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the fledgling crypto options ecosystem at a glance

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May 24, 2019
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Your daily snapshot from the OnChainFX markets dashboard.

What do Thales of Miletus and hedge fund managers have in common?

They use derivatives to speculate on the future.

In pre-Socratic Greece, Thales believed a bountiful olive harvest was on its way. He went to the owners of the olive presses and paid them a fraction of the cost of the equipment for th…

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