Indictments issued for BitMEX senior team are a signal to all

Cointelegraph

Published Oct 03, 2020 10:00AM ET

Updated Oct 03, 2020 11:40AM ET

On the morning of Oct. 1, the United States government authorities in New York issued indictments for four of the senior team of BitMEX, the famed “wild card” exchange based in Hong Kong. Despite that, the crypto exchange still continues to operate its services.

BitMEX is one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges and has a reputation for being notoriously “relaxed” on Know Your Customer and ID procedures for its users — at least until mid-August of this year. Additionally, users are allowed a high withdrawal limit with little to no KYC.

Cal Evans is an international technology lawyer from London who studied financial markets at Yale University and has experience working with some of the best-known companies in Silicon Valley. In 2016, Cal left a top-10 California law firm to start Gresham International — a legal service and compliance firm specializing in the technology sector that now has offices in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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