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legendary
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March 01, 2013, 10:33:30 PM
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What is your rationale for shorting S.DICE?

there's a few forces working against satoshidice.

satoshidice growth was occurring fastest (in btc terms) when there was no problem doing payouts on 0/unconfirmed.  exploits caused them to do payouts only after a confirmation in many instances.   so satoshidice can no longer provide the same service it provided before.  the price doesn't seem to reflect this change.

the space available in blocks is starting to crowd out microtransactions.  the fees for placing a wager to continue getting confirmed promptly will have to increase.   when considering the higher transaction fees versus payouts satishidice is no longer is as competitive against other bitcoin-based online gaming offerings.

the exchange rate is increasing and the average wager size is decreasing (i.e., a person might still plan to wager $3 at a time.  that used to be about 0.25 btc, now it is less than 0.1 btc.)   but the fees are the same or going up, and are increasing in terms of cost per wager.



now why none of that may matter is satoshidice is so profitable they have a warchest to build or buy whatever competition exists, and market it to more than make up for whatever loss in profits comes from satoshidice decline.  

tl:dr; naked shorting of satoshidice is a crazy risk
full member
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March 01, 2013, 08:42:59 PM
#4
I have an opportunity to put cash to work and make a great return in a relatively quick period of time.
I believe I will be able to buy S.DICE back cheaper and save myself some money on the loan.

Ah, I see. Makes sense to me now. You'll have to forgive the question, I'm pretty new to all this. Also don't think my lowly 670 shares are going to do you a whole lot of good.
hero member
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March 01, 2013, 08:13:01 PM
#3
What is your rationale for shorting S.DICE?

His rationale is that he wants to raise funds to invest in some RL venture and wants to sell them so he can.  The shares he already borrowed to sell include ones that are eseentially unshortable (they have a fixed buy-back price).

Basically it's (at least perceived as) easier to raise funds for a business/trading than to just ask to borrow cash unsecured.  Some unknown would stand zero chance of getting a 100 BTC loan filled but a much more signficant chance of raising 100 BTC by listing some sketchy business on an exchange.  Similarly I guess Ian's perception is he has more chnace of raising funds by asking to borrow to short than by asking to just borrow cash in the first place.
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March 01, 2013, 07:36:23 PM
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What is your rationale for shorting S.DICE?
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March 01, 2013, 04:30:23 PM
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