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Rbit: Bitcoin Mining, Mt. Gox, Stat Arb & the Future of Crypto HFT
Rbit joins the Insilico Terminal Podcast to talk about his 15-year journey through crypto — from discovering Bitcoin on 4chan, mining BTC in 2011, losing funds on Mt. Gox, and trading the early BitMEX era, to building statistical arbitrage and HFT systems. We cover the 2017 ICO cycle, Bitcoin fork trades, why 2018 pushed him toward quantitative trading, what stat arb actually means, how HFT signals differ from longer-term strategies, why smaller venues can still offer major edge, and how crypto market structure is becoming more competitive as exchanges move closer to TradFi infrastructure…
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