The US-American Supervisory authority for financial derivatives, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), initiates investigations against the Bitcoin exchange BitMEX. In the room the suspicion that the exchange had approved the registrations of Americans is. This would be a violation of CFTC regulations.

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Bitcoin exchanges have it in the USA is not easy. Strict regulatory requirements in many cases, that crypto and Blockchain-companies censor from the outset themselves and their platforms for US-Americans do not make available. So BitMEX – it was thought, at least so far.

Because, as the economic news magazine, reported by Bloomberg, the CFTC for some time against the crypto-option exchange. The subject matter of the investigation of the suspected cases, according to which BitMEX has the exclusion of the United States is not consistently enforced. So the US should be able to register Americans over VPN without a problem at the exchange. In other words, The CFTC alleges that the Trading platform inadequate KYC measures.

This is in contrast to statements by Joe Coufal, who is responsible for PR at BitMEX, according to which “BitMEX for 2015, all US customers pro-actively banned” have.

BitMEX, especially in Asia popular

BitMEX is registered in the Seychelles. The platform, however, is almost available anywhere in the world – with the exception of the USA, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Sudan. In particular, in the Asian region, the option stock exchange is enjoying some popularity. On BitMEX Futures Trader Bitcoin profits (and losses) can be provided with a one-hundred-fold lever.

the Last stand BitMEX in the criticism of encouraging insider trading. Bitcoin boss Nouriel Roubini, also known as “Dr. Doom”, accused the stock exchange during a debate with BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, to act against its customers. A Video of said debate remained under lock and key, what took Roubini to the occasion, to fire once again against Hayes and his company,, has now appeared (in edited Form), however.

The Tangle in Taipei with Arthur Hayes and Nouriel Roubini – Round 1

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in August 2018 it was a DDoS attack on the Futures Trading platform. But instead of warnings to the users, was maintenance work on the speech. Many traders were not able to so resolve their positions and the losses recorded.

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