Is There a Limit to Arbitrage in Cryptocurrencies?

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Mat levin: I think that the rla some obvious limits to arbitrage. One is that there's a perception that it's hard to short a lot of crypto assets. The other thing that i don't really understand about bitcoin is, like, exchange withdrawal limits. Mat levin: There are some technical factors that probably lead to bitquin oliation. Can technical things solve that? We now do have some time for questions. Please note, these are questions, not speeches.

Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There’s a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of Horace’s letters are about the length of a Bloomberg View column. QED, says Tyler.

So Matt, the Latin teacher turned lawyer turned investment banker turned finance writer, recently joined Tyler for a conversation on Horace and more, including cryptocurrencies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nabakov, New York, Uber, financial regulation, market volatility, M&A, whether finance is nerdy, and why panic is central to the Matt Levine production function.

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