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Re:The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf] by ricardobeat on Thursday April 11, 2013 @10:15PM (#5536166)
> The exchange rate will fall faster than orders can be fulfilled

Is that possible? In the event of a crash all buy orders will be fulfilled, ordered by price/time. The exchange rate can't move if there are no orders being executed.

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Re:The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf] by el_senor_duerpo on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:14PM (#5536392)
Well, here's Mt. Gox today: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/mtgox/USD

And here's what happened on another exchange while Mt. Gox was down: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/btce/USD

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