Trading
Limit Orders vs. Market Orders: How Each One Actually Fills on a Crypto Exchange
A market order fills immediately at the best available price while a limit order fills only at your price or better — and the difference shows up directly in…
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Trading
How Market, Limit, and Stop Orders Work on Crypto Exchanges
A breakdown of how market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders execute on crypto exchanges, and the tradeoffs traders weigh between execution speed, price…
Trading
What Paper Trading Teaches Crypto Traders — and What It Cannot
Paper trading executes simulated orders against live prices with no money at risk, which makes it excellent for testing mechanics and worse than useless for…
Trading
How Cross-Exchange Crypto Arbitrage Works
The same bitcoin trades at different prices on different venues at the same moment; arbitrage is the business of capturing that gap, and the gap is mostly a fee…
Bitcoin
What Happens When the Last Bitcoin Is Mined in 2140
Bitcoin's subsidy reaches zero around 2140, after which miners live on fees alone — a transition the protocol has been rehearsing at every halving since 2012.