(Dec 11): Bitcoin futures jumped more than 20% in their eagerly anticipated U.S. debut, which backers hope will encourage wider use and legitimacy for the world’s largest cryptocurrency even as critics warn of the risk of a bubble and price collapse.

The launch on Sunday night may have caused an early outage of the Chicago-based CBOE Global Markets’ website. The exchange said that due to heavy traffic on the CBOE Global Markets website, the site “may be temporarily unavailable.”

The one-month bitcoin contract opened trade at 6 pm (6.00 p.m. ET) at US$15,460 ($20,890), dipped briefly and then rose to a high of US$18,700.

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