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Board Speculation
Re: Mt. Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection
by
V2Rocket
on 28/02/2014, 13:31:23 UTC
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You are forgetting that price is directly influenced by demand.  If 99.9% of demand (all but those few backwater countries) vanishes, the price plummets.  Even on those black markets.
Not forgetting anything. The price is what it is because the demand is there. Which is to say, the demand for black market dollars is higher than the demand for legal dollars. Another factor is scarcity of supply in such situations.

With bitcoin, the countries with failing fiat economies are the most likely to ban it. Those are also the countries where people will be most desperate to find alternatives to hold their money over fiat. Reduced supply (only criminals have bitcoin) with rising (desperate) demand means the price will stay stable or go up. If it goes up it will spill over into the legal parts of the world in the form of arb. These are basic fundamentals.

According to your logic, if bitcoin is made illegal, the price of my bitcoin holdings would skyrocket?  I'm off to Washington -- lobbying to illegalize bitcoin so's I can haz filthy rich Cheesy