast this with one of the most successful exchanges today: Binance. It actively discourages some HFT strategies by tracking metrics such as order-to-trade ratios and temporarily blocking users that breach certain limits. Market experts know that Binance remains extremely relevant to price discovery, irrespective of its focus on a less professional user base.
Other exchanges, take heed.
Coinbase closed its entire Chicago office where 30 engineers had worked on a faster matching engine, an exercise that is rumoured to have cost $50mm. After much internal debate, I bet that the company finally realised that it wouldn't recoup its investment and that its value derived from having onboarded 20 million users, not from upgrading systems that are already fast and reliable by the standards of crypto.
It is also unsurprising that Kraken's Steve Hunt, a veteran of low-latency torchbearer Jump Trading, commented to CoinDesk that: "We want all customers regardless of size or scale to have equal access to our marketplace". Experience speaks.
In a recent article on CoinDesk , Matt Trudeau of ErisX points to the lower reliability of cloud-based services compared to dedicated, co-located and cross-connected gateways. That much is true. Web-based technology puts the emphasis on serving the greatest number of users concurrently, not on serving a subset of users deterministically and at the lowest latency possible. That is the point. Crypto might be the only asset class that is accessible directly to end users with a low number of intermediaries, precisely because of the crypto ethos and how the industry evolved. It is cheaper to buy $500 of bitcoin than it is to buy $500 of Microsoft shares.
Trudeau further remarks that official, paid-for co-location is better than what he pejoratively calls "unsanctioned colocation," the fact that crypto traders can place their servers in the same cloud providers as the exchanges. The fairness argument is dubious: anyone with $50 can set up an Amazon AWS account and run next to the major crypto exchanges, whereas cheap co-location starts at $1,000 a month in the real world. No wonder "speed technology revenues" are estimated at $1 billion for the major U.S. equity exchanges.
For a crypto exchange, to reside in a financial, non-cloud data centre with state-of-the-art network latencies might ironically impair the likelihood of success. The risk is that such an exchange becomes dominated on the taker side by the handful of players that already own or pay for the fastest communication routes between major financial data centres such as Equinix and the CME in Chicago, where bitcoin futures are traded. This might reduce liquidity on the exchange because a significant proportion of the crypto market's risk-absorption capacity is coming from crypto-centric funds that do not have the scale to operate low-latency strategies, but might make up the bulk of the liquidity on, say, Binance. Such mom-and-pop liquidity providers might therefore shun an exchange that caters to larger players as a priority.
Exchanges risk losing market share to OTC liquidity providersWhile voice trading in crypto has run its course, a major contribution to the market's increase in liquidity circa 2017–2018 was the risk appetite of the original OTC voice desks such as Cumberland Mining and Circle.
Automation really shines in bringing together risk-absorbing capacity tailored to each client (which is impossible on anonymous exchanges) with seamless electronic execution. In contrast, latency-sensitive venues can see liquidity evaporate in periods of stress, as happened to a well-known and otherwise successful exchange on 26 June which saw its bitcoin order book become $1,000 wide for an extended period of time as liquidity providers turned their systems off. The problem is compounded by the general unavailability of credit on cash exchanges, an issue that the OTC market's settlement model avoids.
As the crypto market matures, the business model of today's major cash exchanges will come under pressure. In the past decade, the FX market has shown that retail traders benefit from better liquidity when they trade through different channels than institutional speculators. Systematic internalizers demonstrate the same in equities. This fact of life will apply to crypto. Exchanges have to pick a side: either cater to retail (or retail-driven intermediaries) or court HFTs.
Now that an aggregator like Tagomi runs transaction cost analysis for their clients, it will become plainly obvious to investors with medium-term and long-term horizons (i.e. anyone not looking at the next 2 seconds) that their price impact on exchange is worse than against electronic OTC liquidity providers.
Today, exchange fee structures are awkward because they must charge small users a lot to make up for crypto's exceptionally high compliance and onboarding costs. Onboarding a single, small value user simply does not make sense unless fees are quite elevated. Exchanges end up over-charging large volume traders such as B2C2's clients, another incentive to switch to OTC execution.
In the alternative, what if crypto exchanges focus on HFT traders? In my opinion, the CME is a much better venue for institutional takers as fees are much lower and conventional trading firms will already be connected to it. My hypothesis is that most exchanges will not be able to compete with the CME for fast traders (after all, the CBOE itself gave up), and must cater to their retail user base instead.
In a future post, we will explore other microstructures beyond all-to-all exchanges and bilateral OTC trading.
