Seem like more than gossip. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/cboe-will-not-relist-bitcoin-futures-contracts-march/
OMG, what is with this statement?!? “They are both cash settled, meaning that two players trade against each other based on the price, and the loser forks over USD to the winner, so bitcoin is never moved by this market,” said Greenspan Well, no shit Sherlock Greenspan? It's a bloody futures contract? It is a contract to buy or sell, not an obligation to move the actual product? Ug.
Well, the idea is that the futures follow the underlying market. If there is no physical settlement, that linkage can be rather tenuous.
The fad is fading away: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/cbo...ures-as-interest-in-crypto-trading-cools.html
Bitcoin Is in the Dumps, Spreading Gloom Over Crypto World https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoi...ver-crypto-world-11552927208?mod=hp_lead_pos9