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Posted: Dec 31st 2007 7:37PM GreenArmadillo said

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This is me eyeballing the graph, since I don't have the underlying dataset, but it looks like the average daily transaction value for the pre-ban time period is somewhere around US $1.7 million per day (am I really reading that number correctly?), there was a brief transaction spike after the ban (one might guess this represents casino owners divesting themselves of their assets rather than re-purposing their property), and then the average settled down somewhere around 1.2 million (again, give or take). Is there actually a significant change in the MONTHLY average transactions (which would help to normalize for off days like holidays) since the initial spike settled down that shows an upward trend?

Regardless, and again this is based on eyeball numbers so I'd be curious to hear what the real results are, it looks like nearly a third of the business that was transacted on the exchange prior to the ban was gambling related.

I'm not surprised to see transactions hold relatively constant even with a drop in active users - it isn't your least active users that are collectively spending over a million dollars a day (again, this figure boggles my mind), it's your most active ones.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2007 7:42PM (Unverified) said

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These aren't exchange transactions - which are exempt from the data-set. These are user-to-user transactions. Sales, purchases and gifts.
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