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Most currencies have traditionally been managed by gentlemen with gentlemen's agreements, to the extent they've been managed. This currency is unmanaged, but h
by vessenes 16y ago
Most currencies have traditionally been managed by gentlemen with gentlemen's agreements, to the extent they've been managed.
This currency is unmanaged, but has a lot of Russians hanging around it, checking it out, DDOSing the exchanges now.
I am curious what Satoshi thinks of this; I imagine he would back some of the distributed p2p exchange proposals out there, but this is one of those circumstances where benevolent oligarchies would work better than what's happening.
I predict bitcoin exchange price spike when mtgox comes back online.
- spenvo 16y agoWhy would the exchange price spike when there have been so many challenges to BTC's liquidity today? It's already inflated per the CNN mention from this morning, and the majority of BTC holders are speculators who will want to cash out. (There's been over 100% increase in value--in less than one week)
- vessenes 16y agoIt's back up and for right now, I was wrong, prices seem to have dropped. I believe that there are a small but significant group of people who actually need to use BitCoin to conduct their business. Liquidity problems hurt them, and their demand is inelastic. There are certainly plenty of speculators, though, and I wish I'd bought more than I did back at $.07/BTC. :) There's some lag between reading about BitCoin and actually driving demand, so I tend to see news response as driving up BTC a bit by speculation, and then a longer slower ride up. That said, BitCoin has zero elasticity on the supply side, and it has for some time seemed extremely likely to me that prices will continue to rise drastically for some time.