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atucker comments on General Bitcoin discussion thread (June 2011) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: atucker 12 June 2011 05:45:42AM *  0 points [-]

66% pullback in price this weekend. This certainly isn't a market for the fainthearted.

Clearly, the market is responding to people questioning its efficacy on Less Wrong. :P

My probability distribution looks something like 90% chance of going to 0 and 10% chance of going to multiple hundreds of dollars.

Are you buying bitcoins? Expected utility is in the multiple tens of dollars if you believe that.

Comment author: Mercy 12 June 2011 01:38:51PM *  3 points [-]

It's funny you should mention that, because just about the time of the collapse a bunch of posters on the Something Awful thread mocking bitcoins decided to see if they could crash the market by posting SELL SELL SELL messages on various discussion boards. From the posts there they think it's coincidence though- the crash was caused by a single big seller.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 12 June 2011 09:56:41AM 1 point [-]

I'm mining. And my utility is not uniform over my money. Money now is significantly more valuable than money will be once I graduate college.

If I had more disposable income I would have bought some directly.

Comment author: jhuffman 06 January 2012 09:59:12PM 1 point [-]

I'm curious, are you still mining? Also, are you living in a dorm with fixed electricity cost?

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 07 January 2012 09:56:14PM 1 point [-]

mining was unprofitable for a long while until just recently with the price recovery. mining now is worth it for the free heating.