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Technical Support / Re: Some questions about the MPA peg mechanism
« on: June 03, 2015, 07:57:49 pm »
Thanks for the replies, and thanks in particular to pointing me toward those 2.0 proposals.

I like Bytemaster's proposal a lot.

It seems like depending on the demand for currency to drive demand for BitUSD and giving up the interest (though that would of course have been nice for the lones) gives shorts a much better deal, and on top of that allowing shorts to avoid forced covers simply by adding more collateral than the next person in line is a smart strategy. It gives BTS Bulls a way to lever their position without paying interest, which is probably a good deal despite the risk of a forced cover.

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Technical Support / Some questions about the MPA peg mechanism
« on: June 02, 2015, 08:59:16 pm »
I am sure that somewhere on these forums at least some of these questions have been answered, but my searches have not revealed satisfactory answers. If anyone can point me in the right direction, of course that is appreciated as much as a direct answer.

My question is as follows:

There seems to be a crucial asymmetry here. Shorts are required to cover every 30 days, and yet bitUSD holders need not sell... Ever. If  bitUSD is intended to be used as a saving/spending tool rather than a speculative one, there will surely be a significant quantity of bitUSD floating around that no one (at least initially) intends to sell.
 
Ergo, and from what I understand this is indeed happening, it seems like there will be an accumulation of buy orders for bitUSD coming just from the shorts to cover their positions, and there will necessarily not be enough supply to meet the demand. How will this not drive the price of bitUSD above $1?

At first glance this might not seem to be a problem, but that would not only mean that we don't have a working peg (which defeats the purpose of this whole enterprise) but that shorting becomes a losing proposition in anything other than a protracted BTS bull market. This means a further contraction of the money supply as fewer bitUSD are generated, and we see a runaway short squeeze. This further destabilizes bitUSD and destroys its utility as a stable store of value.

It seems that the above situation could be triggered very easily, but would be nearly impossible to fix.

What am I missing?

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On a seperate note, would I be correct in assuming that shorting BitUSD and other MPA's is not currently possible on the Web Wallet interface?

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