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Deribit Insights is the company blog at insights.deribit.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Deribit Insights for market-research writeups, such as a comprehensive account of a reported Bitcoin double-spend and a perspective on why crypto tokens are needed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn about crypto trading, explore educational resources and market analysis, and stay up to date with Deribit exchange news, product updates, and announcements.
What Hacker News says?
Yes, don't get hung up on a cap on coins. That's optional. You could issue those tokens in a centralized way, but with Ethereum, a 1000 such tokens can interact. The question is rather, if you wanted to do a cyber chuck e cheese, why wouldn't you do it on a (performant) blockchain? If the question is why do we need all those tokens for, and this is a good perspective on it: https://insights.deribit.com/market-resear…
Comment linking /market-research/why-i-have-changed-my-mind-on-tokens/
on “It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency”Submitted Leverage 101 – A Short Primer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTo expand on this a little for anyone interested, the problem with classical market-making is that you only make money as long as the trades are crossing back and forth around a stationary price. If the market moves suddenly, you end up losing money. In your example, if a huge sell comes in at 10, and the market then moves down to 8 bid, 9 offered, the market maker has a position they bought at 10, but can only sell…
Comment linking /market-research/toxic-flow-its-sources-and-counter-strategies/
on “Shorting and Indian capital markets”Submitted How DeFi reinvented the Fair Launch – or did it? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGreat and very comprehensive writeup of what happened at https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/was-there-a-bit...
Comment linking /market-research/was-there-a-bitcoin-double-spend-on-jan-20-2021/
on “Bitcoin double-spend detected ($21)”Submitted The Merge: From Proof of Work to Proof of Stake as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat and very comprehensive writeup of what happened at https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/was-there-a-bit...
Comment linking /market-research/was-there-a-bitcoin-double-spend-on-jan-20-2021/
on “Report suggests a critical flaw in Bitcoin called 'double spend'”