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>You don't need it if you're short, because you get your payout immediately when you go short I don't know of any exchange that would let you withdraw premium before the short position was closed/expired. If you thoug
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4y ago
>1. Is that actually what happened? Yes, this is our best guess based on all current facts. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-09/bankma... "The problem is that FTX took its customers’
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4y ago
You need whichever exchange you entered the position on to exist, and ensure payout when the position is closed/expired. FTX is irrelevant. If the exchange is doing it's job properly, it would ensure there's a long position f
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4y ago
CME futures. Go for it. If you thought a fraudulent non-US centralized exchange blowing up would cause it to drop below $100, you may not know anything about bitcoin.
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FTX Faces Liquidity Shortfall of Up to $8B
(twitter.com)
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There's a balance sheet floating around: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dSG6ER9N_YABnmUKzKae... Source: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1590384255091499008 Could be fake.
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4y ago
We (the public) don't yet know how bad it is. CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong said he was also not interested in an acquisition after a small amount of DD. He said we will likely find out how bad it is eventually.
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4y ago
They said "...a browser with ublock origin.." uBlock Origin is a content blocker that would help prevent tracking.
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4y ago
That says more about media outlets like Fortune, than "SV fintech." It seems like you're using that as a way to describe a single entity. Many people in crypto saw him as a snake.
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4y ago
>...What really amazes me about the whole thing is that after celcius and now ftx, tether manages to have peoples' trust... I've never held/used Tether, and that won't change. There's no reason to use it. However
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4y ago
>It's literally about how options traders and the like can be lucky for 10 or 20 years I don't see how doing anything successfully (in this case, gaining profit?) for 20 years can be described as "luck." Surviving
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I have no doubt that anybody that had access to pre-release allocations were well aware of the risks. Net worth was likely checked. They don't need to be treated like a child. Probably a civil matter anyway - no expectation of jail, wh
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May not be an issue if shorting via CME BTC/ETH futures.
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4y ago
I don’t know how likely it is, but if binance does complete the acquisition, maybe it can be converted to BNB?
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4y ago
Nobody knows. Lots of rumors. Few facts.
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4y ago
Did AH take money from retail investors? I suppose you can claim they pumped these products. I'm not convinced it's any different than what happens with an IPO that started with VC money. I'm not saying it's good, just t
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4y ago
I think Alameda only held those positions in service to their market making operations, not FTX operations. The line between where FTX starts and Alameda ends always confused me.
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https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590012133307478016 >Note that http://FTX.us and http://Binance.us – two separate companies–are not currently impacted by this. http://FTX.