Attempting to capture price differences across venues or instruments after fees, transfer time and counterparty risk.
Arbitrage is best understood as part of a system rather than as an isolated definition. Its related coordinates show the mechanisms, incentives and historical records that give the term practical meaning.
Arbitrage describes how participants value, trade or obtain exposure to bitcoin. Market behavior can affect adoption and mining economics, but it does not rewrite consensus rules. Price evidence and protocol evidence answer different questions.
Understanding Arbitrage helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Price discovery, Bitcoin basis trade, Counterparty risk. The reverse links also lead from Entrepreneurial discovery, Price discovery.
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Explains function and trade-offs
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