If you had a Bitfinex account and a Coinbase account, you couldve made some easy money. Coinbase went under $200 for a split second but Bitfinex stayed under $200 for 10 minutes, hitting $162.
The spread was huge for those 5 minutes
They require confirmations, wouldn't be possible to arbitrage.The spread was huge for those 5 minutes
tell me about it
but you can kinda do it if you set a spread up across exchanges ready for such events.
but yeah ton of arbitrage ops present themselves purely because arbitrage is so difficult to do in crypto trading.