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Old 04-12-2013, 04:25 AM  
Serge Litehead
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Originally Posted by Sunny Day View Post
MTGOX claims to trade 80% of all bit coin trades. The problem is when they sell Bitcoins they need to keep 100% of the sales as reserves. They do charge fees, but the fees alone probably don't cover their overhead and salaries. So even it Bitcoins remained at a stable price they probably couldn't refund customers at 100%.
mtgox's 30 day volume
2.5 million btc / $274 million

take a modest 0.3% fee as they have flexible fee structure based on account's volume from 0.6% to 0.25%. on average i'd say they're getting closer to 0.5%. there is your answer how much mtgox makes roughly.
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