Category: 6. How to earn from Contango
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Perpetual Bitcoin Futures & Funding Rates
Most of the large cryptocurrency exchanges offer what are known as Perpetual Future Contracts. These are far more fluid than the fixed variety from the CME because they are updated every eight hours with what is known as the funding rate. The funding rate is essentially what it will cost you to borrow a specific…
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Futures & Bitcoin’s Path to Mature Asset
Futures are a type of financial derivative that enables you to buy and sell based on what you think the price of an asset will be at some point in the future. They are a necessary feature of any maturing asset as a control of manipulation and volatility, and a means of hedging risk. Futures…
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What is Contango?
Bitcoin contango might sound like a weird kind of dance that happens at crypto parties, it is actually a way of capturing the value of holding Bitcoin but offsetting the risks of volatility. ContangoContango, also known as a cash and carry trade, is a way to earn a premium for owning an asset in a rising market…
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How to earn from Contango
What you’ll learn What is Bitcoin Contango How Bitcoin Futures work Capturing a low-risk premium for holding Bitcoin Learn crypto is targeted at newcomers to cryptocurrency, and this section, all about how you can earn crypto, has been structured to gradually build risk tolerance and complexity. If you’ve followed the learning path this far, you’re ready…