Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, discusses how the Bitcoin markets have been changing amidst what may be a forthcoming ebbing of derivatives exchanges and a revival of the importance of spot exchanges. In this episode, he covers: what the PayPal news means when there are...
The amount of BTC on crypto exchanges has been dropping since March. Why?
Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia, headed up the team that has prosecuted what some believe is the greatest number of cryptocurrency crimes worldwide — Welcome to Video, Dark Scandals, Helix, North Korea, Hamas/Al Qaeda and ISIS. In this episode, she discusses: how she came to create a Threat...
\+ CFTC Chair Gushes About ETH This week, another big institutional player invested an eye-opening sum in Bitcoin, while BTC's overall bullish trend shows no signs of slowing down. CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert praised Ethereum while dancing around whether ETH or the greater DeFi landscape should be labeled securities or commodities. We also have a roundup of the latest...
This article originally appeared in our Down The Rabbit Hole newsletter. If you want our news and analysis straight to your inbox, make sure you subscribe now! BitMEX has been dominating the cryptocurrency news cycle lately, for reasons that it would rather avoid. On October 1, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the exchange with facilitating...
All of them are facing criminal charges in the United States.
BitMEX, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchange and derivative trading platform received a major blow from CFTC last week. Following which investors rushed to remove more than 50,000 bitcoin tokens from BitMEX. The situation is worsening for the exchange as leading cryptocurrency investigation firm Chainalysis has now labeled the platform as a “high risk” exchange. According to the...
Quick take: Bitmex's Arthur Hayes and Samuel Reed are stepping down from their roles as CEO and CTO respectively The move comes a week after the US CFTC and DoJ charged them with illegally operating a derivatives exchange and violating the Bank Secrecy Act Vivien Khoo, Chief Operating Officer of 100x Group, will become Interim CEO Ben Radclyffe, Commercial Director at Bitmex, will...
Quick take: Veteran Bitcoin Analyst, Willy Woo has explained that Bitcoin capitulation was last year at $3k Bitcoin has been in a bull market ever since The Bull market was masked by the wild swings by Bitmex traders The CFTC pursuing Bitmex might just bring in some much-needed order in the Bitcoin trading environment and possibly an ETF Veteran Bitcoin analyst, Willy Woo,...
Bitcoin's "real" reaction to today's news could be on the horizon.
The bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX is in hot soup. According to a statement by United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the exchange is facing charges for operating illegally in the United States and for violating AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations. CFTC has filed a civil enforcement action against BitMEX owners and operators. The official statement released on October 1 reveals that CFTC will...
And the third-largest exchange hack in crypto history This hectic news week in crypto began with the third-largest hack ever of a crypto exchange. The hacker or hackers who attacked Kucoin made out with $280 million, with around $130 million of that so far frozen in new contracts and hard forks. Then, YFI founder Andre Cronje teased a new project on Twitter, and...
Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block, discusses a controversial blog post by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong about how the company intends to take an apolitical stance, the pushback it received afterward, and the company's offer of generous exit packages for employees who disagree: why CEO Brian Armstrong wrote the blog post stating...
BitMEX assured users it is operating “entirely” as normal, all funds are safe and pending withdrawal requests were processed.
In response to recent charges by CFTC Bitmex has released a blog assuring traders that the funds are safe and Bitmex will continue operating as usual. Bitmex team also responded through their official twitter handle and cleared doubts regarding the withdrawals and continuity of operations. United States CFTC & DOJ Filing Withdrawals Will Be Released The post "All Funds Are Safe", BitMex Responds...
In brief: Bitcoin has managed to stay above $10,000 for 65 days BTC's impressive run is currently threatened by the unfolding saga between the CFTC, US DoJ and Bitmex The CFTC has charged Bitmex and its owners with illegally operating a derivatives exchange The Department of Justice has also charged the owners of Bitmex with violating the Bank Secrecy act Bitmex has vowed...
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