BitMEX has reached its most dangerous moment

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2020-10-09 20:56 (UTC+8)

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The savagely growing BitMEX may have to re-examine its present and future.

Editor's Note: This article comes fromDeepChain (ID: deepchain-eva), Author: Deep Chain Liuliu, reproduced by Odaily with authorization.

Editor's Note: This article comes from

DeepChain (ID: deepchain-eva)

, Author: Deep Chain Liuliu, reproduced by Odaily with authorization.

However, in 2020, BitMEX, a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Hong Kong, has encountered strong judicial supervision from the United States.

On October 8, after the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued BitMEX executives, BitMEX-related executives chose to resign.

Just today, BitMEX CTO Samuel Reed, who was previously accused and arrested by the US Department of Justice, was finally released on bail with a $5 million bond.

We have no way of knowing to what extent the regulation against BitMEX will go, or it is just a storm, and you can pay for it, or this important exchange in the history of cryptocurrency is about to usher in its most dangerous moment?

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In the early hours of October 2, Beijing time, a piece of news broke out in the cryptocurrency industry: the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have charged four executives of the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX and its owners and operators. The trader filed a criminal lawsuit, accusing BitMEX of being an unregistered trading platform, and that its AML (anti-money laundering) and KYC violated CFTC rules.

In addition, in the CFTC's 40-page lawsuit against BitMEX, a number of related companies and individuals, including HDR Global Trading Limited, the parent company of BitMEX, have been brought to court.

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