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Re:The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf] by flyinRyan on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:33AM (#5537654)
>There is no capital nor wealth creation to speak of; only as much money as was put in. While somebody may buy a bitcoin for $1 and then sell it for $200, no value was added in this process, so it is simply a transfer of wealth.

So like 90%+ of what the stock market does then?

Re:The Bitcoin Report 2 [pdf] by el_senor_duerpo on Saturday April 13, 2013 @05:59PM (#5544834)
Sure, lots of the stock market is arbitrage. While bubbles form in different markets, they are all eventually followed by a correction. The problem with bitcoin is that there is no fundamental asset underlying the currency. So when there's a correction, there's no sense of where the bottom is.