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Topic: Is Overstock.com slowly draining the price? - page 2. (Read 2030 times)

legendary
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Overstock claims they are selling about $1 million worth of goods per day. And they are currently converting those bitcoins to dollars. Essentially a million dollars worth of bitcoins is being sold every day. This is not miners mining and being Bitcoin supporters so they are more likely to hold than sell, but certain selling. At the moment $1 million would send the price down $30. It may not go down that far completely due to other adoption but it is a constant drain.
Every Bitcoin they sell has to have been bought or mined by someone. So every single Bitcoin they add to supply is a Bitcoin added to demand.

There might be a tiny bit of short-term downward pressure as people who hold Bitcoins but don't really want to hold them take advantage of an opportunity to easily monetize them. But this is more than made up for by the increased value Bitcoins will have because they can be more easily spent.
legendary
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the forces that shape the bitcoins charts are not at all commercial, they are speculative. 1000 bitcoins a day is no big deal, especially in little chunks.

remember that those who spend with bitcoin are likely to buy those coins back if they are holders, and if they are not holders, chances are that they had to buy those coins before they spent them. the demand and supply re nullified.
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Overstock claims they are selling about $1 million worth of goods per day. And they are currently converting those bitcoins to dollars. Essentially a million dollars worth of bitcoins is being sold every day. This is not miners mining and being Bitcoin supporters so they are more likely to hold than sell, but certain selling. At the moment $1 million would send the price down $30. It may not go down that far completely due to other adoption but it is a constant drain.

We always fought for the chicken vs egg thing of people not having something to spend bitcoins on so they didn't buy them (which discouraged people from offering things for sale for bitcoins) but now that we have someone big offering people the opportunity to spend them on everyday items, it may be draining the price.

It is good in the long run because it encourages adoption (and they said they would start holding some bitcoins soon) but in the short term is it pushing the price down?

And will this happen every time a huge retailer starts accepting bitcoin?


Edit: Article I took the $1 million per day from was 100% typo by the writer of article.
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