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Re:Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex by Blackthorn on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:04PM (#16468476)
It's not exactly the same but some futures exchanges offer crypto futures for Bitcoin and Etherium. They're cash settled though.

That's really nice because at least you don't have appreciable risk from the exchange itself when you use CFE from your usual broker.

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Re:Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex by sitepodmatt on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:50PM (#16470759)
You kind of do have some risk that doens't exist in trading normal equities etc.., there's usually an unexpected drop in BTC price once a bitcoin exchange hack is frontpaged.
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Re:Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex by Blackthorn on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:34AM (#16471496)
There's plenty of risk inherent in Bitcoin itself, but at least with Bitcoin futures there isn't the risk of the exchange itself just running off with your money or your goods (as has happened many, many times in the history of Bitcoin).
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