On Sunday December 10, 2017 Chicago-based Cboe launched bitcoin futures contracts – becoming the first regulated U.S. exchange to do so. The exchange stole a march on city-rival CME, which will list its own bitcoin futures product on December 18. New York’s Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock market, is also planning to list bitcoin futures contracts before mid-2018. The Tokyo Financial Exchange, which counts the likes of JPMorgan Chase among its trading participants, is