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Title: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: Dansker on October 22, 2011, 10:42:07 AM It's been said before, and it holds true as ever.
Can anything really be done about this, or should we just keep placing our faith in this 1 company? Just think of the market share they have! Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: memvola on October 22, 2011, 12:04:19 PM No one has to put their faith in MtGox or any other exchange or even any exchange at all. Granted, as long as the Bitcoin economy is little, little things will affect its exchange value. MtGox is not a specific case. Best remedy is developing the currency so that it gets resilient to these external effects. Let the currency speculators burn from perturbations in the meantime.
Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: worldinacoin on October 22, 2011, 12:06:22 PM As the dominant exchange by far, MtGox will definitely affect bitcoin should anything negative happen to it. But as the bitcoin economy grow, more and more exchanges will spring up and will slowly reduce such an effect should it occur.
Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: MaxSan on October 22, 2011, 01:27:51 PM There are plenty of quality alternatives i dont know why people seem to think its the be all and end all.
Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: BombaUcigasa on October 22, 2011, 01:27:55 PM You can always calculate the cost of producing bitcoins at current difficulty, thus agree on a non-speculative price. The bitcoin value is now:
~3.60000 USD/BTC Price may vary if your electricity is not 0.15$/kWh and you get anything other than 1.5Mhash/J. Discuss... Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: Hawkix on October 23, 2011, 06:36:25 AM You can always calculate the cost of producing bitcoins at current difficulty, thus agree on a non-speculative price. The bitcoin value is now: ~3.60000 USD/BTC Price may vary if your electricity is not 0.15$/kWh and you get anything other than 1.5Mhash/J. Discuss... Imagine GOLD would be evaluated on non-speculative way like you proposed for Bitcoin. Cost to mine. Its just cost to produce, nothing related to ability to exchange it with something else. Its just indicator if your production is economically viable. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: Shinobi on October 23, 2011, 07:08:14 AM Lol. Good luck "developing the currency" with some bullshit web-of-trust arrangement. It works less online that it would in real life. The anonymity touted by Bitcoin is precisely why noone trusts it. The only hope is for exchanges like MTGox which are collectively recognized. Bitcoin has proved just how hard it is to achieve the critical mass for the adoption of a new currency. The mining concept was brilliant but ineffective as it turns out.
No one has to put their faith in MtGox or any other exchange or even any exchange at all. Granted, as long as the Bitcoin economy is little, little things will affect its exchange value. MtGox is not a specific case. Best remedy is developing the currency so that it gets resilient to these external effects. Let the currency speculators burn from perturbations in the meantime. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: repentance on October 23, 2011, 07:25:27 AM As the dominant exchange by far, MtGox will definitely affect bitcoin should anything negative happen to it. But as the bitcoin economy grow, more and more exchanges will spring up and will slowly reduce such an effect should it occur. People keep complaining about MtGox's market dominance, but they keep using it because it has the volume - so it's the users themselves who are perpetuating that market dominance. The exchanges failing would have a big impact on speculators and on those who use the exchanges as a kind of bank to hold their Bitcoins and their money, but it wouldn't affect the success or failure of Bitcoin as a peer to peer currency. A lot of people would probably abandon Bitcoin if there was no longer a relatively easy way to speculate with it, but that wouldn't necessarily a bad thing - in some ways a lot of the problems it's experiencing now are the result of people wanting a maturity from it now which it was never designed to have at this point. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: ovidiusoft on October 23, 2011, 07:49:50 AM Imagine GOLD would be evaluated on non-speculative way like you proposed for Bitcoin. Cost to mine. Its just cost to produce, nothing related to ability to exchange it with something else. Its just indicator if your production is economically viable. It already is. In most countries, there are anti-dumping laws preventing businesses from selling their products below producing/buying costs (with special exceptions like assets liquidation and so on). There are also minimum wages laws, taxes, etc. If a company were to mine bitcoins, it would have to keep a proper accounting of expenses/wages/incomes and then they would not be able to sell below a specific price (not easily, anyway. They would have to invent some limited promotion, or file for bankrupcy...). Excuse the truism, but there is no such thing as a free market. Not yet, anyway. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: P4man on October 23, 2011, 08:26:07 AM Not having exchanges for a while would be one of the best things that could happen to bitcoin. If the only way to get bitcoins is sell stuff for BTCs (or to some extent, mining), and the only way to get rid of bitcoins is buy stuff with BTCs, we might actually start developing a bitcoin economy rather than a casino.
Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: worldinacoin on October 23, 2011, 08:28:03 AM Not having exchanges for a while would be one of the best things that could happen to bitcoin. If the only way to get bitcoins is sell stuff for BTCs (or to some extent, mining), and the only way to get rid of bitcoins is buy stuff with BTCs, we might actually start developing a bitcoin economy rather than a casino. Exactly the same opinion here, bitcoin should function as a currency. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: Shuai on October 23, 2011, 08:51:56 AM lets BRING DOWN MT GOX!
- RoboTs (its naive to think that destroying an exchange would increase or stabilize bitcoin trade) Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: Dansker on October 23, 2011, 09:01:16 AM As the dominant exchange by far, MtGox will definitely affect bitcoin should anything negative happen to it. But as the bitcoin economy grow, more and more exchanges will spring up and will slowly reduce such an effect should it occur. People keep complaining about MtGox's market dominance, but they keep using it because it has the volume - so it's the users themselves who are perpetuating that market dominance. Exactly, we can't expect users to change to a different service, which re-inforces the problem. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: BombaUcigasa on October 23, 2011, 10:00:29 AM You can always calculate the cost of producing bitcoins at current difficulty, thus agree on a non-speculative price. The bitcoin value is now: ~3.60000 USD/BTC Price may vary if your electricity is not 0.15$/kWh and you get anything other than 1.5Mhash/J. Discuss... Imagine GOLD would be evaluated on non-speculative way like you proposed for Bitcoin. Cost to mine. Its just cost to produce, nothing related to ability to exchange it with something else. Its just indicator if your production is economically viable. Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: steelhouse on October 24, 2011, 08:13:26 AM MT GOX went down several days and had little effect on the price of bitcoin. MT GOX is just an exchange service and has little effect on the overall price of bitcoin. There are dozens of exchanges already, and I am sure most would be happy if MTGOX burned. From the ashes a new forest will grow.
Title: Re: MtGox's dead could endanger bitcoins as a whole Post by: kripz on October 24, 2011, 08:52:55 AM Forum would be burnt too as they are hosting it.
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