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by AnIrishDuck 4746 days ago
> It's denominated in USD already, so increases in USD should be priced in.

No, as explained in the other comment.

> Also, Silk Road has become a small part of bitcoin transactions.

Citation? Also, I was using Silk Road as an example; any transaction which is denominated in USD and simply uses bitcoin as a proxy would further this phenomena. Many places that "accept" bitcoin only do so temporarily. They immediately convert any received bitcoins into USD. The EFF is one such example [1].

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoi...