Bitcoin Price Surges Past $2,070 in South Korea, Arbitrage Opportunity?
As of May 12, bitcoin price in the South Korean exchange market is $2,076, approximately 12.7 percent higher than that of the global average price. To be exact, bitcoin is being traded on South Korean exchanges and trading platforms at a price that is $269 higher than the global average price of $1,807. Ever since the debut of venture capital backed and regulated bitcoin exchanges including Korbit and Bithumb, the South Korean bitcoin exchange has presented excellent arbitrage opportunities for traders. South Korean bitcoin exchange have always demonstrated a high premium on their listed....
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Bitcoin price reached $2,850 in South Korea on May 23, due to the rapidly rising demand for Bitcoin and other digital currencies such as Ethereum’s Ether (ETH). While arbitrage opportunities in South Korea always existed since the launch of Korbit, Coinone and Coinhumb, the three leading Bitcoin exchanges in the country, the premium rate rarely went past 10 percent. On May 23, the premium rate on South Korean Bitcoin exchanges nearly reached 30 percent, demonstrating a trading value of $2,850 for Bitcoin, while Bitcoin was being traded in the US and China for around $2,100. The driving....
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Japan and South Korea, the third and fourth largest bitcoin exchange markets, have seen premium prices ever since the launch of local bitcoin exchanges and markets. Analysts suggest that such arbitrage opportunities exist in Asia’s largest bitcoin exchange markets due to the two countries’ strict Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies. Ever since the launch of major bitcoin exchange backed by some of the country’s largest multi-billion dollar conglomerates, the South Korean bitcoin exchange market has demonstrated a premium rate of around 15 percent in comparison to other major markets such....
“If the prices on South Korean exchanges stabilize, then we will add the data back in, but that hasn’t happened yet,” said a CoinMarketCap spokesperson. Crypto price trackin website CoinMarketCap has removed many South Korean exchanges from its calculations for the price of Bitcoin as the coin dipped under $58,000 again.As of today, CoinMarketCap’s Bitcoin price tracker shows no data from major South Korean crypto exchanges including Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit. The website uses data from many exchanges to estimate the average price for cryptocurrencies. At the time of publication,....
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