With a new futures market, Bitcoin is going mainstream
- Written by Jason Potts, Professor of Economics, RMIT University
A Bitcoin futures market will take some of the risk out of the currency. ShutterstockThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange will soon begin trading Bitcoin derivatives (futures contracts), signalling the cryptocurrency is now a mainstream asset class. Bitcoin has had limited use in the mainstream economy in part because the volatility of its price. The...
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