Death by Derivatives
&gt; <i>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.</i><p>My grandpa can’t comprehend how bitcoin has “created value out of nothing” but really the finiancial world has been doing it for ages.