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Topic: Parity watch -> Who's next? - page 15. (Read 68328 times)

newbie
Activity: 16
Merit: 0
April 02, 2013, 09:22:36 AM
M1 Parity check updates every 30 min ... still working on making it look nice Smiley
http://bitcoin.zinetsolutions.be/
legendary
Activity: 1147
Merit: 1001
April 02, 2013, 04:08:02 AM
How come japan has so much M1 money?! Shocked
6.735 trillion USD ?! Roll Eyes

They have a lot debt.

Debt = money in the fiat world.
sr. member
Activity: 405
Merit: 255
@_vjy
April 02, 2013, 01:24:46 AM
How come japan has so much M1 money?! Shocked
6.735 trillion USD ?! Roll Eyes
hero member
Activity: 509
Merit: 564
"In Us We Trust"
April 01, 2013, 09:35:49 PM
Any ETA for when we arrive in the G77, G20?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_77

Could ask for a "seat at the table" of UN for the lulz ...

or the G-24 ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_24

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The Group of 24 (G24), a chapter of the G-77, was established in 1971 to coordinate the positions of developing countries on international monetary and development finance issues and to ensure that their interests were adequately represented in negotiations on international monetary matters.

I'm already there representing Bitcoin, don't worry Smiley

I'll take a picture on Wednesday.
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
April 01, 2013, 09:02:32 PM
Any ETA for when we arrive in the G77, G20?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_77

Could ask for a "seat at the table" of UN for the lulz ...

or the G-24 ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_24

Quote
The Group of 24 (G24), a chapter of the G-77, was established in 1971 to coordinate the positions of developing countries on international monetary and development finance issues and to ensure that their interests were adequately represented in negotiations on international monetary matters.
legendary
Activity: 1792
Merit: 1111
April 01, 2013, 11:18:12 AM
YAY quickly skipped Niger,  briefly visited Cambodia and Suriname,  watching for Laos now

Cambodia



Suriname:




Laos, you are the next stop



Laos has been surpassed. You need to update the parity values based on latest number of total coins (10978925 atm)
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
April 01, 2013, 11:09:10 AM
Looks like we're aiming for Laos now.
legendary
Activity: 896
Merit: 1001
April 01, 2013, 11:07:30 AM
So, how many countries have we passed so far?
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1000
April 01, 2013, 08:46:50 AM
Update to Cambodia!
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1005
April 01, 2013, 12:11:07 AM
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.

This is off by an order of magnitude. It is $165 billion USD per year.

oops...
so x10
so parity price would be about 1470$
I'd be ok with that.  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1147
Merit: 1001
March 31, 2013, 05:09:48 PM
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.

This is off by an order of magnitude. It is $165 billion USD per year.

oops...
so x10
so parity price would be about 1470$
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1077
March 31, 2013, 03:24:36 PM
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.

This is off by an order of magnitude. It is $165 billion USD per year.
legendary
Activity: 1147
Merit: 1001
March 31, 2013, 02:23:29 PM
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.

A lot of those BTC are change too.

I already selected the statistic from blockchain.info which attempts to subtract out the change sent back to the sender.
hero member
Activity: 614
Merit: 500
March 31, 2013, 02:19:38 PM
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.

A lot of those BTC are change too.
legendary
Activity: 1147
Merit: 1001
March 31, 2013, 01:49:42 PM
#99
What about the idea of comparing transaction volume to other payment processors?

Paypal has a transaction volume of about 16 billion US$ per year.

Bitcoin's current transaction volume is about 300,000 BTC per day. If we assume a market price of 90$ that would add up to about 10 billion US$ per year.

So if Bitcoin usage and price stays at least at the current level then it is already 62% of Paypal.


