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did you just dox yourself?
Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:03AM (#16411661)
HN gave me a link to a Bitcoin-Article back in June 2016. Well, i got intruiged and gave it a chance. Thank You HN!
Why does noone support BitMEX? Derivatives are expicially interesting when it comes to taxation.
Re:Bitcoin May Split Many Times in 2018 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:29AM (#16221230)
Well at least for bitcoin there's a nice summary by BitMEX Research [1]

[1] https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-consensus-forks/

The advantage of bitcoin is that it's censorship resistant and descentralised. I don't know of any other knock off cryptocurrency that does fulfill these two aspects.
Re:Bitcoin Takes Bigger Wall Street Stage with Smooth CME Debut on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:34AM (#15958666)
BitMEX Research continues to do very smart and sophisticated observations in the crypto space. Regarding your question you might want to have a look at this specific blog entry https://blog.bitmex.com/value_proposition/
BitMEX is offering BTC Futures since 2014 for joes like me and you. Only caveat: your profits and losses are all realized in bitcoin.
> if the bitcoin is keep rising in price , trader needs to supply more money to meet the margin call

This can get quite expensive.