BitMEX: 1 Million BTC Contracts Traded in a Day as New Derivatives Launched
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:46 am
In spite of the bearish trends that have plagued the markets over the past two weeks, Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMex has traded more than 1 million BTC contracts in a single day for the second time in a month. A total of 1,027,214.62 Bitcoin contracts (worth roughly $6.6 billion) were traded on Wednesday, August 8th.
A new BitMEX (and industry) record: 1,000,000 XBT (> $8BN) traded in the last 24 hours!
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BitMex CEO Arthur Hayes attributed the massive uptick in trading on ... (read more)