Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Deal View Post

In order to sell a coin there needs to be a buyer. The exchanges of which mtgox is one of matches buyers to sellers. The buyers use real currency and receive a bitcoins in return. So the answer to your question is directly from the pre-existing assets of the buyers.
rofl holy shit, so basically the price could drop 20%, i could log in looking to panic sell, and find no buyers, and meanwhile the price continues to plummet.

oh sweet jesus thats magnificent.

or you could buy bitcoins from yourself (via say a corporate entity) and artificially drive up the price and then sell to some rubes???