Quote from: Magic8Ball on March 06, 2012, 10:45 pmQuote from: rise_against on March 04, 2012, 04:05 ami'm wondering how much impact SR has to do with the price of bitcoins, and as vendors, if we would all decide to hold all our coins for a couple/few weeks just to see what would happen to the value of the coin. how many vendors out there would be willing to do this? perhaps we could drive up the value of the market and increase our profits. . . just a thought.What will you then say about the resulting rise in cost of escrow?First of all I think you are talking about hedging, not escrow (escrow is just the holding of funds by a non-interested third party until the buyer signs off on the seller meeting the conditions of the agreement satisfactoriliy).hedging costs will stay the same as, as far as my own understanding of the hedging operation goes, the pool is adjusted for USD/BTC right away, so you are basically just getting charged a trade fee of <0.5% on either side plus a liquidity/slippage fee. It will still be 2% either side of the transaction (BTC-->USD while in escrow USD-->BTC when completed).