No impact per se, as just a single adjustment would have, but I believe there is a close relation to the hunter-prey equations.

I would volunteer for that.

Take your meds Riesto.

Use an Exchange which doesn't care probably. Of course it really depends on how widespread that VAT for Bitcoins thing really is. If it's EU wide (which I doubt since Germany has published that "Bitcoin is considered private money" letter) I'd be starting to be concerned.
But even then I think there would be "services" for "smuggling" Bitcoins over the Internet.

Of course I agree that a wide spread VAT on Cryptocurrencies would prevent Bitcoins usage as a money substitute.

Perhaps something like "Bitcoin could be subject to VAT for some of us soon."
 
I think that once an exchange charges VAT it can pretty much shut down as long as there are other ones which do not. I also don't see how this is relevant to Bitstamp, it's not in Estonia.
Yes I know if a good is "exported" to another country in the EU VAT for that country has to be charged, in theory. But do you really think anybody will pay that as long as there is a way to circumvent it, especially considering how easy it is?

Clickbait Tilte, would not click again.

And I doubt anybody will be paying VAT for trading Bitcoins anytime soon, at least not in practice.

It depends on whenever you have a recent miner or cheap electricity. IIRC at the $2 bottom electricity costs exceeded trading costs even with fairly cheap electricity ($0.1 per kW/h) and a recent GPU. To determine that I used the Bitcoinwisdom calculator with 0% difficulty increase and tweaked the price till about every ROI was at infinity.
It may be lower still because the calculator should take the block reward reduction into account but it's just a ballpark figure anyway.

Where I live I would already be underwater for most ASICs (I pay  €0.2 per kW/h).

Reversal at that point makes even sense from a supply demand perspective: People who are looking for the cheapest way to obtain as many Bitcoins as possible are mining most of the time and once it's not longer the cheapest way they should rationally resort to buying. The thesis is that this makes a significant difference because they are new market participants at that point.

The 2011 bear market began after the golden age of GPU mining, the 2014 bear began after the golden age of ASIC mining.

The bottom happened about the same time as the electric cost exceeded the trade value, the period was quite brief. In order for that to happen at current difficulty price would have to tank to ~100-120.

has anybody said buttcoin yet?

One thing is certain: It will be hilarious.

You've seen that?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122006

really? I must check I'm just aware about the rough timeframes or there might have been a mixup in my head.

Well the silkroad spike was on 2nd October and the Willy Bot was created on 27th September, that might have been a coincidence but it still looks suspect to me.

The silkroad crash and subsequent recovery pretty much coincided with the rise of the mtgox Willy bot. I speculate is might even been brought into existence to get the price to recover at that point and the was left in operation because it worked so 'well'.

Lets see perhaps bitstamp has come up with their own version.
BTW I call dibs for it's name now: It's the Hubert bot.  

lol

How about you post it.

Quote your sources then.

People who do that don't post in this thread or in that fashion. You"ll sell before you have GBP 2000 left.

I bet you'll crack even before 2/3 unrealized losses.

By what metric?
By what metric?