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spatley on Jan 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming ...

Of course, find somebody to loan you some coin, sell it at current prices, buy some in a week when prices fall and return the coin to the lender, pocketing the price diff. Any fungible product can be shorted, all you need is a willing lender.

_glsb on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

Assume my rhetorical question boils down to “is it possible to find a willing BTC lender with a decent enough size and non loan-shark rates”?

Or even “is there a consensus yield curve for BTC?”

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