Shorting Soaring Bitcoin Is Expensive

Borrowing rates to short the Bitcoin Investment Trust ETF are already 10 percent — and could go higher, according to S3 Partners.

December 13, 2017


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Investors have to pay up to short Bitcoin amid escalating concern that the cryptocurrency is skyrocketing in a phase of mania.

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