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campaigns to bring back their workers the most abroad joining the global financial crisis. more on that in a moment first and breaking news in a story coming in from the united states injuries have been reported at new york's port authority transit station following a reported explosion media say a suspect is in custody the n.y.p.d. says it's evacuated a number of subway lines the incident appears to have occurred at the intersection of forty second street and eighth avenue not far from times square video is coming in of what appears to be a major evacuation of the area by police and other first responders we'll have more on the. story as soon as details emerge. first of all a major exchange is now trading bitcoin futures the virtual money has value surging to over eighteen thousand dollars on the chicago board of exchange so reckon the derivatives will help stabilize the extreme price volatility of the past weeks and

ensure bitcoins placed in the financial mainstream. it's a move some say could propel bitcoin from the fringes to the forefront of finance. the futures markets allies traders to speculate on the cryptic currencies priced at a later date something which could increased ability but also push the price down from the dizzying heights of clare it's been i think argue a correction and i suspect the correction will happen when the futures markets come online and so my suggestion is to kind of wait and see what happens i think that if you're investing though for the next two years or three years then the difference between the price now and the price in a week's time may be irrelevant some say that bitcoin might not even be around to the next two to three years though it's notoriously volatile with warnings that it may self-destruct and it's not backed but some believe the impact of block change technology will be lasting whatever you might think about the current reality is

that the technology behind it which is the blog is here to stay if i can make a kind of a comparison is more like the dot com bubble that we had early two thousand. while everybody was getting reach just having you know a dot com on the web side but even after the bubble burst the internet is still there we have facebook google so the technology behind it is here to stay already opinion is divided over whether the trading of futures will prove the making or the downfall of the digital darling. and let's bring in linda hong now asia correspondent in singapore and daniel co-produce standing by in frankfurt linda starting with you who's actually investing how much are they investing and how much of a burning could they be in for well actually if you think about it all they're actually notable investor is kim draper who is actually a venture capitalist he has actually going to be

a billionaire from his investments in that coin trading and also we know that we don't know actually that some of the other small investors and if he gives rise to the fact that there might actually be some money laundering or activities for criminals to kick to to do for two bit quite that they make some money so there's a very number of invest this for it going to go there differently is a dark side to the digital currency daniel how do you see what a trade is they're saying about the performance over the next week switch which dollar mark is the next goal while the investors are telling me that they pretty much don't see any kind of limit we just remember weeks ago the bitcoin was at a level about eleven thousand dollars now we are seeing this launch happening at started with fifteen thousand dollars just within twelve hours that went up to eighteen thousand six hundred dollars the next mark investors though are looking at

the level of out of fifty thousand dollars that they think it's really realistic to reach in the next coming months maybe even weeks and when a big future is going to be traded in frankfurt do you reckon. yeah very interesting question the start of the sea o.b.e. is kind of a milestone next week another major stock market c m e is going to join mastic even considering this as well when you talk to traders here and frank for there a little bit more conservative really a warning that bitcoin just within one day can go up forty percent but then you know can drop again so i don't really see this happening in the near future here in frankfurt briefly linda is this going to be a short lived obsession or is it the future while we seem think why it's been around since twenty eight and has survived a crash in twenty thirteen and is

a key that's actually a fixed number of quite going on right now twenty one million so we have seen what with his history speaks for itself.