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Bitcoin Perps' Algorithmic '0.01%' Scythe: How The Funding-Rate Mechanism Explains Your "Mystery" Liquidations

Bitcoin Perps' Algorithmic '0.01%' Scythe: How The Funding-Rate Mechanism Explains Your "Mystery" Liquidations Authored by danny (@agintender) via WuBlockchain's Aki Chen, Why is derivatives trading the exchange’s money printer? Why do some venues dare to take the other side of their customers’ trades? By unpacking the funding-rate mechanics of Bitcoin perpetual futures (perps) and the surrounding market dynamics, we show how traders are led—step by step—into a fatal trap meticulously engineered by the exchange. The so-called “0.01% equilibrium” in perps - akin, in spirit, to the 0.618 Fibonacci motif - operates as a...
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