me and a friend are selling 200k IOTA for 10 BTC in total, the friend is holding the coins. With escrow of course!
Wow the price has really skyrocketed.
It's not the price. It's just a sell offer.
Half that iota has sold at half that price. It was the same amount per iota (100,000 for 5 BTC. @ 5000 satoshi). Of course to be fair it didn't happen until after you wrote this.
It's no surprise because its still so low compared to other projects of lesser caliber trading for much, much more. We are still far from establishing it's true value. The IOU factor is pulling the price down considerably lower than what it will be once buyers are receiving their coins at the time of sale.
There's a risk involved, people can get screwed. The buyers that take this risk, and receive their coins will be rewarded. I can't see the risk being gone and the coins costing less.
I say this because that would mean that there would be LESS demand for Iotas. How could the demand go down once there is less risk. That would mean that more people would rather buy iotas and risk not getting them, than people wanting to buy iotas with a guarantee of getting them.
So the demand will rise with every buyer who would not take that risk entering the market.
So those who take the risk will get
paid for taking that chance, as long as they found someone who will send them their coins. That's the only way I see them failing to make a profit. Barring the Tangle failing to work, which I see as extremely unlikely with CFB at the helm and successful testing currently.