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Bitcoin just started trading on the world’s biggest exchange — here's why that matters
Link: http://business.financialpost.com/in...debuts-futures

The world’s biggest exchange just joined the bitcoin revolution.

Bitcoin futures started trading Sunday night at CME Group Inc.’s venue, a week after Chicago rival Cboe Global Markets Inc. introduced similar derivatives on the volatile cryptocurrency. CME is a much bigger player in futures, so many traders expected it to make a bigger splash in the nascent space.

Overstock is turning into a bitcoin tech company
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news...rne/index.html

The company is one of the first retailers to accept bitcoin and will make the coin offering through its exchange, tZero. Its stock has tracked closely to bitcoin's wild rise -- Overstock's stock rose 4-fold between July and December as bitcoin grew more than 7-fold.

eBay considers adding bitcoin as a form of payment
Link: http://www.forexnewsnow.com/forex-an...-form-payment/

Even though the adoption of bitcoin has still not been widespread, it has been rising fast in the past year. Several major retail stores across the world such as Subway now accept bitcoin as a form of payment. Now eBay are also considering doing the same, and given the company’s status as a major ecommerce company, the news could be huge for bitcoin.