Persons that are located in or a resident of the United States of America or Québec (Canada) are prohibited from holding positions or entering into contracts at BitMEX.
Persons that are located in or a resident of Cuba, Crimea and Sevastopol, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Sudan, or any other jurisdiction where the services offered by BitMEX are restricted, are prohibited from holding positions or entering into contracts at BitMEX.
BitMEX reserves the right to immediately close the accounts and to liquidate the open positions of persons determined to have breached our Terms of Service.
Effective 15 July 2019 at 15:15 UTC, BitMEX will reintroduce Kraken into its indices following the resumption of trading on Kraken. The 7 affected BitMEX indices are detailed in the blog post.
Effective 14 July 2019 at 21:00 UTC, BitMEX will temporarily remove Kraken from its indices in response to Kraken’s scheduled downtime. This scheduled downtime is expected to last for 3-8 hours and will affect the 7 BitMEX indices as detailed in the blog post. Traders should exercise caution. Kraken will be reintroduced once trading has resumed. We will announce their reintroduction 12 hours in advance.
Security has always been the number one priority at BitMEX. We would like to remind all users to please protect your BitMEX and personal accounts by using strong and unique passwords, enabling 2FA, and using a password manager. For more detail: https://blog.bitmex.com/important-security-advisory-update-june-2019/
The scheduled system update has successfully concluded. The BitMEX platform is now back to full functionality. The update was performed from 01:00 UTC to 02:58 UTC today, 04 June 2019. No trading activity was affected.