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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by mrb on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#14993222)
"no liquidity for the volume of ETH raised"

Look again. Poloniex alone exchanges $1 billion dollars, 3M ETH, on the ETH/BTC pair, weekly. https://cryptowat.ch/poloniex/ethbtc/1w Volume on the path ETH→BTC→USD is a lot higher than ETH→USD and that's the path that whales dumping ETH take.

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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by qaq on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:31PM (#14993902)
"Volume on the path ETH→BTC→USD is a lot higher than ETH→USD" which kinda reinforces the point that there is no liquidity
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by jonreem on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:22PM (#14994428)
If you can get USD at the end why does it matter if you have to go through BTC for now? The liquidity is still there.
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