The parity price for Paypal (assuming transactions stay at least the same) would be:
147$

Of course a significant amount of usage for Bitcoin is exchanging for Fiat currency while Paypal is almost all for goods and services.
donator
Activity: 2772
Merit: 1019
March 31, 2013, 01:04:38 PM
#98
haha: http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-challenge-dollar-currency-121/

this "idea" of comparing bitcoin "market cap" to money floating around in various currencies is making the round.
hero member
Activity: 634
Merit: 500
March 31, 2013, 01:41:43 AM
#97
We can never know the true efficiency distribution of all miners, but if you take a straight line from zero to one, on a chart where you display efficiency of all miners, sorted by efficiency, you would get total surface of 0.5,  and if you start from an assumption that the most efficient miner is at 0.5, you would get total of 0.75 under the curve.  Thus my assumption for total miner efficiency of 0.5 to 0.75.   In practice, it could be higher,  but if it is lower, it would be a temporary situation.

I think you forget, many people are willing to mine at a loss due to the prospect of long term Bitcoin ownership.
Which is still a dumb idea.

Spend $100 in electricity and get 0.5 BTC, or spend $100 on Bitcoins and get 1.0 BTC.  The choice should be obvious.  Mining at a loss is never a good (financial) idea.

I should have been more clear. I meant a loss after the cost of the rig was subtracted.
hero member
Activity: 784
Merit: 1000
March 31, 2013, 01:19:08 AM
#96
Guys, please let us stay on topic.
sr. member
Activity: 407
Merit: 250
March 31, 2013, 01:00:16 AM
#95

Unfortunately electricity is not the only cost of mining. There are many costs associated with it. Some of these are minor (pun not intended), for example:
  • Storage
  • Tax
  • Maintenance


I was just keeping it simple.



However, you are ignoring what is easily the second-greatest cost to mining: hardware depreciation. ASICs are useful for mining and only mining.


I think you misunderstood the main point of my argument, and that is that there is a feedback between bitcoin price and the running cost of all the miners, and that this running cost will tend to a non trivial part of the amount of USD you get when you multiply the price of bitcoin with the awards.  I estimated this to be 0.5 to 0.75 of the awards.  And this amount of money has to be balanced with the new speculative investments for the price to be stable.


Modeling a lifetime of a single ASIC is a more complicated way to do it, simply because your less and less efficient miner starts its life with less competition, and then ends it with more.  But I am looking only one point in time, and the distribution of costs (electricity and all) of all miners.

And that distribution is the only thing you need for the argument to work.  The initial cost of miners, if bought with USD does not effect the price of BTC simply because it does not go trough the exchanges.  (If you bought it with BTC, I'm sure a large part of that will get out of BTC at some point)

This is how you construct the picture.  Take the cost of running each miner in BTC per BTC mined,  sort them, lower to higher.   The area under that curve is the number we are interested in.

We might get something like this:
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And the idea is that the real distribution tends to something with the properties:

-no miner is free of running costs -> the curve does not start at (0,0), but at (0,x) where x > 0
-the last miner will be marginally profitabile, -> the curve ends at (n,1)

If the price jumps, the curve could temporary look like this:

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But this means that mining is hugely profitable, and market forces will push it in this direction:

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and then the difficulty will adjust:

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0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


(I took my estimates as lines  (0,0.5 to n, 1) -> 0.75, and (0,0 to n,1) -> 0.5.)


legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
March 30, 2013, 11:49:35 PM
#94

However, you are ignoring what is easily the second-greatest cost to mining: hardware depreciation. ASICs are useful for mining and only mining.

A great and overlooked truth, that.  It's why I quit mining in August, and went to straight buying.

I sold off my mining equipment by putting together a few awesome gaming machines at very competitive prices, for some people I know who are into that.

Can't do that with ASICs... so I'll let the people who want to go pure pro deal with mining.  I'll pick up some little ASIC miner one of these days, when you can actually buy one and get it in a few days - just to support the network - and solo mine for the hell of it.  I could get lucky.

This.  When ASICS are $1/TH (or whatever they get to when they are on the same process size as top of then line CPUs) I'll be cashing out a few BTC for mining hardware.  Until then, I'll run some GPUs in the winter to keep warm and hold any satoshis I can eek out.
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