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Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
by
cypherdoc
on 01/11/2014, 16:58:15 UTC
simple theory question for all SC proponents.  so simple in fact what am i missing?

we have 13M BTC @ around $325.  SC comes along and lets say 3M BTC --> scBTC (just for illustration).  we know that the price of scBTC has to be lower given MM, newness, being unproven, risk of failure, etc.  let's say price starts off @ $100.

why don't arb bots circle back around and drive BTC price down to say $250-270 or whatever the equilibrium is btwn BTC and scBTC, which we know is lower?  multiply this by 1000 SC's.
I haven't kept up with the side chain hype. What's the mechanism of arbitrage here? How would you be able to profit off a price differential between this sidechain coin and bitcoin?

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