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With a new futures market, Bitcoin is going mainstream

  • Written by Jason Potts, Professor of Economics, RMIT University
imageA Bitcoin futures market will take some of the risk out of the currency. Shutterstock

The 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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