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Jack1Rip1BurnIt
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Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 20, 2012, 01:02:46 AM
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/78-percent-of-bitcoin-currency-stashed-under-digital-mattress-study-finds/
Just wanted to share this interesting article I just read. Time to speculate
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Re: Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 20, 2012, 03:58:27 AM
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Feel like this article has 10+ threads.
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Re: Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 20, 2012, 07:36:59 AM
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It's a meaningless number.
Seals has X deposits. We haven't gone below (X * 0.78) in a long time so roughly (X * .78) coins are sitting dead still. So what? Tons of users have been moving coins around and that doesn't even count all the moving that doesn't happen on the blockchain (playing and internal transfers).
If it isn't clear. It is totally possible that all of our members used (by any definition, played, transferred, withdrew) all of their coins during the period that 78% of them sat still.
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October 20, 2012, 09:08:58 AM
Last edit: October 20, 2012, 07:03:41 PM by Stephen Gornick
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Quote from: zoinky on October 20, 2012, 03:58:27 AM
Feel like this article has 10+ threads.
Yup. Additional discussion here, in the Press forum:
2012-10-17 78 percent of Bitcoin currency stashed under digital mattress, study
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http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118946.0
And here:
78 percent of Bitcoin currency stashed under digital mattress, study finds
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http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119421.0
How to determine dormant coins? (Inspired by Shamir's paper)
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http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119465.0
Adi Shamir's paper on bitcoin
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http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118797.0
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Re: Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 20, 2012, 09:48:41 AM
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It could also be interpreted as 78% think that Bitcoin is currently way undervalued and will not sell all their coins at this time.
Which is a positive thing since it gives it better longterm value and means that it really is way much more stable than what people think.
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October 20, 2012, 10:57:37 PM
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Well, Bitcoin price is supported by almost pure speculation. Not necessarily a bad thing, but price
can drop
by quite a bit depending on how many people really provide liquidity instead of just buying and hoarding at any price.
The 78% number is quite an arbitrary thing though. Media guys.
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October 21, 2012, 12:29:25 AM
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kind of a weird stat... doesn't mean 78% the coins never moved, it just means 78% of the
Address
used have no outputs yet?
is that right?
The 22% of Address that do have outputs, how many outputs do they have and what is the totaly number of
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Re: Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 21, 2012, 12:57:48 AM
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Quote from: adamstgBit on October 21, 2012, 12:29:25 AM
kind of a weird stat... doesn't mean 78% the coins never moved, it just means 78% of the
Address
used have no outputs yet?
is that right?
The 22% of Address that do have outputs, how many outputs do they have and what is the totaly number of
BTC
ever sent?
I was having some of the same thoughts...
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Re: Where all the bitcoins are bitcoins are hiding.
October 21, 2012, 11:22:37 AM
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Did you even read the article then? It clearly says, that 78% of the total BTC ever produced have been located at addresses, which never sent any coin. Of that, 60% were more than 3 months old at the time it was measured (meaning, 46% of all BTCs were stale at addresses with no outgoing transactions for more than 3 months).
Total volume of transactions is pretty much irrelevant for this research, it could be one coin circulating rapidly. Also, it does not mean that these 46% of coin have never been used - they have been idle for three months, but they may have been moving 4+ months ago. We all have cold storage wallets with some percentage which have not been touched for several months, so that also contributes to these numbers.
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