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Last weekend I ran the Brazen Racing Summit Rock Half Marathon at Sanborn County Park outside of Saratoga, but before I get to that report, here is a report from another Brazen event I did a couple months agao, the Brazen Racing Rocky Ridge Half Marathon Championships at beautiful Las Trampas Regional Wilderness outside of San Ramon. The Rocky Ridge course is known as the most difficult of the Brazen series. The half marathon course was actually about 13.75 miles long and featured nearly 4,000 of elevation gain. Some of the ascents along the way are some of the steepest inclines I have ever run and one half mile climb in particular about half way through is affectionately known as "The Wall"! All the climbing and terrain made this a true mountain course and it would be idyllic for a mountain running championship venue.
Due to a prize purse being offered, I suspected some fast runners would show up, and indeed, one of the fastest road runners in the nation, Sergio Reyes toed the starting line. At the start I settled in near the front and tried to be as comfortable as possible entering the first major hill. At the first ultra steep ascent Sergio asserted himself and took the lead charging up the steep in good form with me in pursuit. It seemed as if he might run away with it from the start, but I caught up at the high point near Las Trampas Peak. On the downhill portion, Ivan Medina blew past both of us and continued to push an incredibly fast pace with Sergio in tow that I could not sustain. I would not see either of them until near the end of the large loop about three quarters of the way through, but I maintained a good pace and ran the entire way up the Wall. As I started the descent back to the parking area I could see Sergio far ahead and Ivan a minute or so back from Sergio.
Immediately upon beginning the last major climb of the course I began catching up to Ivan and eventually overtook him about half way up the climb. I was closing in on Sergio and by the time we reached the top of the hill I was only about 20 seconds back. However, from this point onward, the course was mainly downhill and I was unable to close the gap between us completely. Sergio finished in 1:37:55, 12 seconds ahead of my 1:38:07. I was proud of my performance and the strong finish!
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If you're throwing a Halloween party for your child and his or her friends, check out these tips to make your party fun and unique.
Ceiling Spider:
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A quick and easy outdoor Halloween decoration is a ghost. Just grab a sheet, coat rack and helmet and assemble your ghost's body, head and outer covering in your yard.
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Five years after economic collapse, many still struggle
ROCKFORD — David Frueh was in his fourth year working at Alcoa in Beloit, Wis., in 2008 when he started to get a bad feeling.
"You could see the signs that something was coming," said the 37-year-old who lives in Rockford. "I kept hearing about the problems in the banking industry and the housing industry."
Workers at the Alcoa plant made aluminum wheels for the auto industry, and the Great Recession hit automakers hard. In 2009, auto dealers would go on to sell their fewest new vehicles since 1982.
Faced with a sudden lack of orders, Alcoa officials announced plans in December 2008 to shut the plant down in the spring, putting about 250 out of work.
"There wasn't much to say," Frueh said. "I just went to work. And when my last day came, I shook some hands and said 'good luck'."
Frueh hit the job market, as did thousands of other newly unemployed. In October, November and December 2008, Anderson Packaging, Bergstrom, Greenlee Textron, United Way of Rock River Valley, the YMCA and a host of other companies or organizations announced layoffs.
At least those organizations stayed open. Kable News in Mount Morris, Sonoco in Rockton, Modern Metal Products in Loves Park, and Unison, PacSci Motion Control and Northern Illinois Hospital Services in Rockford announced plant closings.
According to state estimates, the number of people working in Boone and Winnebago counties hit a record 169,154 in June 2007. By January 2010, it plummeted to 140,685.
Frueh didn't find work of any kind for three months. Then he went to work for minimum wage for a furniture retailer for about a year.
The circumstances weighed on him. He went through a divorce and worried how would he provide for his three children.
Finally, he was hired by Southern Imperial, a Rockford company that makes hooks and dividers and label holders for retailers. He has been working in shipping and receiving for three years and likes the job, but he still doesn't earn the kind of money he made at Alcoa.
"It's been a big difference in lifestyle, but it is what it is. What I've learned from this is to just be grateful for what you got. Don't be greedy."
Frueh, who has remarried, is fortunate to have found work.
Job growth during the not-so-great recovery from the Great Recession has been extremely sluggish. According to state estimates, 144,505 people were working locally in August, meaning that the region has regained 3,820 jobs since the economy bottomed out in January 2010.
"You hear economists talk about a V-shaped recovery," said Bob Evans, head of the economics, business and accounting department at Rockford University. "That means jobs go down quickly and then come back quickly. This has been an L-shaped recovery. This was the most damaging recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s, and it's going to take years to recover."
