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Board Economics
Re: Why bitcoin's exchange rate won't drop too much
by
johnyj
on 16/12/2013, 23:54:47 UTC
It doesn't make much sense unless you are going to use them on something else besides trading (which is simply impossible right now in any significant amount). Otherwise you inflict uninvited costs on yourself. Central banks are doing this because they have to defend their exports (as an example). They don't do it just for the sake of keeping exchange rate at certain level...

If you mine bitcoin, you will be able to see things from the view of a central banker, since you issue money. It is very easy to understand why banks do this and do that if you issue money by yourself...

The first priority is always keep the value of their money stable, all the other things like full employment/price stability/international trade deficit are all trivial things compared to the value of their money. That's the reason they'd rather close their pocket and see people suffering instead of open their pocket and let inflation quickly destroy the value of their money

Of course, to protect the forex exchange rate of one type of money is not easy, especially if you issued too much money and do not have enough foreign currency reserve. That is the Asian financial storm when Soros shorted the currencies from those small countries and almost emptied their USD reserve when those governments desperately trying to support the exchange rate with their USD holding