Abstract
The price of Bitcoin reached its peak a mere few days after the introduction of Bitcoin futures and suffered an 80% loss in the following year. In this paper, we find a significant and negative relationship between the introduction of Bitcoin futures and Bitcoin returns, and an insignificant or positive relationship for other 7 major non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies. Within the first 45 days after the futures launch, Bitcoin suffered a -26.50% loss, while other cryptocurrencies could still provide positive returns. We presume that the launch of Bitcoin futures was to an extent responsible for the crash of Bitcoin.
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