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The Benefits of Futures Contracts

Digiconomist August 22, 2014 Investing & Trading

Earlier this month, Chinese cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin announced it was launching Bitcoin Futures trading. It is one of many financial derivatives making its way to cryptocurrency markets.

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It is well known that replacing the energy intensive mining mechanism in cryptocurrencies can make them significantly more sustainable, but it has also been argued this can make them less decentralized/secure. Digiconomist now features a new deep dive to examine this argument:

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Bitcoin has failed to become a global decentralised digital currency, instead falling victim to fraud and manipulation.

The recent approval of an ETF doesn’t change the fact that Bitcoin is costly, slow and inconvenient, argues #TheECBBlog

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