exchanges – Can I purchase/promote quite a lot of bitcoins with out shifting the value?
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I’m interested by the way to purchase quite a lot of bitcoins (or equally transfer quite a lot of bitcoins) with out hitting the bid/ask
I do not care about blockexplorer, I’m simply interested by worth discovery
are there any darkpools? might I simply use an illiquid alternate and personally contact the counterparty and have them take the commerce
choices can be good too, this might make buying bitcoins at a sure strike simpler as that is already a negotiation between the individual on the opposite facet of the contract
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It will not work, regardless of the way you do it. If you happen to purchase quite a lot of Bitcoins, that can imply that lots of people who needed to do away with their Bitcoins not wish to do away with their Bitcoins. Thus, they may cease supplying them. The discount in provide will transfer the bid/ask costs. It is elementary economics and you may’t change it.
answered Sep 10 ’11 at 23:29
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There’s a option to purchase quite a lot of bitcoins with out instantly affecting the value, and that’s to purchase mining tools or contracts. Relying on the worth of bitcoin and the price of your contract, you might be able to purchase bitcoins for about the identical quantity as you’ll when you purchased them on the open market, nevertheless, you wouldn’t purchase them immediately.
There are clearly different components to think about when utilizing this technique.
answered Sep 11 ’11 at 2:56
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We do that on a regular basis within the monetary business. It is referred to as iceberging:
Some markets enable darkish liquidity to be posted inside the prevailing restrict order guide alongside public liquidity, normally by way of using iceberg orders. Iceberg orders usually specify a further “show amount”—i.e., smaller than the general order amount. The order is queued together with different orders however solely the show amount is printed to the market depth. When the order reaches the entrance of its worth queue, solely the show amount is stuffed earlier than the order is robotically put in the back of the queue and should look forward to its subsequent likelihood to get a fill. Such orders will, subsequently, get stuffed much less rapidly than the totally public equal, they usually usually carry an specific value penalty within the kind of a bigger execution value charged by the market. Iceberg orders aren’t really darkish both, because the commerce is normally seen after the actual fact available in the market’s public commerce feed.
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answered Apr 13 ’13 at 8:19
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Any massive sufficient transaction ought to transfer the value, even whether it is in some way “off the grid” although in that case it could transfer the value later. This could additionally apply with some other foreign exchange commerce the distinction is that the quantity of liquidity within the bitcoin market is by comparability very small. To purchase $100,000 in bitcoin would most likely be a really massive a part of a day’s buying and selling, whereas in a market like say EURUSD you might commerce $100,000,000 with out it being a very big transaction. It’s simply concerning the ratio of the scale of the commerce vs the whole market.
answered Feb 4 ’12 at 19:37
As David talked about, the market worth might be influenced regardless. If you need to doubtlessly reduce / delay your transaction’s affect in the marketplace, I can assume of some strategies.
I feel one of the best ways to obscure your purchase can be to search out somebody within the #bitcoin-otc who’s is promoting a big amount. You possibly can then organize some deal to not communicate publicly concerning the transaction.
I feel this could be what you wish to do.
I could possibly be mistaken about this minimizing affect in the marketplace worth, David certainly is aware of extra concerning the economics finish than I do.
answered Sep 11 ’11 at 0:52
To perform that you would need to discover an individual who can be prepared to promote you an enormous quantity of Bitcoins outdoors of the market. This could be onerous, as a result of lots of people are afraid of scams, however it’s actually possible. Nonetheless, one of the best wager to get quite a lot of Bitcoins with out influencing their worth (or no less than not bringing the alternate price down) can be to put money into massive scale mining rigs. This strategy is slower, however attracts much less consideration. Furthermore, for the reason that issue would enhance as a result of your mining, it would positively affect the alternate price (more durable to earn cash => they’re extra beneficial).
answered Sep 11 ’11 at 14:46
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The fact is that we do not have superior sufficient monetary merchandise nor a complicated sufficient market to permit bulk transactions to happen and not using a worth affect. The market is just too skinny and darkish swimming pools are not possible as a result of each single transaction is each broadcast and verified.
If a considerable amount of Bitcoins are all of a sudden transferred from a single account, then everybody is aware of in ten minutes. Accounts must be extremely divested and decentralized to cover a bulk transaction. Thus, the analogue to Iceberging. I can think about a specialised set of market actors providing this service for giant cap traders, however truthfully we’d like choices to commerce danger approach earlier than we fear about massive transactions.
My recommendation to anybody who holds a number of thousand Bitcoins who obtained in early is to properly divest till they’ve recouped their preliminary funding after which undertake worth factors to slowly liquidate their holdings. It is a deflationary forex. The worth has to go up if it’ll survive. Don’t be concerned about each day fluctuations.
answered Apr 17 ’13 at 18:36
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Excessive quantity merchants can apply for a “darkish web” account with Mt. Gox. I imagine you qualify for the sort of account when you commerce over 1,000 BTC per thirty days. (One thing like that, I am unable to discover the precise specs at first look.) You too can make in-person trades of digital or bodily wallets, which might be “off the grid” within the sense you might be talking of.
answered Sep 11 ’11 at 8:47
