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Economy => Gambling => Topic started by: bpd on August 30, 2012, 12:28:50 AM



Title: The next step: MPT
Post by: bpd on August 30, 2012, 12:28:50 AM
There are now 35,000 BTC of documented bets with Matthew N Wright:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajtx05YrHtIydFVHcGxLOExTbnhqajJLZmlSZUNtM3c#gid=0

Some of these participants have made substantial bets of up to 6,000 BTC.

The logical next step is for one or more of the bettors to issue Matthew-passthrough (MPT) bonds on the GLBSE. Who will be the first to do it?


Title: Re: The next step: MPT
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on August 30, 2012, 12:34:48 AM
If I thought there was any chance he would pay I would offer CDS (Credit default swaps) so gamblers could insure their winning bets against a default. :)


Title: Re: The next step: MPT
Post by: bpd on August 30, 2012, 01:07:39 AM
Well, by offering an MPT, we could determine the probability the market puts on Matthew paying out. If price of an MPT bond is X and price of a PPT bond is Y, then Prob(Matthew pays) = X/(1-Y)