Bitcoin Futures market already larger than spot market?

in #bitcoin5 years ago

Bitcoin and Ether are basically the only two coins with regulated futures

And the volumes really aren't very close.

As you can see below, bitcoin currently does significantly more volume both in the spot markets and the futures markets compared to ether:

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What is interesting is that the futures market is now larger than the spot market for bitcoin.

That is amazing to me that has already happened!