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sr. member
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Sovryn - 300-500% APY on USDT Deposit
August 22, 2014, 07:56:18 PM
they make a lot of money from the fees
but idk how much money is needed for running their service
hero member
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August 22, 2014, 07:02:53 PM
MCXNow, Crypsy, BTCT, BTC-E?

I'm conducting a survey to determine the actual profitability of the popular exchanges.

Does anyone have any idea of what the volume is for these exchanges? What these exchanges make weekly or monthly and how we could find out?





The easiest way to figure this out is look at their 24 hour trade volumes. you can see they take a .2% fee.

so take all of the USD or all of the BTC or whatever, add it all up, multiply by .002 and thats how much they made in a 24 hour period.
This will only get your their gross revenue. You still need to take their operating expenses into consideration. Things like hosting, security and salary for their staff are far from cheap and will likely eat up a good portion of their revenues.
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August 20, 2014, 03:18:16 PM
Very profitable and i am planning to get my own.
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★YoBit.Net★ 350+ Coins Exchange & Dice
August 20, 2014, 01:27:36 PM
MCXNow, Crypsy, BTCT, BTC-E?

I'm conducting a survey to determine the actual profitability of the popular exchanges.

Does anyone have any idea of what the volume is for these exchanges? What these exchanges make weekly or monthly and how we could find out?




You have quote the big boys in the crypto industries leaving poloniex behind, they all feed on us. They make on imaginable amount of money based on the volume of trade.
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August 20, 2014, 08:24:35 AM
Reputable exchangers can take advantage of trust by their fee. I feel its clear scamming.

what exactly is scamming about this is you take a fee (often a very small one) for
providing a service to other people?

Right.

There is cost involved in providing a place for buyer and seller to meet. And complying with all the crazy AML rules.
sr. member
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August 19, 2014, 10:24:08 AM
Reputable exchangers can take advantage of trust by their fee. I feel its clear scamming.

what exactly is scamming about this is you take a fee (often a very small one) for
providing a service to other people?
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August 19, 2014, 09:26:34 AM
Reputable exchangers can take advantage of trust by their fee. I feel its clear scamming.
hero member
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August 19, 2014, 09:25:37 AM
MCXNow, Crypsy, BTCT, BTC-E?

I'm conducting a survey to determine the actual profitability of the popular exchanges.

Does anyone have any idea of what the volume is for these exchanges? What these exchanges make weekly or monthly and how we could find out?





The easiest way to figure this out is look at their 24 hour trade volumes. you can see they take a .2% fee.

so take all of the USD or all of the BTC or whatever, add it all up, multiply by .002 and thats how much they made in a 24 hour period.
hero member
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August 19, 2014, 09:10:42 AM
If everyone withdraws the money from the exchange, what would happen?

If the exchange is honest, nothing special.   Trading would stop of course and the exchange would stop collecting fees.

If the exchange is dishonest, they may have invested some of the clients' money into stock, Ferraris, caviar, strip dancers... then the exchange may be unable to satisfy all withdrawals and then will be forced into bankruptcy.
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August 19, 2014, 08:50:48 AM
Big fees means bigger profit. But this makes customers avoid you.

Another step sites take is to limit minimum amount of transaction which can be exchanged.
hero member
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August 19, 2014, 05:26:02 AM
If everyone withdrawals the money from the exchange, what would happened?
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August 19, 2014, 03:23:13 AM
If I had a team of dedicated developers who had a strong background in security, I would definitly look into making a secure and open exchange. Flat fees based on percantages sound extremely profitable one large volumes of coins are

Just put 90% of the coin on cold storage if you run an exchange. No one will be able to steal it.
sr. member
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August 19, 2014, 12:47:29 AM
If I had a team of dedicated developers who had a strong background in security, I would definitly look into making a secure and open exchange. Flat fees based on percantages sound extremely profitable one large volumes of coins are
But wouldn't this cost a lot of money? Do you think that your trading fees and other fees would compensate for the cost of paying your devs and security? I personally do not think so.
sr. member
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August 17, 2014, 03:29:12 PM
If I had a team of dedicated developers who had a strong background in security, I would definitly look into making a secure and open exchange. Flat fees based on percantages sound extremely profitable one large volumes of coins are
legendary
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Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
August 17, 2014, 03:26:55 PM
now bittrex is one of the most profitable
some btcs a day
around 50 btcs month
highly profitable I think

you should have looked before, the profit was to the moon literally, high volume for every coin made, now there just chip
legendary
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August 17, 2014, 12:53:18 PM
I think  ;)A good exchange is very profitabel

If you take btc-e for example, with multi million dollars turnarounds daily, and 0,2% fees, it is not that hard to see that its highly profitable.
There are some other things one should also be aware of, like the amount of security and maintenence that is needed to run such high volume operation.
I wonder how they keep their relations with banks, since bitcoin is still considered a gray area.
You need to understand that the numbers you are quoting are only the exchanges' revenues. They must still pay their expenses which are far from free. I don't think btc-e spends a lot on compliance costs, but they probably spend some non-zero amount. They have to pay for their servers and internet so people can access their site. They need to pay people to maintain their site and for security. All these add up and are probably a lot.
legendary
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Satoshi is rolling in his grave. #bitcoin
August 17, 2014, 07:27:39 AM
Very profitable.

Bter just paid a hacker 440 btc to return 42M NXT coin rather than just close down the business and declare bankruptcy.



In what way were the coins stolen in the first place?
Never considered bter for an exchange that would be able to pay such an amount.
Well there you have it, if you want to get rich, just open up and exchange Tongue
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August 17, 2014, 07:08:44 AM
Very profitable.

Bter just paid a hacker 440 btc to return 42M NXT coin rather than just close down the business and declare bankruptcy.

legendary
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Satoshi is rolling in his grave. #bitcoin
August 17, 2014, 06:27:53 AM
I think  ;)A good exchange is very profitabel

If you take btc-e for example, with multi million dollars turnarounds daily, and 0,2% fees, it is not that hard to see that its highly profitable.
There are some other things one should also be aware of, like the amount of security and maintenence that is needed to run such high volume operation.
I wonder how they keep their relations with banks, since bitcoin is still considered a gray area.
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August 17, 2014, 12:54:11 AM
they are surely less profitable now, but usually they are the most profitable thing, between fee/voting and other stuff, they earn lots of btc per day, but you need a good employers with security internet study ecc....
I think that the altcoin exchanges likely make a lot of money from coin voting "fees"....I really think that is almost a genius idea to have people "vote" to have additional coins supported on their exchanges with their money. I would think that it usually costs next to nothing to have an additional coin supported by the exchange and the exchange could protect themselves by mandating that a higher number of confirms is needed for coins that are less secure.
I was shocked the first time that I saw this on cryptsy. If I had guess I would say that a lot of the altcoin hypers will spend a lot on "voting" on exchanges for their altcoin to be accepted.
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