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Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin Is a ‘Ponzi Game’ by sodastream on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:17PM (#7373779)
Isn't 80% of world wide used currency all speculation and only 20% used in services and products ?

I'm talking about the trillions of derivatives market ..

Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin Is a ‘Ponzi Game’ by pjc50 on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:31PM (#7373897)
That depends on whether you mean "M0" or "M3".

Retail payments are now a little over 50% electronic: http://www.paymentscouncil.org.uk/media_centre/press_release... , so that's bank money rather than paper/metal currency.

Forex trading is huge: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forex-market-size-traders-adva... : again, held on account rather than actual notes and coins changing hands. That's not even counting derivatives, but derivatives usually net out (for every put option there is a call option) and don't necessarily require settlement.

However, there's enough of a real market and taxation demand denominated in the US dollar that it's not going anywhere any time soon. The ECD made enough of a commitment to Euro liquidity that it's not going away any time soon.

Bitcoin's market cap is still tiny enough that it could be demolished by a single bored FX trader in an afternoon; but there's no real way to profit from that, as doing so would also demolish the fragile exchanges by which you might cash out.

Re:Nouriel Roubini: Bitcoin Is a ‘Ponzi Game’ by sodastream on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:00PM (#7374107)
Interesting. Thanks.