How to Short Bitcoin
A whole lot of Bitcoin holders have made bank on the cryptocurrency's recent meteoric rise. But is it possible to make money from a falling Bitcoin price? Well, it is now! But let's start at the beginning, by defining terms. In trading, a bet that price will fall is called a "short." This is the opposite of a "long," which is buying something in the expectation of a future price rise. Probably a lot of people reading this are long cryptocurrency, or at least thinking of going long. The old joke for people who've bet the farm on a long position is that they're "long like John" (Holmes, the....
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