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 Hi Jeff, could you elaborate for dummies? 
 Sure. When you put on a trade in the future’s markets, the way that they keep the price in line with spot markets is that either the longs or the shorts have to pay the other side which keeps the price in line. So you can imagine if everybody in the futures market wants to go long, then every couple of hours the longs have to pay the shorts money, that’s the premium. This means that if you go short in the futures market you’re getting paid that premium every few hours. You then cover that bet by buying in the spot market. This makes your position risk neutral. You don’t have any risk because you already have the Bitcoin in the spot market that you can use to cover your short position in the future market when needed. So you just sit there earning the premium without any risk. 
 so, rentseeking 
 Collecting pennies in front of a rocket ship. 😂 
 or maybe even, in front of the tank-tracks of a mobile city

they should just get on board, retards