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Flash Loans - What Number Is a Million Dollars?
The person who sold that a cryptopunk to themself has now listed it for a billion dollars. It is very likely that the person was able to get, you know, more than 500 million dollars in instant loans and pay a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of a cent in fees because of how these flash loans are constructed. Because depending on where they borrowed the money from, there isn't necessarily even a real interest rate of any kind.
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