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by soneca 3124 days ago
What financial mechanisms exist to short Bitcoin?
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Here's an idea. Ethereum smart contracts to short bitcoin. You borrow my BTC for 30 days, with a 5% fee. Someone could make a killing off of that idea.
https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/introducing-dydx-2d0f0f32...

Note: I'm not affiliated with that project, but I did see them present yesterday at Token Summit and it looked very interesting!

This is more of a general purpose app, but would work.

https://gofreakingdoit.com/

Possibly at bitmex: https://www.bitmex.com/

CBOE and CME to offer the next couple weeks.

I used to short/long bitcoin/eth on GDAX, you have to register as a business and turn on Margin Trading
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