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The court filing argued that Höptner’s termination was “wholly wrongful and without basis.” Former BitMEX Chief Alexander Höptner has sued his former employer for $3.4 million for breach of agreement and wrongful termination. This includes $2.4 million for his second-year bonus and smaller amounts for remaining wages, relocation expenses, and housing. The claim, filed by Höptner’s legal representatives – Kelvin Chia Partnership – with Singapore’s High Court, alleges BitMEX of...

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BitMEX co-founder and renowned crypto essayist, Arthur Hayes, thinks the worst of this year’s Bitcoin bear market has come to pass.  The former CEO believes the three major cohorts of forced Bitcoin sellers – trading firms, miners, and speculators – have already capitulated, marking the bottom of Bitcoin’s market cycle.  How Bitcoin Gets Dumped As Hayes explained in a blog post titled PEDMAS on Friday, centralized lenders (CELs) begin by going bankrupt when they lend to...

China was emerging as the epicenter of the crypto industry. Within a decade, the country witnessed the spawning of giant exchanges like Binance Holdings Ltd. as well as the biggest Bitcoin mining firms. However, Beijing’s move to ban crypto trading and mining last year seemed poised to douse the entire domestic industry. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has always been China’s window to the world. According to Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder, it is this deepwater port at the...

Arthur Hayes – co-founder of the crypto trading platform BitMex – published a lengthy blog post on Thursday arguing that central banks will be forced back into “money printing” due to various economic pressures. That money printing, he argued, will create inflation that drives up the price of alternative forms of money, like crypto and gold.  Inevitable Inflation In Hayes’s post titled “Contagion,” the former CEO began by highlighting the immediate difficulties of the global...

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes recently called Bitcoin the “cure” to yield curve control (YCC) – the process by which governments use quantitative easing to suppress rising bond yields.  The former CEO predicted that YCC will soon spread to central banks across the globe, implying the leading cryptocurrency will grow attractive in the process.  Bitcoin and the Bank of England Hayes’s comments were in response to the Bank of England (BOE)’s latest decision to conduct temporary...

Arthur Hayes – the co-founder and former CEO of one of the most popular cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges (BitMEX) – has laid out some thoughts on Ethereum’s Merge. In a recent tweet, Hayes argued that the only thing that matters (price-wise, seemingly), for ETH after the Merge is its net issuance. To those unaware, Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake introduced a dramatic shift in the cryptocurrency’s issuance model. The summarized calculations of...

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes recently explained why he believes Ethereum does not qualify as money – whereas Bitcoin does.   He touched on the deflationary economics surrounding the upcoming Ethereum Merge, and why there’s more to the story when designing an effective monetary instrument.  Gas, or Money? In an interview with the Unchained podcast on Tuesday, Hayes argued that Ethereum can’t be money if it also serves other purposes. “Ethereum has use – you use it to power...

Bitcoin and Ethereum slumped by double-digit percentages weekly after tapping multi-month highs last weekend. This resulted in over $150 billion gone from the entire market cap. Somewhat expectedly, the Fear and Greed Index has returned to a state of fear, but BitMEX’s co-founder – Arthur Hayes – believes this retracement could be an opportunity to stack up. Time to Buy, Says Hayes In its latest Twitter thread on the price actions in the crypto market, the former BitMEX...

In his latest blog post, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes broke down how he expects Ethereum traders to react before and after the merge. Based on the technicals of the upgrade, he suspects that Ethereum will rally after a successful transition in September, similarly to how Bitcoin rallies during its periodic halving cycles.  The Theory of Reflexivity In an article titled “ETH-flexive,” Hayes centers his bullish thesis around George Soros’s “theory of reflexivity.” The theory...