The Cboe’s website crashed within minutes of the CBOE open on Sunday – which also marked the launch of the first bitcoin futures to trade on a major exchange - while the price of a single bitcoin spiked 10% in five minutes as the new contract (bearing the ticker XBT) fluctuated wildly. While the CBOE struggles to get the Bitcoin futures contract open, Bitcoin just jumped about $1200 higher pic.twitter.com/xaVeJ1cQyk — TF Metals Report (@TFMetals) https://twitter.com/TFMetals/status/939994618233532417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Bitcoin surged immediately after the 6 p.m. open, climbing about $1,200 on GDAX before giving back some of those gains.