This would definitely boost up the price of bitcoin by a lot. Institutional investors' money now pouring into bitcoin is a good thing: wealth would somehow be distributed around and would cause another ATH for sure.
No it won't.
The ones that have money to pour in now are the ones that get richer.
The ones that have only a few savings and can't afford to take a risk, nor they have access to investments will be left behind.
Bitcoin is not a social tool and nothing even remotely close to a socialist one to redistribute wealth across the world.
And the best example for that is if you take a look at the mining.
In the past only the richest, the ones with money could start a bank. Now only the ones with money can afford to buy a miner.
Who earned in the past from fees? Who is earning now?
Maybe bitcoin was designed with something else in mind but right now it is only making rich people richer.
That's a really good question, and I would like to see the opinion of some experienced users in this forum, with knowledge about financial markets. Every time i read something about this subject, people say they it's hard to know what will happen, and how futures trading will relate to bitcoin price. When they are buying futures, they don't need to acquire any bitcoins, so buying or selling does not have a direct impact on the supply and demand of bitcoin. So I really don't understand how it will relate.
Also, the futures market will be regulated, and the bitcoin market is free, so I think they are planning to restrict the BTC futures variations, but they can't do that to the bitcoin price.
1. Of course it is hard to know. If the futures markets would be easy to predict there would be no future markets at all.
2. They do have to own those coins when the they reach the expiry date.
As for the last paragraph , that puzzles me also. Especially with the tarding being stopped on normal markets for holidays, weekend while being on 31
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