[colemannugent]

>... New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc. is the only one of the four major U.S. exchange operators without public plans to offer bitcoin derivatives.

That's pretty big. A couple years ago people were very skeptical that the big players would ever start dabbling in Bitcoin.

[wpietri]

In some sense, they're still not. Derivatives don't require much involvement in the underlying commodity. For example, consider weather derivatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative

E.g., the CME's weather futures and options:

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/weather/

It's not like the Merc is really involved in weather. They just let people gamble on the weather.

[anonymous5133]

That is huge. Five years ago the financial establishment was basically saying it was an investment fraud scheme.

[lallysingh]

NYSE also backs coinbase.