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by johnnienaked 165 days ago
Margin requirements for trading spot are zero, though initial capital requirements are obviously, well, whatever spot is.

Futures contracts aren't just pieces of paper traded between people, they are actual promises to pay for physical delivery of the underlying.

It's not surprising to me that crypto people consider them nothing more than leveraged gambling slips but that's really not how one should think about them. Personally I think crypto needs far heavier regulation than it gets.

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Ever heard of liquidations?