A variety of factors, from increased productivity to lack of sufficient investment from the private and public sectors, have played a part.
"We also keep suffering these shocks, some self-inflicted," he said. "It seems like every few months we have a crisis, whether it be in Europe, with Greece, or the fights over sequestration cuts, the debt ceiling or the government shutdown.
"Business owners hate uncertainty, and we keep having these events that convince them to hold off a little longer before hiring."
Glenn Lego is one of the people left in the lurch.
He worked at PacSci Motion Control in Rockford for 30 years in the receiving department and was laid off in July 2008. In October 2008, PacSci's parent announced that it would move production of precision motors to one of its plants in California.
"At first, I really didn't know what to do with myself," the 66-year-old said. "I used to take walks downtown just to clear my head, and I'd look down in that river ... and at times it looked awfully tempting."
Lego signed up for job-search help from the Northern Illinois Area on Aging, which got him a job in the resource room of the state unemployment office. It was a two-year temporary contract to help him get by until he found a long-term job.
The long-term job never materialized.
"I'm basically retired. I tried my darndest to find a job, but I never even got an interview," said Lego, who receives Social Security and a pension from Veterans Affairs.
That's not unusual. Money magazine ran the story "Workers over 50 are the new 'unemployables'" in February. It was based on a 2012 Urban Institute study that said older workers were less likely to lose their jobs during the recession, but the ones who did were 20 percent less likely than 25- to 34-year-olds to become re-employed.
That's how it played out in Lego's family. His daughter, Melissa, also worked at PacSci Motion Control. The 30-year-old was hired by Bergstrom about a year ago.
Lego, though, has only received form letters in response to the resumes he has sent to employers.
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True-crime books make great cold-weather reading – and great holiday gifts – because they make us feel safe. Reading these accounts of crazed psychopaths who went on rampages and seemingly normal suburbanites with lethal secrets, we shiver and think: At least I'm not trapped in a Cape Cod kitchen with a knife-wielding murderer. At least I'm not on a beach with Joran Van Der Sloot. Wherever we are suddenly feels like a blissful refuge – for a little while, at least. But the further you get into almost any true-crime book, the more you realize that the madness and mayhem leaping from its pages could easily happen to you. A Harvard-educated professor goes postal with a Ruger. A child vanishes from a bus stop. The respected commander of Canada's largest military base prowls and murders at night. Safety is a relative thing.
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A Professor's Rage, by Michele R. McPhee (St. Martin's, 2011): As the smart young daughter of caring parents, Amy Bishop appeared to have everything. Yet at age 21 she slew her younger brother with a pump-action shotgun. His death was ruled an accident – even though, after the shooting, "Amy fled from the scene with her coat on." As a Harvard-trained University of Alabama biology professor, Bishop still appeared to have everything. Yet after being denied tenure last year, she whipped out a 9mm Ruger during a staff meeting and shot six people, killing three. McPhee delivers an emotional account of a human time bomb whose lethal nature was spotted – but unheeded – long ago.
Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen, by Peter Manso (Atria, 2011): Having left behind the glitz and dazzle of her life as a Manhattan fashion journalist, Christa Worthington settled in serene Cape Cod. That serenity shattered when 46-year-old Worthington was found stabbed to death in her quaint kitchen in 2002. At first, much was made of Worthington's past relationships with many men. But after a trial that Manso recounts in painstaking detail, trash collector Chris McCowen was convicted of first-degree murder. Manso believes this to be a massive miscarriage of justice; the African-American suspect had an IQ of only 76, and "race was the very armature of the McCowen verdict."
A Stolen Life: A Memoir, by Jaycee Dugard (Simon & Schuster, 2011): Abducted by pedophile Phillip Garrido and his accomplice/wife Nancy at a bus stop in idyllic Lake Tahoe, California, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard went directly, in the space of one day, from heaven to hell. Your heart will have already broken by the time Dugard describes how, during her first encounter with Garrido, "I didn't want to touch his private part." She recounts her subsequent 20 years of captivity in scenes that are graphic and thus, for her, no doubt cathartic. In sunny suburbia, an ordinary girl-next-door was transformed into chattel, bearing two babies by a man who vowed to never let her go.
Portrait of a Monster: Joran Van Der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery, by Lisa Pulitzer and Cole Thompson (St. Martin's, 2011): The title says it all. Upper-class young Dutchman Van Der Sloot was the prime suspect in a notorious missing-persons case: the 2005 disappearance, during a school trip to Aruba, of American teen Natalee Holloway. Never formally charged, Van Der Sloot remained free until his 2005 arrest in Peru for the murder of fellow business student Stephany Flores. Cutting back and forth in time between these two crimes, Pulitzer and Thompson trace the many lies of a heartless sociopath.
