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huh? they're talking about starting this with 200k worth, I though (1M shares at 0.2 BTC each).

On Bitstamp right now "A market order to sell 200000.0000 USD worth of bitcoins right now would sell 639.80163 bitcoins and would take the last price down to 310.7300 USD, resulting in an average price of 312.5969 USD/BTC."

Ticker last is currently $315.15, so just dumping it on a public market orderbook would only cost you two tents of one percent.

One million would cost you 2% in market movement. Four million would cost you 10% in market movement.

So that gives you some boundaries on how much volume you're talking before "just press sell" is no longer a reasonable sales strategy.



"1M shares at 0.2 BTC each" is correct, but that's 200k BTC or roughly $60 million at current prices. The S-1 was originally drafted when BTC was at ~$100 back in June 2013.




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