How to short bitcoin ?

[Hoi]

Does this not shout screaming short...

Pff.... on the contrary (your chart looks like "the end of a short-leg period").

Fundamentally: number-of-Consumers-using as well as the number-of-Merchants-accepting Bitcoin grows 12 to 20% each month, and it doesn't show a slow down!
Where do you find any product or any economy growing this strong? And this while we are still in embryonic-stage!

Here is the chart I'm looking at:

 

[peilthetraveler]

Does this not shout screaming short...

Does this not shout screaming short? Because we KNOW how this turned out 6 months later.

 

[just21]

This same pattern keeps repeating in bitcoin. No central bank to take smooth the volatility.

 

[gwb-trading]

Pff.... on the contrary (your chart looks like "the end of a short-leg period").

Fundamentally: number-of-Consumers-using as well as the number-of-Merchants-accepting Bitcoin grows 12 to 20% each month, and it doesn't show a slow down!
Where do you find any product or any economy growing this strong? And this while we are still in embryonic-stage!

Here is the chart I'm looking at:

Growth of 12% to 20% of a very small number of merchants who take Bitcoins is nearly meaningless. That's like comparing my monthly mortgage payment amount to the total amount of worldwide monthly banking transactions.

The other thing to consider is that most of the merchants accepting Bitcoins never have anyone come into their shop paying with Bitcoins. We had a pizza shop owner our RTP area of North Carolina loudly appear in the media stating he would accept Bitcoins. Three months later he had to admit that not a single customer ever showed up and paid with Bitcoins - and this is in the tech savvy Research Triangle Park area.

 

[Hoi]

Growth of 12% to 20% of a very small number of merchants who take Bitcoins is nearly meaningless. That's like comparing my monthly mortgage payment amount to the total amount of worldwide monthly banking transactions.
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Indeed! It just tells us how MUCH upside there is...we are just embryonic.

The other thing to consider is that most of the merchants accepting Bitcoins never have anyone come into their shop paying with Bitcoins. We had a pizza shop owner our RTP area of North Carolina loudly appear in the media stating he would accept Bitcoins. Three months later he had to admit that not a single customer ever showed up and paid with Bitcoins - and this is in the tech savvy Research Triangle Park area.

LOL, just ask Overstock.com and TigerDirect.com (and it will not take long before eBay will join).

 

[FireWalker]

How to short Bitcoin:

Borrow some Bitcoin from someone and pay them some interest for the use of their capital.

 

[Pekelo]

(and it will not take long before eBay will join).

Ebay owns Paypal, bitcoin competes with Paypal....

 

[Hoi]

Ebay owns Paypal, bitcoin competes with Paypal....

Of course I know that.

They will find a profitable business-model that both kinds of money and companies can work together.

By the way: Carl Icahn tries to split them up....

 

[ElCubano]

Growth of 12% to 20% of a very small number of merchants who take Bitcoins is nearly meaningless. That's like comparing my monthly mortgage payment amount to the total amount of worldwide monthly banking transactions.

The other thing to consider is that most of the merchants accepting Bitcoins never have anyone come into their shop paying with Bitcoins. We had a pizza shop owner our RTP area of North Carolina loudly appear in the media stating he would accept Bitcoins. Three months later he had to admit that not a single customer ever showed up and paid with Bitcoins - and this is in the tech savvy Research Triangle Park area.

I think the above shows how much upside there still is.

 

[unregisterred]

is Kraken allowing shorts yet? has anybody shorted there? spreads, fees, etc?