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Old 04-05-2011, 07:02 PM  
Sunny Day
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Originally Posted by MyBitcoin View Post
That doesn't prove anything.
It is true that the exchange rate can be volatile at times. You have to keep in mind that this is still a fairly new currency. Usually the rate seems to hover around $0.75 per Bitcoin most of the time. What happened yesterday was an anomaly (someone probably sold a LOT of them all at once) and the price quickly recovered.
The Mt Gox dark pool allows you to buy or sell large quantities of BTC without moving the market.

You can mark any buy or sell order with a value over $1000 as being in the dark pool.

Orders in the dark pool don't show up on the order book.

There are 2 types of dark pool orders.
Dark pool and Normal - Can be filled either partially from the normal orders or the dark pool.
Dark pool Only - Can be filled only by other dark pool orders or a single normal order that is larger than the dark pool order. This means that if there is a single normal order that would fill the dark pool order both will be filled.
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