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I have a question. Is BTC inherently crash resistant right now? Due to the difficulties of withdrawing large amounts of money at once from BTC, wouldn't that make the currency pretty resistant to a crash?


Which difficulties? When you sell on coinbase they ACH you your dollars within 2 business days. The problems you're talking about only affect a single exchange (MtGox) out of many.


No. Lack of liquidity makes it more prone to crashing and the friction between the Bitcoin world and the real financial system makes it slow for people to add liquidity (for example, exchanges cannot receive wire transfers on the weekend).




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