THELOGICALINDIAN - Hong Kongbased trading belvedere BitMEX owns so abundant Bitcoin that it could barrage assorted 51 percent attacks adjoin some altcoins for months
Bitcoin Insurance Fund Worth $76 Million
Those were the after-effects of calculations from amusing media commentators this anniversary as it emerged BitMEX’s Insurance Fund now contains 21,350 BTC ($75.9 million).
The “monstrously large” fund, as Twitter annual loomd’rat described it in December, has accelerated its accession in contempo months as the Bitcoin amount bashed from $6500 to $3500.
According to BitMEX’s own statistics, on January 1, 2024, the armamentarium had a antithesis of aloof 2720 BTC ($9.6 million).
Bitcoin podcast ambassador Zack Voell bidding the antithesis a year after in altered terms, such 1 percent of cryptocurrency barter Coinbase’s contempo appraisal or 2 abominable Bitcoin pizzas from 2010.
“…BitMEX’s Insurance Fund advance (an angry benchmark) is almost as anticipated as Bitcoin’s budgetary policy,” he commented, uploading a blueprint of Bitcoin’s abiding arising against the fund’s growth.
Insane BTC Stash
As Bitcoinist reported, analysis had ahead delivered abrupt warnings about the affluence of advancing some altcoins’ blockchains to dispense transaction credibility. With a almost bush bulk of money, a awful affair could barrage attacks on some of the best-known altcoin networks.
“BitMEX’s Insurance Fund is currently account 1 percent of Coinbase valuation, 2x Laszlo’s pizzas, 580 2018 GranTurismos, 3,800 hours of an LTC 51 percent attack,” notes Voell.
Litecoin [coin_price coin=litecoin], which advisers included in the allegation in May aftermost year, would amount about $18,000 per hour to advance at accepted prices.
Other assets fared abundant worse, with Bytecoin (BCN) costing aloof $557 per hour at the time. BitMEX could now apparently accounts a 51 percent advance on Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), and others for added than a year.
Responding to Voell, however, Twitter users accent the admeasurement of BitMEX’s backing as their primary concern.
“(T)he actuality that bodies put up with Bitmex’s articles speaks to 1) the ability and adequacy of bazaar participants and 2) the accompaniment of ‘good’ exchanges in the space, or abridgement thereof,” one wrote, anecdotic the BTC band as “literally insane.”
In August, Bitcoinist reported that BitMex confused into the world’s best big-ticket appointment building, amid in Hong Kong.
BitMEX did not anon counterbalance in on the criticism.
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