2025-12-29 05:20:17

Just spotted something wild with the silver-dime arbitrage. Here's the math: 1 dime contains 0.08 oz of silver, so 12.5 dimes equals 1 oz. Current spot price for 1 oz of silver sits around $80. That means you're looking at spending just $1.25 for dimes (the face value of 12.5 coins), melting them down, and turning them into $80 worth of silver. The gap between face value and precious metal content creates a pretty obvious play—buy the dimes at par, extract the metal, sell at market rate. It's the kind of arbitrage opportunity that makes you wonder why it hasn't been squeezed dry already.

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MemeCurator

· 15h ago

Wait, is this math really true? Buying silver coins for $1.25 and then selling silver for $80? If this were really true, I would have been exploited to baldness long ago.

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SolidityNewbie

· 12-29 05:48

Wait, does this number add up? Buying 12.5 silver coins for $1.25 and then melting and selling for $80? Something doesn't seem right...

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ETHReserveBank

· 12-29 05:42

Wait a minute, there's a problem with this logic... Buying 1 ounce of silver with a silver coin denomination of $1.25? Silver prices are now at $80, this is impossible, there must be a mistake somewhere.

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CryptoMotivator

· 12-29 05:40

Wow, there's a flaw in this logic. Can it really be exploited like this?

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NftBankruptcyClub

· 12-29 05:30

Wait, is there something wrong with this logic... You can get $80 worth of silver with a face value of $1.25? Why isn't anyone doing this?

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ValidatorViking

· 12-29 05:28

nah this math doesn't hold up in reality... you're forgetting refining costs, dealer spreads, and the fact that nobody's actually selling you $12.5 face value at spot. tried this back in '21, network effects don't work like arbitrage. consensus on the ground says fees eat the margin.

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CoinBasedThinking

· 12-29 05:27

Wait, buy 12.5 silver coins for $1.25? That logic doesn't quite add up. --- Haha, another seemingly unbeatable arbitrage... reality might be more painful. --- Why isn't anyone doing it? Probably because the melting cost, liquidity, and legal issues are all being overlooked. --- The existence of such opportunities indicates that market pricing isn't that simple. Think about why. --- It's been completely exploited long ago. What we're seeing now are just surface-level articles. --- What are crypto people thinking? This arbitrage logic has long been validated in the traditional precious metals market. --- Really? It seems full of loopholes. Who dares to try doing this?

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