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, by Sam Brower (Bloomsbury, 2011): A Utah private investigator who is also a Mormon, Brower worked for years helping people who had left FLDS, a sect whose practices included polygamy, statutory rape and much more. This eminently readable page-turner details Brower's pursuit of FLDS "prophet" Warren Jeffs. When cops used a battering ram to enter Warren's compound, "the men of the church collapsed like marionettes whose strings had been cut. Some dropped to their knees in disbelief, others fell prone and scrabbled in the dirt, and still others stood sobbing like children with their faces buried in their hands."
Chili Pimping in Atlantic City: The Memoir of a Small-Time Pimp and Hustler, by Michael "Mick-Man" Gourdine, aka Candy Man (Strategic Media Books, 2011): "Pimps sure know how to work magic," Gourdine writes. "If they can make a man go from feeling like a king to feeling like a slave in a few minutes, imagine what they can do for a woman." Ever wondered, while watching prostitutes walk the streets, where they go when their work shifts are over and what they talk about among themselves? Gourdine, who was not only a pimp but also a corrupt vice cop who claims to have netted up to $3 million from bribes, drugs and other criminal activities while in uniform, tells all in this blow-by-blow memoir.
From Crime Scene to Courtroom: Examining the Mysteries Behind Famous Cases, by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D. and Dawna Kaufman (Prometheus Books, 2011): Noted forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril H. Wecht and crime reporter Dawna Kaufman present new, well-reasoned revelations about the deaths of Michael Jackson and Caylee Anthony, plus five other high-profile cases involving USAF Colonel Philip Michael Shue, Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones, Bolingbroke, Ill., police Sergeant Drew Peterson, 12-year-old Gabriella Miranda Bechen of Greensboro, Pa., and Carol Anne Gorbaum, who died in a police holding cell at the Phoenix Airport in 2007 while en route to a rehab center in Cottonwood de Tucson, Ariz.
Camouflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams, by David A. Gibb (Berkley Books, 2011): By day, Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base; by night he stalked single women, breaking into their homes, blindfolding them, and assaulting them for hours, filming away as he did. David Gibb, a veteran private investigator, uses the films to recount in massive detail the colonel's deviant second life. What began as a bizarre fetish for collecting women's undergarments eventually escalated to the rape and murder of two women before the police finally honed in on this most improbable psychopath.


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My inner Pollyanna was basking in blissfulness, rolling in the hay of righteous rhetoric, backstroking through the sunny sibilance of aspiration.
Drunk, apparently, on alliteration.
It was a perfect day. Cold but not freezing. Crowded but not crushing. A diverse people celebrating yet another historic day in the nation's capital.
In one poignant moment, he paused while re-entering the Capitol and turned for a last look at his kingdom and subjects: "I want to take a look one more time," said President Barack Obama. "I'm not going to see this again."
OK, fine, he's not king and voters are not subjects. At least not yet. But it must have felt that way, especially having just delivered an inaugural address that informed the nation that things are about to change, royally.
Bipartisanship brunches notwithstanding, there was no hint in Obama's words that he was interested in chatting up his political opposition over common ground. When he turned to bid farewell to a memory, he might as well have been bidding farewell to his former self — the conciliatory politician who once declared that there is no red America nor a blue America.
"Sayonara, suckers. You'll never see that guy again."
Obama may have entered the presidency hoping to bring an end to partisanship, but he entertains no such fantasies now. As he once told a handful of reporters on Air Force One, "I'm no patsy."
Confident and experienced in his second term, Obama has become fully himself. Which is not to say that I disagree with everything or even most of what he said — at least thematically. Who isn't for justice, equality, love, climate stability and peace in our time? Sign me up.
Confession: With speeches as with movies, I'm not much of an instant critic. I don't watch a movie; I enter it. I want to lose myself, to feel what the actor feels, to experience the world as he does. I check my snark at the door.
Thus, Pollyanna saw the inauguration this way: Obama, the first black president entering a second term on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, seized the moment and left perfect storms whimpering in envy. Expansive in his vision of a United States, bound by common purpose and the belief that all men and women are created equal, he reiterated the Great American Truth: That every man and women has an inalienable right to pursue happiness and prosperity on a level playing field, equal in all ways under all laws.
Sing it! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. … His truth is marching on!
Then he said: "We have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."
Yes, yes, yes! I'll have what he's having. I'll go sleeveless in winter and cut my bangs! Of course we change when necessary. And of course we have to work to keep those truths … truthful.
