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April 12, 2013, 08:08:17 AM
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Run out of cash? With account holdings they have what 10 million? 20 million?

How many million would it take to cover all the people who want to cash out at $60 over the next month? Really think they'd end up with every bitcoin?

I know lots of people who wouldn't sell at $100, let alone $60. What is going to convince people BTC is really worth $30 and go sell everything at $60? And never buy back in? Something would really convince the community that BTC is worth $30 when MtGox will keep buying at $60. There's people who think BTC will hit $500. $1000. What happens when it caps out? Any massive sell off just causes much less supply and they end up slowly selling it right back. They have enough holdings to survive any swing.

People who use BTC as a currency will be loading money and buying daily as they do now.

if you set a lower limit panic selling would stop, so mtgox would indeed run out of cash very fast. they make lot's of money, but not enough to stop a whole market from going down

oops, i reread my statement and i admit it does not make much sense  Roll Eyes

but still, someone setting the price is quite opposite to the fundamentals of bitcoin, so i guess there won't be many around who support it
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April 12, 2013, 08:04:13 AM
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Honestly, I've always thought such a thing could be tried.  If some entity set price targets that many people agreed to abide, it could work.  But getting people to agree is the difficult part.
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April 12, 2013, 08:02:50 AM
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Run out of cash? With account holdings they have what 10 million? 20 million?

How many million would it take to cover all the people who want to cash out at $60 over the next month? Really think they'd end up with every bitcoin?

I know lots of people who wouldn't sell at $100, let alone $60. What is going to convince people BTC is really worth $30 and go sell everything at $60? And never buy back in? Something would really convince the community that BTC is worth $30 when MtGox will keep buying at $60. There's people who think BTC will hit $500. $1000. What happens when it caps out? Any massive sell off just causes much less supply and they end up slowly selling it right back. They have enough holdings to survive any swing.

People who use BTC as a currency will be loading money and buying daily as they do now.

if you set a lower limit panic selling would stop, so mtgox would indeed run out of cash very fast. they make lot's of money, but not enough to stop a whole market from going down
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April 12, 2013, 08:00:20 AM
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if you set a lower limit panic selling would stop, so mtgox would indeed run out of cash very fast. they make lot's of money, but not enough to stop a whole market from going down
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April 12, 2013, 07:55:03 AM
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Srly?
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April 12, 2013, 07:52:23 AM
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setting a bottom and top USD value for Bitcoins? They put out a press release saying they were putting an unlimited buy wall of BTC at $60. They were also putting an unlimited sell at $70. Including users holdings, they easily have enough cash and Bitcoins. No one would sell for less than $60 on the other exchanges. No one would ever buy for more then $70 on the other exchanges. What would stop them from doing this?

Maybe they'd run out of Bitcoins. They could always just shift the price point to $70-$80. There's no way they'd run out of cash, they'd always have a steady flow of people buying at the bottom set price. Add in the delay in transferring funds and the ability to dip into account holder’s money (like banks do).

The only risk I see is everyone leaving the exchange. But I doubt people would want the volatility of the last few months and would embrace Mtgox (or a 3rd party) doing this.  They guarantee the price of BTC at $60 and release BTC at $70 as demand requires. It would severely limit pumping/dumping, ddos attacks, manipulation.  If they want more swings to keep the investment/trading side of BTC going they could go $50-$75. And if they did this, could anyone stop them? Would anyone want to?
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