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[grigio]

I appreciate this.. but why do you do it with real money? Shouldn't be better to allow a "simulation mode" ?

[ksowocki → grigio]

OP here.

You could. For me, 1 BTC is a negligible amount that was worth not having to manage the abstraction overhead of a simulation mode.

[ksowocki → ksowocki]

But if you wanted to add a simulation mode, I'd certainly welcome the PR :)

[gst → ksowocki]

A simulation sounds simpler than having to declare 23,413 trades on a tax form.

[mdip → gst]

Ah, yikes! Good point. One has to factor in not only the trading fees but the potential fees incurred in preparing ones taxes (or having them prepared by a third-party as many in the US usually do -- I wouldn't even want to know what my tax guy would charge for that kind of volume!)