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The ongoing regulatory enforcement actions are threatening to drive US crypto businesses offshore. The implications of such a shift for the country’s economy are significant, something that has translated into declining crypto prices, making investors even more jittery. While the market’s concerns regarding the potential removal of the US retail investor from the crypto capital markets are palpable, Arthur Hayes believes the fear is misplaced. Elimination of US Retail...

Bitcoin’s strong bounce back despite the SEC lawsuits has made analysts optimist about the beginning of the next bull run. After facing strong selling pressure earlier this week, the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has given a strong bounceback today moving closer to $27,000. As of press time, BTC is trading 3.2% up at a price of $26,603 and a market cap of $515 billion. The recent bounce back has created optimism among Bitcoin enthusiasts with analysts turning bullish on the...

Will the Federal Reserve stop raising interest rates next month? For Bitcoin investors, the answer may not actually matter.  According to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, Bitcoin’s price and inflation will rise in tandem precisely because of hawkish central bank policy – contrary to what modern monetary theory would suggest.  How Rising Rates Will Increase Inflation In a Thursday blog post titled “Patience is Beautiful,” Hayes outlined why the economy’s ever-expanding...

Su Zhu, the co-founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), has obtained a restraining order from a Singaporean court against Arthur Hayes, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX. According to a court document seen by CoinDesk, the restraining order prohibits Hayes from using any insulting or abusive communication that would cause Zhu alarm, harassment, or distress. Hayes Restrained From Abusing Zhu In the past few months,...

Could the US dollar lose its status as the global reserve currency? BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes doesn’t rule out the possibility and believes it’s a question worth considering for those looking to preserve their wealth.  The former exchange CEO published an essay on Thursday exploring the economics and role of the dollar worldwide, and how its shrinking role could affect global crypto adoption.  US Dollar Dominance and Decline In the essay titled “Exit Liquidity,” Hayes...

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes examines de-dollarization and its fiscal and political implications in an article titled ‘Exit Liquidity.’   Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes recently aired his views on exit liquidity vis-à-vis the US dollar’s reserve currency status. In a Medium blog post, the American entrepreneur wrote exhaustively on whether the US dollar can be replaced as the global reserve currency. Additionally, Hayes debated whether China or any other powerful nation would be willing...

Arthur Hayes – co-founder of BitMEX – believes the altcoin season (a time frame during which the alternative coins outperform Bitcoin and reduce its dominance in the crypto market) is already here. Assets like Ether (ETH), Arbitrum (ARB), and Dogecoin (DOGE) have marked substantial gains in the past 24 hours, whereas BTC has been relatively stable at a range of $30-31K. Enter the Alt Season In one of his most recent tweets, Hayes presented a price chart of Ether (ETH),...

The launch of the exchange project, OPNX, earlier this week managed to attract significant backlash from the community. A new development has emerged regarding the funds received for the development of OPNX, which is backed by the founders of the bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes cited an anonymous source and claimed that the founders of the controversial project, Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, received a “lot of money” from the sovereign wealth...

Arthur Hayes says Maelstrom is “patient” and is currently only seeking to invest in projects that can prove their worth. Erstwhile BitMex CEO Arthur Hayes plans to beat returns offered by Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). Together with former BitMex head of corporate development Akshat Vaidya, Arthur Hayes founded Maelstrom Capital, a fund they plan would considerably outperform the top two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap. The Maelstrom website describes the company as Arthur Hayes’...

BitMEX co-founder and crypto-essayist Arthur Hayes published a lengthy blog post on Thursday breaking down the Federal Reserve’s new program to protect the banking system – and what it means for Bitcoin.  The initiative titled the “Bank Term Funding Program” is regarded by Hayes as a “repackaged” form of Yield Curve Control (YCC) that will trigger another bull market for Bitcoin.  QE Infinity Hayes began by reviewing the macroeconomic backdrop since 2020, from the period of...