We’ve just unlocked our latest welcome offer, giving newly verified users the chance to earn up to 45 BMEX. Our ongoing BMEX offers for existing users have also been extended until 30 April 2022, giving you another month to stock up on BMEX before BitMEX Spot goes live. BMEX will become tradable when BitMEX Spot...Read More
(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) The zenith of the fiduciary is upon us. Never before in the history of human civilisation has a class...Read More
I read through the engaging and addictive book in just two days. The Cryptopians includes fascinating behind the scenes details on the early days of Ethereum. It focuses on the character flaws of the main people involved and various early disputes and confrontations. The book then moves on to its two main topics, The Dao...Read More
In February 2022, Gleb Naumenko (Bitmex grant recipient) and Antoine Riard posted a CoinPool whitepaper. The earlier version of the project received less technical coverage in Bitcoin Magazine. This post attempts to build up some intuition on the CoinPool proposal by answering questions based on the feedback. It is aimed at slightly-technical readers (those, who...Read More
Fans of the Bored Ape Yacht Club – look no further. ApeCoin (APE) has arrived to the BitMEX ecosystem. Our USDT-margined APE perpetual contract is now live and available for trading. Users will be able to select up to 33x leverage – one of the highest offered on ApeCoin in the derivatives space.APE in with...Read More
Our platform is growing with the launch of Ether (ETH) support. From today, BitMEX users will be able to deposit, withdraw, buy, and convert ETH, Ethereum’s native token. We will also be supporting a growing range of coins and tokens over the coming weeks, so stay tuned. Here’s a deeper look at what you’ll be...Read More
A quick update that on 25 March 2022 at 12:00:05 UTC, BitMEX will update the Index Multipliers of our basket indices. The Index Multipliers will be scaled based on the Conditional Index Multipliers below to ensure that the index price has the same value as the previous Index Multipliers. Please refer to the respective index...Read More
(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) The last major hydrocarbon energy shock occurred because Arab suppliers rug pulled the West. The Gulf States “lived their...Read More
In the lead up to the launch of BitMEX Spot, we will be supporting a growing range of coins and tokens over the coming weeks. Next up, we have Ether (ETH), Ethereum’s native token. Here are some of the new things you will be able to do on our platform later this week: Buy ETH...Read More
Mercuryo, a digital asset payment gateway, is now integrated with BitMEX, enabling users an even faster and more secure way to make their fiat-to-crypto purchases. It’s an integration that means 21 more Fiat currencies can now be used to buy Bitcoin and Tether (ERC-20) on BitMEX. The new supported currencies are: AED, ARS, BRL, CHF,...Read More
We are proud to announce that we have joined the VerifyVASP Alliance. VerifyVASP provides best-in-class travel rule solutions for virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to facilitate their compliance with the travel rule requirements. What This Means for BitMEX Importantly, as a member of the VerifyVASP Alliance, we will be able to continue to send and...Read More
In Five Ways the World of Crypto will Change, our number one prediction was that more women than ever will embrace crypto in 2022. This International Women’s Day, we wanted to go a little deeper, and ask three women at BitMEX what they think is next on the horizon. Women, who are already breaking the...Read More
A quick update that our new mobile app is in beta testing with 200 BitMEX users from today. Through much of March, these users will be providing valuable feedback to our product team, to help them finesse and finish the final version of BitMEX’s new mobile app before it makes its public debut in early...Read More
On 16 March 2022 at 04:00 UTC, we will be listing new quarterly Futures on BitMEX. The new contracts will be visible on the platform from 15 March at 04:00 UTC as Unlisted, 24 hours before the start of trading. Please see the table below for the listing and settlement dates of current and upcoming...Read More
On 25 March 2022 at 12:00:05 UTC, BitMEX will update its index weights. From today onwards, the hypothetical values of indices with their new weights will be published as the “NEXT” index family (e.g. .BXBT_NEXT). As of 25 March 2022 at 12:00:05 UTC, assuming no constituent exchanges have been excluded due to Index Protection Rules,...Read More
On 2 March 2022 at 04:00 UTC, we listed our new monthly XBT futures contract on BitMEX. Please see the table below for the listing and settlement dates of our current futures contracts. Code Pair Listing Date Settlement Date XBTH22 Bitcoin / USD 15 September 2021 25 March 2022 XBTJ22 Bitcoin / USD 2 March...Read More
