Last month the price of Bitcoin reacted strongly to the news that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) were planning to launch Bitcoin futures - which eventually led to a massive bull run. Both mainstream exchanges successfully launched their new offerings and in both instances, the price of Bitcoin reacted favourably, although the CME launch a week after CBOE had far less of an effect on the price of Bitcoin.
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is sitting at $14,217, representing a gain of 13.1% in the last 24 hours. More than $1.6B worth of BTC were exchanged in the BTC/USD market representing a 39% share of daily volume, followed by the BTC/JPY pair that represents a 31% share.
Bitcoin is up 13.12% at $14,217.370 with a volume of Ƀ124.3k - $1668.5M on the USD pairs.
Ether is up 7.76% against Bitcoin at Ƀ0.0521 per Ether and up 20.45% against the dollar to $740.12 with average volume Ƀ43.5k on the ETH/BTC pair.
Bitcoin Cash is down 0.74% to Ƀ0.2013 with volumes of Ƀ33.1k and up 12.09% against the dollar at $2842.77.
Ripple is up 2.01% to Ƀ0.0000709 with volumes of Ƀ17.6k and up 17.46% against the dollar at $0.999.
Zcash is up 6.99% for the day to Ƀ0.03886 per ZEC and up 22.81% against the dollar to $544.09 with an average volume of Ƀ4.4k for the 24 hour period.
Litecoin is up 10.59% against the dollar for the day at $280.91 and up 0.62% to Ƀ0.01952 on volumes of Ƀ19.9k.
Dash is up 1.61% at Ƀ0.08219 with Ƀ8.2k volume and up 17.33% against the dollar at $1153.38.
Iota is up 0.92% to Ƀ0.0002639 on Ƀ5.5k volume.
Ether Classic is up 2.69% to Ƀ0.002058 with volumes of Ƀ5.2k and up 18.44% against the dollar at $28.78.
Monero is up 18.88% against the dollar at $343.82 and up 2.67% against Bitcoin at Ƀ0.02458 on volumes of Ƀ4.7k.
Neo is up 5.86% for the day to Ƀ0.004406 per NEO and up 23.71% against the dollar to $61.82 with an average volume of Ƀ6.2k for the 24 hour period.
Waves is up 1.52% to Ƀ0.0009769 on Ƀ3.5k volume.
Stratis is up 3.17% to Ƀ0.001019 on Ƀ3.8k volume.