BTC - what is it good for?

$25 dollar ticks is crazy to me too. Micro ETH futures look nice as well and both have decent open interest.

Pricing BTC as CDS seems like complete nonsense to me though.

I don't even see why crypto has to be good for anything other than a new type of trading game that is not linked to anything economic. In my view that is basically what it is with all kinds of childish and naive economic narratives added to explain the trading game after the fact.

We tend to have respect for the game of poker without pretending some economic problem is being solved by playing the game. You also never see people foaming at the mouth making proclamations on what a giant Ponzi scheme the poker economy is even though there is absolutely no fundamental value to playing the game of poker.

syswizard said:
Bitcoin futures (BTC) move nicely on the CME....great for trading.
Only problem is the margin requirement...almost $25,000.
You can move to the EMicro contract(MBT) which is 1/50th of the big boy.
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vandelay said:
Why is it so hard to call a Ponzi scheme a Ponzi scheme?
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It does have a usage, tho, it's only for the criminals/shadow economy.

,,But what if the goverment fre..."

But what if one John Wick movie too many.
 
One of the only benefits of bitcoin (well, Blockchain really) is that so many criminals thought that their transactions were anonymous when they weren't. A lot of criminals have been caught through bitcoin tracking software. (Also, American courts have ruled that the 4th Amendment does not apply to blockchain tracking by law enforcement.) So, that is one positive.
 
"With roughly $23 trillion of U.S. government bonds outstanding, if every single bond owned was insured, it would cost $73 billion annually. That’s hardly pricing in a zero percent chance of default."

What a bunch of nonsense. So you could theoretically insure all US bonds for less than 1% but that somehow implies a significant risk? The author clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

From the seller side, the whole point of insurance is to collect premiums. The price will NEVER go to zero even if insuring against an impossible event.

You can always count on Bitcoin evangelists for financially illiterate nonsense like this.

Stating that Bitcoin is equivalent to buying a CDS is a huge leap they don't bother to substantiate. How can they be sure Bitcoin wouldn't go down, like it did when SPY went down? If a financial apocalypse happens, there might be a lot less people with money to "invest" in Bitcoin, and at the same time many sellers trying to meet their expenses. You can't assume a financial apocalypse where GDP stays the same.
 
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