Some thoughts:

The premium seems to be "the cost of securing collateral and preventing black swans"

Premium is not good for shorters, but good for the blockchain.

Shorters may seem disadvantaged, and actually it is true. But they are also disadvantaged in traditional markets, ie you need to pay interest on margin loans

The problem is many of the parameters are not "locked in" by the code, they can be changed any time

Ah, so you're saying because it is preferable to be long gold, then less people are willing to short it? HMM... interesting answer

yo bitcrab will BSIP42 be implemented on all committee bitassets?

Quote from: bench on September 27, 2018, 01:25:20 am

There are no margin positions on bitGold or bitSilver now.

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?

Yes that's what I'm saying, it's a chicken and egg problem. But I'm asking why you would borrow bitFIAT that is depreciating over time when you can borrow bitGOLD (if we assume its liquid)

too complicated, fee is already very low. If they raise it though your suggestion may be good

ya that's exactly what we are saying @johnr