Chainalysis hits BitMEX with ‘high risk’ warning


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Bitcoin Ethereum News Chainalysis, the influential cryptocurrency investigations firm, has slapped futures exchange BitMEX with a “high risk” label. On October 5, Chainalysis contacted its clients — which include government agencies, banks and exchanges — to advise them that it will consider BitMEX a “high risk exchange” from October 13 onward. Those using the company’s transaction monitoring tool, which is called KYT, will now see both future and historical transfers from BitMEX trigger alerts in the system. The news comes after the U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed charges against BitMEX and its owner-operators, including...