Hmm... yes, now my bid might be too high! With a 6 day auction both the buyer and seller don't know what the price of the coins will be.
Heh, that's the old way of thinking, David
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The number of bitcoins stays the same, it's just the value of the USD that's changing (when measured in BTC).
On the
FAQ at bitcoin.org, Satoshi* could have written this:
...the competition for coin creation will drive the value of the coin close to the price of electricity needed for generating a coin
but notice how he said it this way instead:
...the competition for coin creation will drive the price of electricity needed for generating a coin close to the value of the coin
We should stop thinking of USD as the standard measure of value.
*I presume it's Satoshi who wrote those words