points by btcskeptic 4 hours ago | 0 comments
Correct my math, but it seems like that's approx 1/3 of a percentage point of BTC's market cap at $1.56 trillion.
And the money didn't disappear; it still exists.
So: why did BTC (overall) drop by 15,000% of the actual loss (which actually isn't a loss at all to BTC as a whole)
Seems like markets are really driven more by emotion and perception than fundamentals, but I'm neither a psychologist nor a trader.
[–] olejorgenb 4 hours ago
If cryptocurrency exchanges are regularly robbed, surely that is negative for the cryptocurrency as a whole?
[–] tomtomtom777 3 hours ago
Because adding this to the recent Ledger hack, how is anybody going to keep their crypto safe?
Isn't it only going to get worse from here?
Let's say you magically come into possession of 1% of SpaceX and want to sell it quickly. The selling pressure would nosedive the price by way more than 1%. And the more the value of something is 'thin air', the bigger the effect.
I can only suppose that the people that stole these BTC will try to sell at least part of it quickly.