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> The scale of today’s derivatives market is almost too vast to comprehend. It’s measured in trillions of dollars. Traders, aided by the most sophisticated software money can buy, place bets — billions per second — on the future prices of every manner of stuff.

My grandpa can’t comprehend how bitcoin has “created value out of nothing” but really the finiancial world has been doing it for ages.

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