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Topic: Mt. Gox - BTC exchange with a reputation of "free" market economy (Read 1427 times)

legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1000
You are WRONG!
Mt.Gox decides to flick the switch as much as they like. use another exchange if you don't like it, or do person2person trades.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
Okay you're clearly too stupid to understand terms that have existed for hundreds of years, bye.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
the fuck I call that "natural"
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
A "natural" economy is one that occurs because the system it is in (in this case, bitcoin exchange) tends towards having a single body which dominates it.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
however.

that is not "natural"
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
The more people use MtGox, the more trade volume increases (and hence liquidity) And hence new traders find it more attractive to use. Hence whichever exchange is largest will tend to remain that way. This makes it a natural monopoly.

Is this too difficult to understand?
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
what is natural about that fraud?
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
It's almost like exchanges tend towards a natural monopoly, the more people who use one specific one, the more attractive it becomes to new people.

What I'm saying is that bitcoin isn't the free market, it's basically nationalised.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
if someone shuts down the 80% trading place on insider information...

you call that a "free" market" ?
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