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Re: [OFFICIAL]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading
by
Mythoughts
on 18/11/2014, 17:56:14 UTC
BTC swap rate is also terribly low even when the market was/is bearish.
Can we get a swap fee reduction from 15% to 10% maybe? Currently it's like 2.5% interest per year or less, hardly worth it.

This is what I don't understand, this is exactly how a market works. If it isn't worth it for enough people, then there will be no supply, and people will have to offer higher rates. Again, we don't want to set rates, and we are not trying to guarantee any sort of return, it is simply an option that people can, if the rates are agreeable to them, choose.

So that is why I am always baffled by all the discussion about FRR. Your unwillingness to offer a swap is a signal to the market that the rates are too low for you. If enough people feel the same, rates will have to rise, or there will be no swaps available. It appears, given that there is plenty of supply, that a lot of people require much lower rates than you, and what is hardly worth it to you, is worth it to them. This is what I was talking about in an earlier post, markets are always a race to the bottom, that is actually the discovery of the price.

True... I totally cant understand why anyone would lend bitcoins at such low rates. The risks of BFX having some sort of technical troubles might be low, but certainly not low enough for the potential rewards.

But:
The market cant really rise with that huge FRR wall. And I cannot lend BTC at FRR and then re-lend them out higher, so this severly limits price discovery.
Did you see this post, some criticism of it and a way to avoid these problems?