Following in the footsteps of CBOE, the CME Group launched their own highly anticipated Bitcoin futures on Sunday evening. Come Monday morning, cryptocurrency’s overal market cap reached another milestone at a $600bln valuation, making this jump from its $500bln worth in just five days. Wall Street’s Newest Toy Adding to Bitcoin’s bullish December run, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s futures opened with a price of $20,000 for its January 2018 contracts. The successful opening comes just a week after CBOE began trading its own Bitcoin futures. Both of the United States-based exchanges were cleared for trading by the Commodity FuturesPowered by WPeMatico