Looks like the banks are getting yet another bailout, JPM looses 75 million users data, stocks rise 1.3%
Yeah, "Lost". How much is a database like that worth on the black market? We already know they're a bunch of lying, thieving scumbags.
Wouldn't be one bit surprised, hit about 2% after btw.
Looking over eur and xau for the last while.... and we're not actually going down, one of our units of measurement is screwed up is all. The euro, gold, oil and bitcoin have been more or less running in sync, they've been following the same pattern for the last month.
I have two thoughts,
if speculators are fleeing commodity safe havens (and BTC is in this category), then we may start to see some altcoins challenge bitcoin for supremacy - maybe not in price but in adoption if BTC tumbles to a much lower value.
If it is predominantly merchants selling off BTC then I think BTC grew too big too fast and again, the sellers will outweighs the buyers until another altcoin is worth more. I don't want to think about it but this could mean $5 BTC
well way back when i was 17 in my Intro to Macroeconomics or was it micro... can't remember... class our professor discussed substitution effects and indifference curves...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indifference_curveso what are the switching costs of btc to a btc clone, do consumers care? btc can be even seen as an inferior product with a higher cost since it is slower and the dev seems to have slowed as well. logically that means...
just my two cents but one can see with Paypal and their partnership with one of Brock's companies who accepts not only BTC but LTC and Doge that there is a potential to rebalance along to adjust to the realities of consumer preferences and cost.
and the fact that btc dev's have done little to nothing in the last year to increase transactional capacity, any rational actor the has merchant relationship would want to hedge himself across multiple networks in order to be able to best service his merchant customers during the Xmas buying season when ecommerce tx go through the roof.
merchants, paypal, visa, mastercard know that Xmas shopping season everything has to work flawlessly to get people's shopping money, but our bitcoin dev's sit around arguing over esoteric pie in the sky bullshit ignoring the ABC's of practical business.