Cryptocurrencies

Investors Increasingly Willing to Spread Bet Against Bitcoin

  • Share of customers going short increasing at CFD firm IG Group
  • Customers more bullish on Ripple, Ethereum than on Bitcoin

Bitcoin: What’s Coming in the Year Ahead

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Bitcoin is losing fans.

Investors using London-based contracts-for-difference firm IG Group Holdings Plc have increasingly taken bets on declines in the cryptocurrency. That’s a change from a year ago when a far greater majority wanted to be long, according to Adam Blemings, head of futures and foreign exchange.