Mining Derivatives: What's Next?
Luxor's Matt Williams on a new era for miners and traditional finance integration
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Matt Williams of Luxor discusses the launch of their hashrate futures product, bridging traditional finance and mining. They explore the need for miners to hedge volatility, the process of creating mining derivatives, and future possibilities like options contracts and transaction fee hedging.
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Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

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