San Francisco News Desk

It's a big day for Bitcoin!Not only is this it's 9th birthday - it also set a new all time high record, briefly going over $6400 and hovering around $6350 at the time of this article's publishing.The reason behind the rise in price is the announcement that CME Group said it would launch bitcoin futures before the end of 2017.CME is an American financial market company operating the world's largest options and futures exchange, and signals yet another move from Wall Street into the cryptocurrency space.The idea of futures may be new to some in the crypto scene, NerdWallet explains it like this:Now, the asset will be Bitcoin.Bitcoin also celebrated it's 9th birthday today, which is worth giving some deeper thought. Often cryptocurrency is talked about as if it's some untested, brand new technology. It's not.Just months younger than the first iPhone, and one year away from being a decade old, perhaps it's time for people to accept that it's here to stay. I can't think of any other piece of 9 year old tech i'd still call "new".Today's news seems to be a sign of exactly that, as the mainstream moving into the crypto market continues.-------