Story - First Bitcoin Futures Launched http://www.cboe.com/delayedquote/symbol-look-up?company=BITCOIN%20FUTURES So when you search the CBOE for Bitcoin Futures you get these three results back. If I’m not mistaken these are futures contracts that are deliverable January 2018, February 2018 and March 2018. The January 2018 contract is the only one with data right now because they are 30 day futures. http://www.cboe.com/delayedquote/detailed-quotes?ticker=BTC%2fF8 The symbol is BTC/F8 if you want to search for it on the CBOE website. At time of recording the price is $15,300 and the contract expires on the 26th of January 2018. So if you consider that futures were originally designed to aid manufacturers and farmers so they could lock in prices for their goods, you can imagine how futures could help boost cryptocurrency adoption by allowing retailers to basically buy insurance against the price of Bitcoin falling. Say Dell receives $1,000 worth of Bitcoin today as payment for a laptop and then a week goes by and Bitcoin drops 20% to $800, Dell’s in trouble. If they bought a Bitcoin Futures contract for a small fee, they reserve the right to sell that Bitcoin for $1,000 on the 26th of January 2018. If the price of Bitcoin goes up in the meantime and it ends up being worth $1,200 then they can just choose not to exercise the contract, let it expire and then sell the Bitcoin on the open market for $1,200. That’s how it’s supposed to work but because these are cash settled, Dell would just receive the $200 extra in cash. What happened to the Bitcoin and altcoin prices today? https://www.coinigy.com/main/markets/BITF/BTC/USD Story - ViaBTC To Launch BCH Exchange https://news.bitcoin.com/viabtc-announce-new-cryptocurrency-exchange-with-bitcoin-cash-as-base-currency/ It’s no surprise this story comes from Bitcoin.com who are die hard supporters of Bitcoin Cash. It’s also no surprise that it’s ViaBTC who are doing this because they were trading Bitcoin Cash futures I believe and putting some hash power behind other Bitcoin alternatives such as Segwit2x when it was around. The story is that ViaBTC are going to create a new cryptocurrency exchange with Bitcoin Cash as the base currency instead of Bitcoin. That means BCH will be the main currency everything else is traded against in the same way that BTC is on most existing exchanges. http://www.coinex.com/btc.html They are going to call it Coinex and here is the website. Most interesting to me is the fact that they are going to base the exchange in the UK. Kind of brave given the recent news about the government wanting to heat up regulation on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to Bitcoin.com they incorporated on the 4th of December, which I was able to verify as true by g ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWyd1Iqi8U

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