someone just splurged 23 btc on mintpal and wiped that 17btc sell wall at 450k satoshi
...aaaaand another exciting day in DRKland has begun
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Now seriously some of these BTCs can't be legit. Earlier the price was 0.0039 both Mint and Cryptsy... a guy comes along at Mintpal and throws like 20-30 BTC buy order at 0.0045. Why would anyone do that if they had actually acquired their BTC in legitimate ways? It's an insta-loss of 10%... He would still get his DRKs if he put the buy at 0.0041. I sold everything I had at Mintpal on him and rebought at 0.004 a few seconds later.
They could also just not care about a short term loss. There is no doubt this price will fly a lot higher after RC2 so in the long run their buy was completely reasonable.
No disagreement with the fundamentals but why go over 10% of the current orderbook? Doesn't make any sense / it's not rational buying behavior.
If he's interested in acquiring that number of DRK he may have had to in order to fill his order instantly instead of creating a buy wall.