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Re: [ANN BTCJam] - Loans hedged in other currencies (USD/EUR/RU)
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Tulkas
on 19/02/2013, 19:09:58 UTC

Right, which means the loan is actually a USD (or Euro or whatever) loan however you want to spin it.  The value of BTC never enters into it; is just payable in BTC.  This is not a hedge.  A hedge is a position that protects against the risk in another position.  A true hedge would be to lend 10 BTC and then go sell short 10 BTC at $X, or more likely to buy an option to sell 10 BTC at $X.  Posting a link to the Wikipedia article on hedge doesn't make what you are offering a hedge. (Incidentally, from the very first line of said article: "A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment."  There is no companion investment in what you are doing.)

But whether you are offering is properly called a hedge or not is not really important.  However, you failed to answer actual question in my post, so I went to the site and did it myself: it appears that the buyer decides payback calculation when they create a loan.


Since there's no USD/Euro/etc involved the loan is in Bitcoin. Perhaps hedge is not the exact word for it, I failed to find a better one, perhaps you can suggest an alternative.

The payback calculation is done by the system based on the exchange rate for the reference currency at the payment moment.