The title is something I've been wondering about for a while now. I'll take Forkcoin
Bitcoin Diamond as an example, and then take Binance and Gate.io as examples.
At Binance, Bitcoin Diamond trades around $43. At Gate.io, it trades at $6.
Binance doesn't allow deposits and withdrawals, Gate.io allows it.
I understand why people would want to
sell their Forkcoin at Binance: if they do, they can instantly buy 7 times more back at Gate.io! I can even imagine the exchange owner can buy Bitcoin Diamond at the other exchange, to sell it at his own exchange for a 7 times higher price.
What I don't get, is why anybody would
buy it at Binance. You can't even withdraw them! It's like you can go to a shoe store, you can buy shoes for 100$, and you can take them home. But instead of doing that, you buy the same shoes for 700$, at a different store, that doesn't allow you to take them home! Why would anyone do that? Is it really just speculation ignoring arbitrage?
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All my threads are now self-moderated to stop signature spam. I will remove all irrelevant posts.Its pure selfishness and this is a further manipulation of price which wouldn't happen in a sane or regulated system and my grouse is with both Binance and Gate.io based on your analogy and I equally smell some amount of collision between the two.
For Binance, how do they even determine the price when there is no movement in ways to either deposit or withdraw? Because that is what determine the price of any coin but without this and they are having such high amount as trade value then its price fixing not backed up by demand and supply.
For Gate.io, there is also an element of price fixing because on a good day the price of a particular coin on a particular exchange should be relative close to others but with over 700% margin then human factor have been involved beyond demand and supply.
For those trading on the two platforms, a lot of people are ruled by the greed that since its a form of free money, let me dump at whatever price couple with 1:10 amount that its being claimed. They are then less bother about the unholy practice in the system.