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Re: BTC Vulnerability? (Massive Attack against BTC system. Is it really?)
Bitcointalk · 2010-07-09 03:28:46 UTC
楼主描述的那种行为叫 "cornering the market"（囤积居奇、操纵市场）。当有人试图买下全世界某种稀缺资产的全部供应时，买得越多价格涨得越高。到某个点上，价格高到他们再也买不起了。这对事先持有的人来说是好事，因为他们可以把东西以离谱的高价卖给囤积者。随着价格不断上涨，总有人还在期待更高的价格而拒绝卖出。
亨特兄弟在 1979 年试图操纵白银市场，最后把自己搞破产了，这是著名案例：
"亨特兄弟 Nelson Bunker Hunt 和 Herbert Hunt 于 20 世纪 70 年代末至 80 年代初试图操纵世界白银市场，一度持有超过全球可交割白银一半的权益。[1] 在亨特兄弟囤积白银期间，银价从 1979 年 9 月的每盎司 11 美元涨到 1980 年 1 月的接近每盎司 50 美元。[2] 两个月后，银价最终暴跌到每盎司 11 美元以下，[2] 其中大部分跌幅发生在后来被称为"银色星期四"（Silver Thursday）的那一天，原因是交易所修改了关于保证金购买大宗商品的规则。[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market
英文原文
What the OP described is called "cornering the market". When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes. At some point, it gets too expensive for them to buy any more. It's great for the people who owned it beforehand because they get to sell it to the corner at crazy high prices. As the price keeps going up and up, some people keep holding out for yet higher prices and refuse to sell.
The Hunt brothers famously bankrupted themselves trying to corner the silver market in 1979:
"Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt attempted to corner the world silver markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at one stage holding the rights to more than half of the world's deliverable silver.[1] During Hunt's accumulation of the precious metal silver prices rose from $11 an ounce in September 1979 to nearly $50 an ounce in January 1980.[2] Silver prices ultimately collapsed to below $11 an ounce two months later,[2] much of the fall on a single day now known as Silver Thursday, due to changes made to exchange rules regarding the purchase of commodities on margin.[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market