1) Satoshi Dice has been bought out for a price in BTC ... deal done .... buyer must have the BTC to pay
2) BTC will be distributed to the previous shareholders, who presumably have faith in BTC or would not have invested
3) NO DEAL is ever secret, so if there were to be an influence on price we would have seen it
4) The news is now in the public domain, and there has been no price movement
1) Satoshi Dice has been bought out for a price in BTC ... deal done .... buyer must have the BTC to pay
Yup, so no new BTC purchase.
2) BTC will be distributed to the previous shareholders, who presumably have faith in BTC or would not have invested
Sure.
You can be faithful and still sell to buy back later.
That's the easiest way to grow your BTC stash.
3) NO DEAL is ever secret, so if there were to be an influence on price we would have seen it
4) The news is now in the public domain, and there has been no price movement
Bitstamp is now at $90... might be in part because of this... we will never know.
Also, those BTCs are not yet released. They will be in a few hours.
But who knows, maybe
everyone will just decide to keep their BTCs.