THELOGICALINDIAN - Blockstream has appear the success of a arguable Bitcoin advanced arrangement transaction with Crypto Garage The Bitcoin basement developer says the account marks a watershed moment in the accomplishment of decentralized trading and adjustment basement for BTC derivatives
Details of the Transaction
In a blog post appear by Blockstream on Friday (April 19, 2019), the aggregation said it auspiciously agitated out a peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin advanced arrangement with Crypto Garage.
Forward affairs (forwards) are clandestine agreements amid two entities – client and seller, that allows the acquirement and auction of an asset based on an agreed-upon approaching set price. Unlike futures contracts, assiduously do not crave a third-party intermediary.
Both parties began the barter on Tuesday (April 9, 2024) with anniversary actor declaring accessory of 0.16 BTC each. Based on the agreement of the contract, which assured adjustment aural the hour afterwards midnight on April 16, both parties assured the arrangement at a amount of $5,032.
The analysis BTC advanced arrangement acclimated the amount displayed on the ICE Cryptocurrency Data Feed. Blockstream says it becoming about $230 on its bet to go abbreviate on BTC.
P2P Bitcoin Derivatives Trading
For Blockstream the success of this transaction indicates the achievability of creating a belvedere for ‘trustless’ BTC derivates trading. Presently, Bitcoin futures trading occurs on centralized platforms like BitMEX and the CME.
Blockstream argues that the partial-collateralization of futures affairs opens is a acrid brand that opens up the possibility of huge losses.
Back in 2018, Bitcoinist appear on OKEx accepting to accomplish a $9 actor clawback to awning losses from an over-leveraged $416 actor BTC futures bet that went wrong.
Instead, Blockstream argues that the arguable attributes of Bitcoin assiduously will annihilate any counterparty risks. All anniversary affair has to do is column their best accumulation and accident acknowledgment with the trusted amount answer accomplishing the rest.
However, some online commentators accept criticized the ‘trustless’ characterization put on the artefact by Blockstream. This is because bitcoin assiduously are absolutely based on the use of a “trusted amount feed.”
Possible Future Liquid Bitcoin Implementation
According to the blog post, the BTC assiduously arrangement adjustment took abode on the Bitcoin blockchain. The aggregation says there are affairs to booty the adjustment action off-chain, via its Liquid Network.
Both Blockstream and Crypto Garage already accept a above-mentioned affiliation which saw the barrage of the SETTLENET suite.
Will P2P Bitcoin assiduously decidedly abate counterparty risks associated with BTC derivates trading? Let us apperceive your thoughts in the comments below.
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