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Whom am I buying bitcoin futures from?
Chak is not entirely correct. The exchange is the matching engine, but there will be someone else on the other side of the trade. The exchange does not have its own position in futures.
That said, ...
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Transaction in future
About the phrasing, there is really no "plan" on Bitcoin as there would be if a centralised authority governed the protocol. Instead, there are proposals and sometimes supermajority ...
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How does a perpetual futures contract affects the actual price?
The majority of volume is traded via perpetual swaps, hence the majority of belief of the commodity price must lie in those perpetual swaps. For this to be true, it would mean that the perpetual swap ...
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What is the differences in Bitcoin derivative products such as perpetual vs futures?
Futures are derivative instruments used to lock in a price of a security at a predetermined future date and price. The price that you buy a future indicate the price of what Bitcoin would be say 3 ...
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The Bitcoin Network
A misunderstanding. Blocks will continue to be mined after the last new bitcoin is delivered as a block reward several years from now. Miners are also paid any transaction fees as well as the block ...
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Why doesn't the price of the bitcoin perpetual future equal the price of bitcoin?
Other than shares, bitcoins can be held directly by the owner of the asset. In contrast, a Bitcoin future is a voucher for some bitcoins issued by a third-party. As we have learned time and again, “...
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Whom am I buying bitcoin futures from?
You buy from a seller. Technically you are entering into a contract to buy at a specified future time at a specified price. The exchange is an intermediary which facilities the transaction and acts to ...
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can somone create guaranteed future transaction?
You can create a transaction that has a lock time set. If a transaction has a lock time, it cannot be confirmed until after the lock time has passed. This mostly meets the first constraint.
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