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Title: Why people insist on selling bitcoins on TradeHill? Post by: zby on November 24, 2011, 12:33:27 PM There is lots of coins on sell in TH, but not much dollars to buy them and in effect the prices are constantly lower there. It has been puzzling me why someone insists on selling on TH when he can in one hour move his BTCs to MtGox and sell them for a better price? A few hypotheses:
- it is a manipulation to keep BTC prices down (that was my initial thought - but I've seen it being bought entirely a few times - so that was not that cost free as one would think) - it is a TH trick to attract more traffic to their site - moving money out from MtGox is just too costly, complicated and time consuming (the daily quotes, the silent monthly quotes, the fees, for example for SEPA transfers they charge 2% - and the exchange rates for EURo used in these transfers are equally awful). Title: Re: Why people insist on selling bitcoins on TradeHill? Post by: Jonathan Ryan Owens on November 24, 2011, 12:47:38 PM There is lots of coins on sell in TH, but not much dollars to buy them and in effect the prices are constantly lower there. It has been puzzling me why someone insists on selling on TH when he can in one hour move his BTCs to MtGox and sell them for a better price? A few hypotheses: - it is a manipulation to keep BTC prices down (that was my initial thought - but I've seen it being bought entirely a few times - so that was not that cost free as one would think) - it is a TH trick to attract more traffic to their site - moving money out from MtGox is just too costly and complicated (for example for SEPA transfers they charge 2% - and the exchange rates for EURo used in these transfers are equally awful). It could also be that quite a few people don't trust MtGox. Title: Re: Why people insist on selling bitcoins on TradeHill? Post by: BadBear on November 24, 2011, 02:13:34 PM MtGox has it's issues, not the place for that discussion though.
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