BitMEX, the bitcoin futures exchange that has leased Hong Kong’s most expensive office in Cheung Kong Center for US$600,000 a month, has been shutting down client trading accounts in the US and the Canadian province of Quebec, as global regulators intensify their crack down on unlicensed cryptocurrency trading platforms.
The development comes at the same time as the Hong Kong-based company notifying users in North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan and Sevastopol in the Crimea since the…
Source : South China Morning Post
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