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Could you provide the names of Shi'a Maraje' who allow trading in cryptocurrency derivatives or futures?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

List of Shia great scholars who allow cryptocurrency dealings include Ayatullah Sayyed Musa Shubayri Zanjani in Qum, and Ayatullah Shaikh Baqir Ayrawani in Najaf Ashraf and Ayatullah Shaikh Hasan Jawahiri in Najaf Ashraf. Late Ayatullah Sayyed Sa'eed Al-Hakeem in Najaf Ashraf allowed also dealing with crypto currencies.

Wassalam.
Can you provide the names of any Marjas who permit futures trading? I am currently following Ayatollah Sistani, but I believe he has not addressed cryptocurrency or futures trading in his guidance.
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Ayatullah Sayed Musa Zinjani of Qum allows dealing with cryptocurrencies provided  it does not break the law of the land and does not harm anyone.

Ayatullah Shaikh Bakir Airawani of Najaf and Ayatullah Shaikh Hasan Jawahiri of Najaf say that dealing with cryptocurrencies is permissible.

Wassalam.
What should you do when you are uncertain about a Marja's Fatwa and have no knowledge or source for their reasoning? Is blind following in such cases justified?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The Marja' of Taqleed is the most or one of the most knowledgeable jurisprudence's experts,who has done full research and authentic evidence on his verdict. Unexperts can not be certain or uncertain about a Fatwa because they have no experience on juridrudence. Highest medical scientist does need his patients to be certain or uncertain when he has his scientific evidence on what he should do with a certain medical condition. Following the highest expert does not mean blind following but an enlightened following because your reason tells you to follow the most knowledgeable in every subject.

'Wassalam.
Are the son-in-laws of our Marjas, Ayatullah Khamenei and Agha Sistani, of Sayyed or Non-Sayyed background?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

There is no shar'i requirement for a Seyid/Seyidah to marry a Seyidah/Seyid. This is a personal preference and a cultural practice. It is also something that has taken a lot of negative direction to it as well, because some good suitors are being rejected because they are "non-seyids". 

Many of our esteemed Maraji' and great scholars who were Seyids have married their daughters off to non-Seyids, and that itself is enough for us to break this wrong practice that some families insist on observing.

And Allah knows best