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December 8, 2018 07:04 pm
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Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless
"The biggest-ever bet on Bitcoin options is about to expire worthless," reports Bloomberg:Purchased for almost $1 million on LedgerX's trading platform just days after Bitcoin peaked a year ago, the call options have a strike price of $50,000 and an expiry date of Dec. 28, 2018. For the contracts to retain any value at expiry, Bitcoin would need to rally more than 1,400 percent. The options' almost certain wipeout is a less-than-ideal outcome for the buyer, but it may not be quite as bad as it seems. Ari Paul, a cryptocurrency fund manager at BlockTower Capital, has indicated that he bought the options while simultaneously selling some of his fund's Bitcoin holdings... He later tweeted that the trade -- selling some of his Bitcoin holdings while buying the call options -- was profitable.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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