0 sats \ 1 reply \ @lawndough 16 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: BREAKING: 🇺🇸Coinbase approved to offer #Bitcoin    futures trading in the U.S. bitcoin
I guess what’s the difference between this and the bitcoin futures ETFs that were approved in 2021?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @brianh 16 Aug 2023
So these aren't ETFs, you'll actually be able to trade futures contracts on the trading platform itself.
What that means is you can manually create longs/shorts on a CEX vs buying and holding an ETF from a stock exchange.
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