Alex Osipovich
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Dec 2017
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And there is a lot of concern out there about market manipulation.
And so when CME announced that it was going to launch Bitcoin futures, one of the big questions out there was, well, is the CFTC going to be comfortable with the risk that this contract could be manipulated?
And what they announced was that CME, along with SIBO, the other futures exchange that wants to launch Bitcoin futures, that these exchanges had agreed to enter into information sharing agreements with the underlying Bitcoin exchanges.
What that basically means is that they committed to the regulator that they're going to very closely monitor what happens in the underlying Bitcoin market and what they will keep an eye out for any sort of red flags that any sort of manipulative activity could be happening.
You know, it's hard to read, but my feeling of it is that the regulatory process was sort of
plodding along at its own pace even before Bitcoin cracked through the 10,000 mark, rocketed up to 11,300 and change, and then dropped back down and then bounced up again as it does from day to day.
This process had been going on.
In the case of CME Group, the bigger exchange here had been going on for the past six weeks.
In the case of SIBO, the smaller exchange that wants to launch Bitcoin futures, it had been going on for four months prior to Friday's announcement.
Yeah.
So that's one of the interesting things people say about Bitcoin futures.
Basically, futures allow you to short a contract, right?
So that means you can bet that it will fall.
And that means that all the people out there who are sort of Bitcoin bears and think that, you know, it's overpriced will now have a way to express their view in the marketplace.
And you'll be able to trade Bitcoin futures and sort of send a signal to the market that, you know, maybe I think it's overvalued.
And there are a lot of kind of seasoned Bitcoin traders out there who expect that this could
limit the notorious volatility of Bitcoin to some degree.
Yeah, I mean, this is a philosophical issue.
I mean, is
Is Bitcoin a store of value?
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