Comment by tek-cyb-org

Ok so this is the first time I'm hearing about arbitrage, so I did some googling to find out what it is. Here is what I am unsure of, Bitcoin is Bitcoin, it's an asset that you buy from an exchange (or mine) where as futures contracts are just contracts that don't equate to bitcoin and are not redeemable in bitcoin. This makes arbitrage not possible. That is my understanding.