This is something that all financial economists know and something that just about everyone else disagrees with them on. Having derivatives in a market helps to stabilise prices in that market: Some say that the recent rise of more advanced bitcoin-related financial services, including hedge funds, futures, and derivatives markets, could help stabilize the future of Bitcoin. This week, a soon-to-launch New York-based “leveraged forex trading platform” for Bitcoin, called Coinsetter, announced that it had received $500,000 in venture capital.