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Topic
Board Speculation
Possible reduction of price volatility - futures as a balancing factor
by
NCGreturns
on 22/05/2018, 04:31:58 UTC
 Interesting short doc considering appearance of BTC future market:
https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2018/may/how-futures-trading-changed-bitcoin-prices/

One would argue against as there should be relatively inelastic supply of the coins but altcoins fill this role quite well already.

In connection to supply elasticity see this old thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1207731.0