Shorting relies on a fairly complicated <i>and trustworthy</i> financial system. It isn&#x27;t some easy thing, it&#x27;s quite a complicated thing to set up to work well enough to serve as a financial product.<p>This does not actually exist for Bitcoin. Shorting requires trusting an exchange, and statistically trusting a Bitcoin exchange is historically a <i>terrible</i> idea.<p>So no, you can&#x27;t just short Bitcoin and expect to make money.