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Re:The reason Bitcoin Crashed today by phasevar on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:03AM (#5530603)
Can someone explain how this image relates to the title?
Re:The reason Bitcoin Crashed today by kyrias on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:18AM (#5530642)
Someone made lots of offers of 0.02 bitcoins for lower and lower price
Re:The reason Bitcoin Crashed today by ponyous on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:30AM (#5531214)
This wouldn't drop the price. There were just too many transactions and their engine couldn't handle it. So:

-> Lag -> Panic -> Selling -> Price drop

Re:The reason Bitcoin Crashed today by ignostic on Thursday April 11, 2013 @05:05AM (#5530782)
Correct me if I'm wrong - I don't know how Bitcoin works - but this shouldn't impact prices. At least, it wouldn't matter with currency trading. You can offer $.02 per Euro all day, and you'll just be ignored with no impact.

If this is not the case with Bitcoin, something is seriously wrong on a very basic head-smackingly obvious way.

Re:The reason Bitcoin Crashed today by ponyous on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:29AM (#5531210)
Somebody had multiple bots, which were selling and buying at same time. Everyone ignored them, but they still boosted price up since "last trade" was always higher because of this micro transaction manipulations caused by bots.