
BitMEX has been hit with an additional financial penalty following its 2022 guilty plea for violating the US Bank Secrecy Act.
A federal judge has sentenced HDR Global Trading Limited, also known as the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, to two years of unsupervised probation and a $100 million fine.
In a Jan. 15 hearing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge John Koeltl passed down the sentence against BitMEX, roughly six months after the crypto exchange pleaded guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act by operating without “any meaningful” Anti-Money Laundering program. The crypto firm called the charges “old news” in July 2024, suggesting at the time it expected no additional fines.
In a statement to its users after the judgment, BitMEX said:
A man who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin (BTC) has been declared in contempt of court in the UK. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has been handed a one-year sentence, suspended for two years, for filing a $1.2 trillion lawsuit against the payments firm Block. The judge says Wright violated a previous court […]
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Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy’s system of issuing bonds to buy Bitcoin (BTC) comes with substantial risk, according to BitMEX Research. In a new report, BitMEX comments on the business intelligence firm’s massive corporate holding of Bitcoin, which it has largely accumulated by issuing debt. While a forced liquidation is “highly unlikely,” BitMEX notes that Bitcoin […]
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BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes is naming an altcoin he thinks will outperform the rest ahead of the upcoming US presidential election. In a new interview on the Unchained YouTube channel, the crypto veteran says he’s interested in trading Ethereum (ETH) rival and smart contract platform Solana (SOL) because he believes it will jump in price […]
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BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes says it doesn’t matter to the crypto industry who wins the upcoming presidential election. Speaking at the Token 2049 event in Singapore, the Maelstrom CIO says that he doesn’t believe Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is being genuine when espousing pro-crypto stances. “I don’t understand why crypto bros and gals are […]
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