Then along comes little Miss Monday Morning, who always begins her sentences with, "Yes, but." What does this mean, substantively? Ah:
"The commitments we make to each other through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security — these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
Loose translation: Entitlement reform will not be topping the president's second-term agenda. What it means beyond this is any palm reader's guess.
We understand that we're not a nation of takers (as Paul Ryan once regrettably put it), but how entitlement programs that far exceed our ability to pay for them "free us to take the risks that make this country great" is gobbledygook of the first order. It reeks of caffeine and the smug satisfaction familiar to all writers, who, upon crafting a sentence that is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, ignore the editor's imperative: Delete, delete, delete. Or as I prefer to put it, kill your little darlings.
What it all really means, of course, is that Barack Obama has been liberated by a second term, free to take risks that he hopes will make his legacy great. This is his moment, his emancipation proclamation, his hinge point of history — and there's no looking back now.
Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist. Contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Constantine girl's basketball team fell to visiting Schoolcraft on Thursday night, 51-22.
Constantine held a lead early in the game and held an 8-6 advantage after the first quarter of action.
In the second quarter the Lady Eagles out-scored Constantine 18-0 and led 26-8 at halftime.
Schoolcraft held a 12-5 edge in the third and a 15-9 advantage in the fourth quarter to pick up the win.
There was not a single player in double figures for either team.
Constantine was led by Heavin King's six points while Makayla Parsons chipped in with five points.
Emily Schrock tossed in four points while Michelle Smith, Chelsea Howe and Monica Chupp each had two points and Emily Bowers hit a free throw.
Smith had 10 rebounds while Amber Anderson pulled down six boards.
Constantine will take on White Pigeon in the team's next game.
In the boy's contest, Schoolcraft picked up a 64-12 win over the Falcons.
Schoolcraft opened up the game connecting on their shots and forcing Constantine into turnovers. The Eagles led 18-3 after the first eight minutes.
Schoolcraft was able to lengthen their lead in the second quarter. The Eagles connected for 24 points, their highest-scoring quarter, and held Constantine to just six points and led 42-9 at the break.
A 15-3 advantage in the third and a 7-0 advantage in the fourth gave the Eagles the win.
Constantine shot 3-of-22 from the 3-point land and 1-of-14 from inside the arc.
Luhk Mullendore led with six points while Justin Bontrager had three, Cody Ley had two and Mike Harris had one point.
Luke Ryskamp led Schoolcraft with 19.
Three Rivers 44, Plainwell 39 (girls)
The Three Rivers girl's basketball team picked up a close 44-39 win over Plainwell Thursday.
Teagan Reeves led the Lady Cats with 15 points and 13 rebounds in the win.
The Lady Cats led 11-4 after one quarter of action and held a seven point lead at halftime, 26-19.
Three Rivers held an 11-10 advantage in the third and held off Plainwell in the fourth.
Linsey Masnari chipped in with 10 points while Clautia Pou added eight, Marissa Wyngarden had six and Kimmy Sibert added five.
White Pigeon 50, Buchanan 47 (boys)
On Wednesday, the White Pigeon boy's basketball team beat Buchanan 50-47 on the road.
"What a time to see a team come together, believe in one another, trust in the offense and execute at both ends of the floor," Chiefs coach Tony Cholometes said. "This was a changing win so far as this team goes."
The Chiefs led early, holding Buchanan to just two points in the first quarter and leading 10-2. Cholometes' team continued to work hard in the second, battling to score 16 points while Buchanan tossed in 14 — their highest scoring quarter.
"For the first time this season, this team played focused, total team, total commitment basketball," Cholometes said. "I am very proud of these young men."
White Pigeon led 39-34 heading into the fourth quarter.
Leading the way was Robbie Gibson with 15 points, five rebounds and two assists while Matt Eger chipped in with 14 points, five rebounds and two assists. Matt Crowl had 12 points and 11 rebounds with three blocks. Adding seven points was Mitchell Moore while Branson Salyer added two.
White Pigeon plays host to Mendon tonight.
Glen Oaks women fall
The Glen Oaks women's basketball team fell 68-55 to Muskegon Community College on Wednesday.
"We defended well all game," coach Joel Schroeder said. "We just couldn't make an offensive play down the stretch. I am proud of the girls, they played hard."
Leading Glen Oaks in scoring was Jessica Mathews with 18 points.
Alaina Schwarz chipped in with 13 points while Tiffany Zito tossed in 12 points.
Lizzy Brothers had eight points while Madison Pellow and Renee Marcum each had two.


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