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\nBitMEX, the bitcoin futures exchange that has leased Hong Kong\u2019s 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.
\nThe 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…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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BitMEX, the bitcoin futures exchange that has leased Hong Kong\u2019s most expensive office in Cheung...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-qMQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96484,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/us600000-monthly-office-rent-is-a-breeze-for-a-digital-currency-exchange\/","url_meta":{"origin":102972,"position":0},"title":"US$600,000 monthly office rent is a breeze for a digital currency exchange","date":"August 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r BitMEX, a trading platform for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has rented the entire 45th floor of the Cheung Kong Center for HK$225 per square foot per month, making it the most expensive office in Hong Kong. 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