I was studying the UNO volume and it appears that 85% of it is created by a bot on C-CEX. This means that organic volume is probably closer to $100/daily.
Someone controlling 10% of the supply (or $40,000 worth) could, for all intents and purposes, irreparably harm the currency. This means that the Cryptsy coins would have to fall into benevolent hands to ensure the avoidance of a market catastrophe.
Does this seem like a plausible statement, or am I being overly dramatic?
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Yeah, I'd say overly dramatic. First of all your scenario isn't exclusive to UNO, it could be applied to pretty much every altcoin. I don't understand what you expect to hear. UNO is quite cheap right now, I guess it would be "affordable" for a malicious party to aquire enough coins to do harm, but you could just as well just burn the money. Hmmm, now that I think about it that sounds just like what has happened this spring, lol. Somebody market-bought UNO up to almost 10x current price, just to dump the coins down to 1/10th current price not long ago. Didn't "irreperably" harm the market, price is just where it was 6 months ago almost like nothing happened.
Look, I've been trading Unobtanium for close to 2.5 years now, I've been through pretty much all the pumps, dumps, hacks, theft, chaos, FUD, greed, but also fun, joy and excitement. UNO has a loyal core group of hodlers and traders, attracted to the coin due to its fundamentals. The pumpers come and go, we stay. Many of us really like to hold and accumulate the coin whenever it is considered cheap (historically that would be whenever it is below .005). Some of us sell when the price goes up and rebuy when it comes back down, others just hold. This tendency to accumulate and hold has repeatedly resulted in periods of low volume. UNO is not a market to quickly flip a few BTC worth of coin for profit.
Don't mistake that as a lack of interest though. There's plenty of people watching the markets that would be more than happy to put more BTC on the buy side of the orderbook, should further dumps occur. UNO traders prefer waiting for weak hands to bleed out, rather than buying from the offers side on the exchanges. We're a patient bunch of motherf***ers.