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Arthur Hayes is an American entrepreneur, trader and the CEO of BitMex, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives trading website that Hayes co-foundedhttps://www.bitmex.com/app/aboutUs with Ben Delo and Samuel Reed. Hayes lives in Hong Kong and previously worked for Deutsche Bank and Citibank’s Exchange Traded Fund.
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BitMex was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in the Seychelles. The platform only handles prices in , rather than fiat currencies, meaning that all gains and losses will be in . BitMex offers a variety of trading services including margin trading with up to 100 times leverage (meaning that a deposit of $1,000 will result in a trader having the ability to trade $100,000 worth of BTC) and futures trading (allowing investors to bet on the future prices of BTC).
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Hayes is a bitcoin advocate and has argued that cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and digital fiat money controlled by banks will compete and create two currency systems.
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