Riskless Arbitrage Is Not Riskless at All

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Yoto om has something that the traditional financial system has in some places, but mostly not ritveteus. atomic transactions and atomiciry creates riskless arbitrage. But if you look in the regular financial system, most arbitrage that's performed is not actually riskless at all. Em: As somebody that will probably get competed out of the game when there are players that are able to take these riskst it kind of makes sense to me why people are not able or willing to take these risks.

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