Is This Data Real or Is It Garbage?

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In theory, one could then buy a bitquinine coin base, send it for ten thousand dollars, send it to bit stamp, sell it for 11 thousand dollars and make a thousand dollars. And here we were seeing things like two %, so a hundred times as bi. The volume wasn't trivial. E was trading a few billion dollars a day globally. So i jus ser created accounts on all the exchanges instear of trying to, like, you don't go, send in the money, buy the cheaper bit coins, sell them in other places, and see if i could make money doing that. That was just some complete bulshe clation that i did with no idea

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