BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Goes Mum amid CFTC Probe Rumor
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BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes Goes Mum amid CFTC Probe Rumor

THELOGICALINDIAN - Three canicule afterwards Bloomberg appear a address about BitMEX adverse a authoritative analysis the crypto derivatives barter is still after an explanation

A quick attending at the Seychelles firm’s official amusing media handles, including an contrarily alive Twitter folio of architect & CEO Arthur Hayes, shows no acknowledgment about the accepted scandal. As BitMEX goes mum on the matter, the barter is witnessing a added massive address of bitcoins from its wallet reserves. Twitterati Token Analyst on Saturday acclaimed that BitMEX candy $85 actor account of crypto withdrawals on a 24-hour timeframe. At the aforementioned time, the barter candy deposits of alone $12 million.

The probe, launched by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), focuses on whether BitMEX, a non-US entity, offered casework to the American citizens. In its acknowledgment to Bloomberg, BitMEX said it “does not animadversion on any media letters about inquiries or investigations by government agencies or regulators.”

Nouriel Roubini Attacks BitMEX – Again

BitMEX and its founding partners’ blackout prompted an access in exact attacks from their critics. Noted economist Nouriel Roubini, who debated Hayes during the latest Asia Blockchain Summit in Taiwan, weaponized the Bloomberg address to reiterate his objection. He accurate the analysis led by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission adjoin BitMEX as he tagged Hayes’ official Twitter handle in a majority of his tweets.

“Hayes indeed got [totally] rekt at the conference,” Roubini said in a tweet. “Then [he] approved to be arrogant till I destroyed him in accessible and apparent BitMEX scams in my ProSyn article. Then he was hit with the CFTC investigation. So for a week, he has been [quietly] ambuscade in his gilded Seychelles cave.”

Criticism additionally came from central the cryptocurrency community. Scott Melker, a crypto trader, associated with TexasWest Capital, accurate Roubini on his comments about BitMEX. He aggregate his cheep appear on April 26, advertence that what Roubini said in the contempo canicule is article he is admonishing the association about for a continued time. Excerpts:

“The actuality of Bitmex boggles my mind. The belvedere can finer abduct your money whenever they appetite (failed stop loss, arrangement overload), accusation in on the poor tech and acknowledgment nothing. It’s the better and best absorbing betray I’ve seen. And you all acquire this as normal.”

BitMEX Defense from Past

Hayes, in his agitation with Roubini, said he does not accept the US should act as a trendsetter back it comes to acclimation banking organizations. The statement, in turn, followed BitMEX’s accommodation to abdicate the North American bazaar afterwards the crackdown by the Canadian authoritative anatomy Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).

An alien agent said in January that BitMEX has refrained from alms casework to US citizens back 2024. He added that users, nevertheless, attack to barter on their barter application basic clandestine arrangement services.

“BitMEX has consistently retained the appropriate to abutting any accounts and to cash any accessible positions area any BitMEX trading actor has accustomed apocryphal representations as to their area or abode of residence,” the agent clarified.