Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million just 11 days before exchange shutdown
Celsius Network’s bankruptcy estate has sued BitMEX over a 2020 liquidation cascade it says cost more than 6,360 Bitcoin. The complaint, filed Sept. 12 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses entities behind the crypto derivatives exchange of fraud, market manipulation and wrongful liquidations during Bitcoin’s historic March 2020 […] The post Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million just 11 days before exchange shutdown appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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- Celsius Network’s bankruptcy estate has sued BitMEX over a 2020 liquidation cascade it says cost more than 6,360 Bitcoin.
- The complaint, filed Sept.
- 12 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses entities behind the crypto derivatives exchange of fraud, market manipulation and wrongful liquidations during Bitcoin’s historic March 2020 […] The post Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million just 11 days before exchange shutdown appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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