Quote from: --Encrypted-- on February 18, 2016, 10:29:50 AM

Quote from: MatTheCat on February 18, 2016, 10:14:04 AM

When people cash out of ETH...they cash out into BTC....if those people who made a killing in ETH wanted to really cash out....then this is bad for Bitcoin, cos they would sell ETH for BTC, and then BTC for USD.

bad or not, it's still a high possibility.

Quote from: electronicash on February 18, 2016, 06:03:02 AM

Every bit of news about bitcoin actually seem to have an effect to its value, the hospital computer hacker may even have an effect.. just read the threads in this section and you'll see some that mentions why a sudden move of price.
Also check the popular blogs like coindesk and the rest.

oh come on. 40 btc is too small amount to make a dent on the price. and the news is not exactly good enough to trigger a rise either.

Unless the Hospital are lying (for obvious reasons), and they did indeed pay the hackers thier 3.4 Million USD?

What are they gonna do?

Just let patients lie around in hopsital without medical staff having access to what the fuck is wrong with them, what medication they are on, etc etc?

The hospital either paid the hackers their 3.4 Million, most of the 3.4 million, or the hackers had a turn of heart, a crisis of conscience at depriving a lot of patients from their medical treatment, and caved in and accepted only 40 BTC for all their troubles, and risk of lengthy prison sentences.