The world's largest futures trading exchange, the CME, has begun offering bitcoin futures as it had previously announced back at the beginning of the month. The launch could boost bitcoin's price.
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The much-anticipated Bitcoin future contracts have gone live this weekend, with prices for the cryptocurrency seeing significant jumps, hitting around $19,090 per coin in February 2018.
Several futures exchanges, including the world's biggest, will launch bitcoin futures contracts in just over two weeks time. On the back of the news, the price of bitcoin has continued to rise.