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I wonder how this all will work with such huge transaction delays.

• jcousins 9y ago
  All settled in dollars AFAIK.
  • chvid 9y ago
    Yes - you will be able to trade much faster than if bitcoins actually changed hands. One thing this allows is shorting - unclear what it means wrt current price.
• kss238 9y ago
  They're trading futures not bitcoins directly.
  • shortoncash 9y ago
    This doesn't matter. The HFT arbitrage guys (if they haven't already) will move in to bring the other components of the fragmented market inline. This is just a natural progression with markets becoming more efficient.
• alwaysnotright 9y ago
  If I understood it correctly, futures won't have any actual transferring of bitcoins so it doesn't matter really.