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Hi all, As some of you may have noticed previously, I'm on Bitstamp. Simply because of the trustworthiness of the company (including a Luxembourg banking permit). During the past few spikes up for XRP, I've been checking back and forth between the spread that occurs, not between buyers& sellers, but between Bitstamp and Poloniex. Last run was big fun: there was even a 3 $ct spread between Bitstamp and Poloniex. Currently, they are getting more in line again (Bitstamp always being the more 'conservative' one during this run). Now - I do indeed know there is a price differential - Poloniex having the higher XRP/USDT price (most of the time about 2-3%) since USDT is basically an USD.iou versus the USD.fiat at Bitstamp. I do get that. What I'm interested in is this: what might your reasons be to trade at Poloniex? - If you'd want to bail out into fiat --> then I see no reason to be holding USDT. Useless for that matter, since you would then want someday-exploding fiat instead. - If you'd want to switch from the one alt into another alt: I can understand trading at Poloniex given the good volumes there - If you'd want to do arbitrage, there may at times be reasons to use Poloniex But for the long term hodler, and/or those entering the market using EUR fiat or USD fiat - so why bother going through the USDT stuff at Poloniex? Why not : -either use Gatehub (after validation at least from Europe I could fund/withdraw easily from a fiat bank account) -or: with those same features + even a banking permit : use Bitstamp instead? Please share your thoughts on this. I'm not trying to mock or propagate exchanges here - just trying to look from every angle on this. As said, I'm a hodler. Thanks!