On the other side of the planet, in Japan, where cryptocurrency is equated to traditional currency, a senior official at the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) said that after internal discussions the financial regulator will not allow trading in futures for cryptocurrencies, at least not at the moment. The agency will carefully resolve investment schemes with a higher risk in the Japanese markets after the MtGox incident.

By the way, the first batch of contracts for futures for bitcoin CME will expire on January 26. The previous bitcoin futures contract closed on January 17 at $ 10,900. About a week prior there were less than 2,000 short contracts purchased at CBOE for bitcoin futures. Since the expiration of the first batch of futures, bitcoin has fallen significantly.