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Defi and Bitcoin Mining: Developer Creates Noncustodial Hashrate Derivatives Concept

There’s a new concept called Powswap that lets people speculate on hashrate in order to hedge against price volatility. Powswap was developed by the software engineer Jeremy Rubin who believes hashrate derivatives products allow people to leverage new trading strategies.

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Powswap Where Miners and Holders Can Speculate On Hashrate

Software developer Jeremy Rubin recently announced the launch of a new project he developed called Powswap. It lets people speculate on hashrate to offer “mining derivatives with no trust required.” Essentially, in Rubin’s words, Powswap is a “smart contract/platform for trading Bitcoin hashrate derivatives” with “No middlemen. No oracles. No escrows. Nothing but Bitcoin.”

Developer Proposes Decentralized Bitcoin Hashrate Derivatives

The day Rubin announced the project he explained that it works on Bitcoin Core on mainnet and that no soft forks are required. He also noted that the basic protocol doesn’t require the participation of any other parties and claimed that Powswap is “real [decentralized finance] defi.” Rubin added:

Hashrate derivatives let you trade new strategies: Miners can buy a hedge if they think the difficulty will go up putting them out of business. Miners can hedge if they think their mining operation might ‘blow up’ dropping hash rate and miners can level up new ops. Hodlers can buy insurance against hashrate drops. Hodlers can sell against a large hashrate change in order to generate passive interest and traders can do their thing in between the two to generate profits off of inefficiencies.

Developer Proposes Decentralized Bitcoin Hashrate Derivatives

Powswap has a website that explains the concept in greater detail. According to the site, the project is a noncustodial, trust-free hashrate derivatives platform. Powswap could help miners mitigate against unforeseen changes in

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