id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt planet-code4lib-org-3272 Planet Code4Lib .xml application/rss+xml 61369 3279 59 On July 23rd the New York Times' Eric Lipton and Ephrat Livni profiled Sam Bankman-Fried of the FTX exchange in Crypto Nomads: Surfing the World for Risk and Profit:The highly leveraged form of trading these platforms offer has become so popular that the overall value of daily purchases and sales of these derivatives far surpasses the daily volume of actual cryptocurrency transactions, industry data analyzed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University shows....FTX alone has one million users across the world and handles as much as $20 billion a day in transactions, most of them derivatives trades.Like their customers, the platforms compete. ./cache/planet-code4lib-org-3272.xml ./txt/planet-code4lib-org-3272.txt