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legendary
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July 08, 2014, 10:27:24 AM
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If the dollar depreciate, bitcoin too.

Actually they would be inversely related. Less valuable dollars will buy less bit coin. Less valuable bit coin would mean you can get more of them for a dollar. 
Actually, weaker dollars means you could hypothetically buy more bitcoin that you could with current dollars. It depends, though, on the purchasing power of the dollar. That's what it all comes down to.

If you live in Canada and I live in Mexico and our exchange rate is 1:1, but I can buy milk for $10 while you need to pay $13 for milk, the Canadian currency has less purchasing power. Also assuming the milk is the same brand, same amount, same quality, etc.

Weaker dollars may not be a bad thing, but if the purchasing power falls, then that will be hopefully reflected in the Bitcoin price. It will go up in sync, or whatever the investors feel like doing.
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July 07, 2014, 11:15:18 PM
#3
If the dollar depreciate, bitcoin too.

Actually they would be inversely related. Less valuable dollars will buy less bit coin. Less valuable bit coin would mean you can get more of them for a dollar. 
hero member
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July 07, 2014, 10:29:16 PM
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If the dollar depreciate, bitcoin too.
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July 07, 2014, 07:23:27 PM
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Bitcoin and the PPP Puzzle

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2461588

Abstract:

This paper approaches the PPP puzzle by using the Bitcoin/US Dollar exchange rate. The use of the virtual currency as macroeconomic laboratory allows us to remove frictions that previously impeded the empirical demonstration of the law of one price. We show that price adjustments are still far from perfect due to information asymmetry between agents. Nevertheless, the real exchange rate is stationary and adjusts by 81% within one day. Finally, because of the different speed of information spread, good market arbitrage takes place in the Bitcoin economy but not in the US economy. Thus, we conclude that in a frictionless economy the PPP holds and the speed of arbitrage for the good market depends on the speed of information spread among agents.
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