Bank of Canada Research: Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Doesn't Exist
A new working paper from Canada's central bank has found little evidence that arbitrage opportunities in cryptocurrency markets exist. The paper, Competition in the Cryptocurrency Market, analyses 10 months of publicly available data from exchanges like BTC-e and Cryptsy, from May 2013 to February 2014. Examining how 'network effects' (the phenomenon of new users augmenting the value of a technology) affect competition in the cryptocurrency economy, the paper looks at competition between both cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency exchanges. The authors write: "For exchanges, we find little....
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