When Coinbase goes public later this year, Brian Armstrong should give a big hat tip to CME on direct listing day. Coinbase wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today without CME's massive institutional Bitcoin futures market. A thread:
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Without CME's futures market, institutions wouldn't be able to trade Bitcoin as freely or in the same kind of size, and HFT wouldn't have a clean way to arbitrage high-information trades. Volumes & market share on Coinbase would be nowhere near what they are today.
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