There are no shorts because both have black-swanned early this year. Interestingly, the markets seem to be ignoring this.
can you elaborate on what you mean by "the markets seem to be ignoring this"? is there a more efficient position the market can take on bit.GOLD currently?
http://cryptofresh.com/a/GOLDSettlement price is 4,753 BTS/GOLD, that's the exact amount of available backing collateral per bitGOLD.
However, market price is around 10,000 BTS/bitGOLD with a significant spread (highest buy is offering more than 9,500 BTS).
The bitGold and bitSilver are not any longer backed by BTS or no longer need to be backed by BTS because of the black swan?
How was the black swan solved?
Each bitGOLD is backed by 4,753 BTS. The black swan was not resolved, it still persists.
The black swan comes when one collateral is under the ratio of one. Are they any thoughts how we can prevent the market from an individual?
Maybe we should set the min. call ratio to 2.0 for bitSilver, bitGold and bitBTC?
Changing MCR at this time will not help.
How can we increase the supply of bitGold and bitSilver without borrowing?
We can't. They need to be revived first, which is unlikely to happen before BTS price recovers to the level it had earlier this year.