BitMEX CTO Samuel Reed Stakes $5 Million on Upcoming Court Date
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BitMEX CTO Samuel Reed Stakes $5 Million on Upcoming Court Date

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BitMEX’s CTO, Samuel Reed, was arrested aftermost Thursday and presented in a federal cloister in Massachusetts. 

He abounding a cloister audition apropos his indictment for actionable the Bank Secrecy Act and declining to apparatus acceptable AML controls for U.S barter at BitMEX.

BitMEX CTO Spends $500,000 on Court Date

Samuel Reed’s apart actualization bond, account $5 actor anchored by $500k in cash, was accustomed two canicule later, on Oct. 3, based on abstracts afresh retrieved by The Block.

Half a actor dollars will act as aegis for his appropriate actualization in court. This money is accountable to forfeitures in the accident of a no-show.

Following the bent allegations, the controlling aggregation at BitMEX stepped down from their positions in the company. Their accepted abode are unknown, and none of them accept appear themselves to the police. 

Trade aggregate and accessible absorption on the BitMEX barter accept fallen drastically afterward the allegation news, and now, one anniversary later, things do not attending abundant better. 

The BitMEX ball acquired bitcoin’s amount to plummet, briefly blame the amount from $10,900 to $10,400. However, the amount has absolutely recovered back and has burst through a key barrier at $11,000.