(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) Thankfully, unlike many others around the world, my experiences of war are sanitised and indirect. Two of my mother’s...Read More
Why leave your BMEX idle, when you can be earning more rewards? Following the first BMEX airdrop, many of our users have started staking BMEX to unlock fee discounts and other exclusive benefits on the BitMEX platform. If you do not have enough BMEX Tokens yet, there’s still time – check out our upcoming airdrops...Read More
We are pleased to announce the launch of four long-awaited linear perpetual contracts: AVAXUSDT, EOSUSDT, LINKUSDT, and LUNAUSDT. This marks a major milestone in the evolution of our derivatives products, as we now support all of the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap. And if you’re a fan of our EOSUSD and LINKUSD Quanto contracts,...Read More
Abstract: We provide a follow on to our March 2020 piece, Inflation Is Coming. Inflation has now reached the highest levels since the early 1980s and the Fed will and must tighten liquidity conditions in response. Despite what some think, we believe this inevitable tightening of liquidity conditions will have a significant impact on consumer...Read More
Our partner ecosystem has expanded again with the addition of ten new members: Avelacom, B-Cube, Bequant Pro, Bookmap, Crypto Index Series, CryptoQuant, Fly Signals, GoCharting, Hummingbot, and Tealstreet. With more partners onboard, our users now have access to a wider variety of exclusive privileges and services that they can use to enhance their trading experience.Our...Read More
This blog presents an overview of our report, entitled ‘Five Ways the World of Crypto Will Change in 2022.’ You’ll find the full report here. To say that 2021 was a wild year for crypto would be an understatement. Consider some of the top events of 2021: 1. El Salvador became the first country to...Read More
We’ve just launched our first-ever metaverse basket contract on BitMEX. Here’s a detailed overview of our new contracts: Contract Contract Type Contract Size Max Order Quantity Lot Size Minimum Trade Amount Initial Margin Maintenance Margin ALTMEXTUSDT Linear Perpetual 0.0001 ALTMEXT 1,000,000,000 1,000 0.1 ALTMEXT 4.00% 2.00% DEFIMEXTUSDT Linear Perpetual 0.0001 DEFIMEXT 1,000,000,000 1,000 0.1 DEFIMEXT...Read More
Abstract: In this short and simple piece, we take a look at a list of the lowest block hash values in Bitcoin history. We also compare the block hash values with the difficulty target and identify blocks where the block hash was lowest relative to the necessary target. The Bitcoin block mined on 15 June...Read More
As of today, BitMEX supports withdrawals to Bech32m Bitcoin addresses. These are also called “taproot addresses”. The first BitMEX client withdrawal to such an address occurred earlier today. BitMEX is proud to use the latest Bitcoin technology, to provide better features and lower fees for our users. We have made considerable progress in this area,...Read More
Last week, we airdropped 1.8 million BMEX to our new and existing users – but the race to accrue as many BMEX Tokens as possible is still on. Today, we’ve unlocked our Crypto Converter offer, giving every user the chance to earn up to 250 BMEX. Check out our Token promotions page to see if...Read More
Abstract: In this report we look at address re-use in Bitcoin. Address re-use is generally considered as a bad privacy practice and unfortunately it remains at an elevated level. Currently around 50% of transaction outputs are sent to previously used addresses. Although the situation has improved somewhat since 2013, when the 75% level was breached....Read More
Today’s the day: more than 1.5 million BMEX Tokens have been airdropped to new and existing BitMEX users. Congratulations to the first-ever BMEX holders. All users who are eligible to receive the airdrop will be able to see their BMEX balance by visiting the BitMEX wallet page.Want to earn even more BMEX? Start staking BMEX...Read More
We’re happy to announce that our BMEX Token Litepaper is now live. And get ready: we’re airdropping over a million BMEX tomorrow. All BitMEX users who are eligible for the airdrop will be able to start staking BMEX from tomorrow at 10:00 UTC onwards.Since the launch of BMEX, we’ve received a tremendous amount of interest...Read More
We are very proud to announce the launch of BitMEX Academy, a multimedia crypto education platform which will offer a new way to learn about crypto for beginner and expert traders alike. BitMEX Academy will bring together the greatest minds in the industry to share their knowledge on cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, trading fundamentals, and other...Read More
