How was "happiness" not in the wordlist of 80K words including "aahing?"

CFD's can be done between two people with no middleman, and it's been done more than once on these forums.

The thing is that a CFD locks in your "repay" price for free, while the call option locks in the maximum repay price at a cost. In this way, the CFD is less gamble-y.

Say you take out a 100 BTC loan when BTC is $10 (because nobody else will give you it in USD anyways...) and sell it for 1000 USD, because you can't buy XYZ with BTC. It makes sense to also get a 100 BTC CFD and take the long position:
BTC goes up by $3. You make $300 USD, it costs $1300 to get 100 BTC. You pay $1000.
BTC goes down by $3. you lose $300 USD, but it costs $700 to get 100 BTC. You pay $1000.
Hedge successful!

With baskets, you need more money to buy them. Having a basket is less useful than bridging finance between jobs. If a 1 BTC shortcoin is $30, how can this help you hedge at all?

There's also options; someone taking out a loan in BTC could buy a call option.

I ran through 80,000 words and didn't find it 
Can you give us another hint to help us "use our minds?" Basically any noun could fit your question.

After some thinking, I like raw CFD's the best. There is the risk that the opposite party won't pay, but what's the point of having a shortcoin if it cost you 3 BTC?

I like it. If I take out a loan denominated in BTC and sell the BTC, I want to be long to hedge against a price increase. Similarly, if I buy bitcoins just to invest them with PatrickHarnett, I want to be short to hedge against a price decrease. The idea is sound, except for the backdrop risk.

Aww, my bot is only halfway through the 80K wordlist

The question is, which paste site earns more for the pasters? Woohoo, competition!

Is it case-sensitive?

Yeah I was looking at USD CD's lately...
5 year super-cd with a minimum of 100K...
wait for it...
1% APY

/facepalm

That's right. Interesting. It would only work if the bond was sold by the issuer to a consumer paying with interest, though. Hmm

I hate to say it, but we need something like Bitcoinica. You could have taken out a long and been fine when USD/BTC doubled, and I could have taken out a short and been covered when BTC dropped from 15 to 8 (For the record, I actually sold at 15, but holding BTC does make me want to hedge a bit.)

Interesting that there's an exact negative correlation between credit score and interest rate: pick any two deposit takers with a different credit rating, and the one with the higher rating offers a lower interest rate.

It's entirely understandable though.

Lol, at least they're better than Fox

just go on a terminal/shell/command prompt and type "gpg --clearsign"

Freenode doesn't require a password. It provides NickServ, which does use passwords; you can Google for information about that. If you've been away for a long time, freenode staff will drop the nick for you.

Have you done what I said? The bonds couldn't be purchased for less than face value, so they do represent actual investments, not just interest.

Type ;;guide on the channel; it's a pretty comprehensive overview. There's also this (shameless plug): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98574.0

For the progressive games, does the house ensure that Jackpot * Win_Odds < Bet_Unit ?