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Board Mining speculation
Re: difficulty skyrocketing and price stagnant
by
the joint
on 12/05/2012, 01:12:20 UTC
This is bullshit, why the hell isn't bitcoin following the basic laws of supply and demand ?

What the hell is going on with the hashrate ? It can't be FPGA's yet and why the hell would people be throwing money at GPU's right now?

just weird.

Because the demand is driven by speculation and not driven by the desire to purchase goods/services.  Thus, the price of Bitcoin currently functions largely as a product of psychology and not much else, though this is slowly changing.