Date: June 24th, 2018 4:13 PM Author: Maroon sandwich
Cost of mining a single BTC is $6K...If historical ratios hold along with 6K BTC floor, days of $100 ETH may be gone. Like it or not, BTC is considered a commodity to which the entire crypto market is tied
Date: June 24th, 2018 6:17 PM Author: Maroon sandwich
Until there are dapps, Eth is riding Btc coattails. And if the whole currency idea never takes off at least Btc can hold value as a commodity/digital gold
Date: June 24th, 2018 8:49 PM Author: Narrow-minded flesh location
Its not a commodity like oil that will find its price at the lowest marginal producer (even if it was, that could be in China at $3,000, not $6,000). Its price is whatever buyers and sellers determine, which could easily fall beneath production.
Date: June 25th, 2018 12:53 PM Author: Maroon sandwich
This is what happened yesterday when we went sub 6k...they don't mine if it's not profitable. Any commodity can be sold for an agreed upon price below production cost. The utility of BTC is really the more questionable component of the equation.
Tether production conveniently kicks in when mining profitability declines.