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So there's a site called bitbargain.co.uk with UK sellers. They can offer whatever price they want, so while the mtgox price is £95/btc, they're selling them on bitbargain for £110-£145 (and people are buying).

So I assume there's people buying and selling them same day and making a fat profit??
 
There are kids on some forums absolutely shitting themselves, asking for financial advice etc, I'm assuming they're holiding thousands and they don't know what to do...
 
There are kids on some forums absolutely shitting themselves, asking for financial advice etc, I'm assuming they're holiding thousands and they don't know what to do...
Tell them to sell out all at once. But give me a day or two's warning please.
 
Tell them to sell out all at once. But give me a day or two's warning please.

Do you think today's price will be highest bitcoin will ever be in it's history? If not, why are you waiting for a slight drop?

I do find it mildly amusing that same conversations seem to be happening over and over as the price rises. I had these exact discussions on forums when it rose sharply to $30/btc. :cool:
 
What price would you be willing to buy them at?
Whatever price it settles back down at when the bubble bursts, which will be a significant fraction of the current price if things go the same way they did last time (yes I know :D)
EDIT: ie. not a "slight" drop, but a reduction to 10-20% of the spike.
 
ok I just saw this thread and am going to jump right in and buy some for the lolz

If it turns out I bought at the top of the spike, I will just buy a load more at the bottom. What can possibly go wrong? :D
 
Could look like this though. ;)

yes it could but the risk of buying now is certainly high

There's no real precident for bitcoin...

There's all the other graphs of things bought and sold ever.

the-south-sea-bubble.jpg
 
Quite. The steep bit of the graph is for people with a taste for adventure.
 
yes it could but the risk of buying now is certainly high



There's all the other graphs of things bought and sold ever.

the-south-sea-bubble.jpg

Yeah I know, it think the recent frenzy will settle. But we just don't know what the price of a bitcoin will settle at in the next 5 years. What if they're meant to settle around $1000/btc...or $10,000? There will only ever be 21m in existence and that final figure won't get hit until the next century. I just look at the number of ASCI miners waiting to be shipped, and the number of pending accounts on mtgox and can't help but think there's another few huge surges on the horizon in the near future.
 
Surely those ASIC machines will only ever benefit a few people at a time, as they get a temporary lead on other miners? The actual production rate is constant and there will be no "over-supply"
 
Yeah that's basically correct Crispy. The supply of new bitcoins will increase a bit as the ASICs are rolled out and difficulty lags slightly, but it's not going to be a large factor in the price.
 
There are a lot of early adopters with huge amounts of coins. They will start dumping them and the market will dip. People will panic and it will dip further.
 
Surely those ASIC machines will only ever benefit a few people at a time, as they get a temporary lead on other miners? The actual production rate is constant and there will be no "over-supply"

Yeah you're right. I was thinking more in terms of the power of the bitcoin network vastly increasing, adding to its legitimacy and increasing confidence.
 
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