On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 15:39 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for proving the point. The PBA is designed to reward people who
> > fix the rates to be more correct, which is what you did just there. In
> > other words, if a rate is too high, it creates an incentive to deposit
> > and bring the rate down/stop it increasing.
> >
> > The true rate scam would have been not doing that.
>
> Except that 1) I was careful to hardly adjust the rates at all by
> depositing several different currencies at once; and 2) the rate for 1
> crops is now out-of-whack since I withdrew at a rate above what I
> would normally consider fair in order to create an artificial
> shortage.
>
Well, if you are creating an artificial shortage, someone with lots of
1s can therefore make a profit at your expense by depositing them.
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ais523
