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Comment author: nazgulnarsil 12 June 2011 05:37:09AM *  2 points [-]

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

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

My downside is limited to having paid market price for 2 video cards and a power supply if bitcoins go to zero. My friend just built a mining rig with three cards for around $650. I tried to talk him out of it but the concept of free money seems to override people's ability to make cost benefit analysis.

Comment author: ciphergoth 13 June 2011 04:29:16PM 0 points [-]

At its lowest, it hit the price it was at on 7th June, right?

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 13 June 2011 09:54:23PM 0 points [-]

7th June it was around 18 dollars I think. It fell all the way down to 10 dollars before bouncing back.