Refers to the use of futures contracts in the context of Bitcoin. Do not use for questions about the future as in developments that may yet come to pass.
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How to read bitcoin future report?
The CBOE website features a report on Bitcoin futures containing:
Symbol Last Change Volume
XBT/F8 18090.00 +1290.00 1515
I understand:
XBT is bitcoin, F8 means Jan 2018.
But what do “last 18090” and “volume…
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How do you sign up for the Bakkt exchange to trade Bitcoin Futures?
With the recent launch of the Bakkt exchange. How do you sign up for this exchange or is this exclusively for institutions and not for individuals? There is no sign up option anywhere on their site.
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Market manipulation of spot prices to profit from Bitcoin Futures
Bitcoin futures are derivative instruments based on a closing Bitcoin price. Is it possible for traders of Bitcoin futures to manipulate the closing Bitcoin price in order to profit from their Bitcoin futures position?
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Impact of Future Blocks on Bitcoin
The Bitcoin protocol limits the timestamp of future blocks to be at most 2 hours greater than the current time. If this time limit were increased, let's say to 8 hours, what impact would it have on the Bitcoin network?
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