Beating Goldman Sachs and Nasdaq to the Punch

On May 3, CCN reported that Goldman Sachs is entering the bitcoin market by launching a futures market targeted at investors in the traditional finance sector and stock market. At the time, Goldman Sachs executive Rana Yared stated that despite the personal skepticisms of the bank's executives, Goldman Sachs decided to operate a bitcoin trading desk to facilitate growing demand from its clients and investors.

On May 8, less than a week after the plans of Goldman Sachs to operate a bitcoin futures market were revealed to the public, NYTimes reported that several emails and documents reviewed by the NYTimes team showed the parent company of NYSE has been developing an online bitcoin trading platform.