Difficulty based derivatives and insurance What would the basis of difficulty derivatives and insurance be? Like how could we structure someone such that if the difficulty goes above a certain amount there's a payout to protect miners, &amp; stabilize their ventures?
Unlike a commodity which can limit speculation with a delivery requirement, speculation on the difficulty really is more suited for something like a predictions market like https://www.fairlay.com/event/category/bitcoin/difficulty/.

MPOe at one time had an options contract on future hashing but that is no longer offered.