Taking bitcoin to moon! Black market Vs White market

[cuddaloreappu]

In the history of bitcoin a lot of those glorious gains from 2011 to 2013 was greatly influenced by the black market activity of silk road taking on a rocket ride  from 1$ to 1000$..

But look at what is happening now!

White markets merchant adoption is increasing, new egg, overstock and the list gets longer much because companies like bitpay want to increase the merchant base for bitcoin!

Though this is great  but what do these merchants do? They just sell off  bitcoins immediately for dollars and this creates a selling pressure and hence bitcoin keeps falling  which made 2014 the worst year for bitcoin in terms of price gain!

If bitcoin keeps falllling like this then people become less interested in bitcoin and avoid it and hence no more merchants will accept bitcoin and thus the whole system just comes to a point of failure.

But black markets even if they increase the price of bitcoin many folds, may on long run make the mainstream public to  hate bitcoin altogether.

So the question is which is going to take bitcoin to moon, is it future decentralized black markets or centralized white markets?

[thehun]

There will be a balance between both kinds of trade. The instant selling of BTC by Overstock and similar sites is not a big deal on the long term; after all they have to do their accounting in dollars and you can't expect them to be hoarders like the guys selling on SR. As long as there are buyers for these coins which are sold (plus the coins that are mined every day) and the price remains more or less stable BTC will survive.

I don't think there will be any more "to the moon" moments in near future as the volume is increasing and there would need to be a much larger inflow of fiat than in the last bubbles, but that shouldn't be viewed as a problem unless you are a wannabe "get rich quick" speculator.

[cuddaloreappu]

There will be a balance between both kinds of trade. The instant selling of BTC by Overstock and similar sites is not a big deal on the long term; after all they have to do their accounting in dollars and you can't expect them to be hoarders like the guys selling on SR. As long as there are buyers for these coins which are sold (plus the coins that are mined every day) and the price remains more or less stable BTC will survive.

I don't think there will be any more "to the moon" moments in near future as the volume is increasing and there would need to be a much larger inflow of fiat than in the last bubbles, but that shouldn't be viewed as a problem unless you are a wannabe "get rich quick" speculator.

Its okay with overstock! imagine if tomorrow amazon and ebay does that then wont it make a huge impact!

[thehun]

There will be a balance between both kinds of trade. The instant selling of BTC by Overstock and similar sites is not a big deal on the long term; after all they have to do their accounting in dollars and you can't expect them to be hoarders like the guys selling on SR. As long as there are buyers for these coins which are sold (plus the coins that are mined every day) and the price remains more or less stable BTC will survive.

I don't think there will be any more "to the moon" moments in near future as the volume is increasing and there would need to be a much larger inflow of fiat than in the last bubbles, but that shouldn't be viewed as a problem unless you are a wannabe "get rich quick" speculator.

Its okay with overstock! imagine if tomorrow amazon and ebay does that then wont it make a huge impact!

Maybe on the short term, but if more people are at the same time getting into BTC and using it to do their shopping then another balance will be reached between buyers and sellers. It's just basic offer and demand.

The $1200 maximum of BTC was artificially pumped and this correction was to be expected. Do you imagine such a pump on any major currency pair like USD/EUR or GBP/JPY? There isn't enough money in the world to do something like that! As volume increases, pump&dumps are less effective (since they require more cash) and the exchange rate becomes more stable.