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Definition
A centralized exchange, where a company holds your funds and matches trades.
A centralized exchange runs an order book internally and custodies your assets. You get a familiar account, customer support, fiat deposits and fast trading, in return for trusting the operator.
That trust has been broken before, spectacularly. The phrase not your keys, not your coins came from exchanges failing while holding customer funds.
In practice
Coinbase, Binance.US and Kraken are centralized exchanges. They are the sensible place to convert dollars, and a poor place to store long term holdings.
Where to go next
DEXA decentralized exchange, where you trade directly from your own wallet.Self custodyHolding your own keys, with everything that follows from that.Order bookThe live list of buy and sell orders waiting to be matched.CustodyWho actually controls the keys to an asset.
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