{"id":671175,"date":"2026-10-14T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=855947"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:40:42","slug":"bitmex-faces-26-million-claim-over-1053-losing-bitcoin-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/bitmex-faces-26-million-claim-over-1053-losing-bitcoin-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitmex Faces $26 Million Claim Over 1,053 Losing Bitcoin Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/CNwxY4ER-open-interest-on-bitmex-drops-16-investors-withdraw-37000-btc-in-less-than-24-hours-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitmex on a smartphone\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A British software engineer wants 324.8 BTC back from Bitmex, claiming the cryptocurrency exchange had no legal authority to offer him derivatives trading in the United Kingdom. His demand, worth approximately $26 million using today&#8217;s exchange rates, targets more than 1,000 losing trades. British Trader Challenges Four Years of Bitcoin Losses Lewis Barber, a software [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British software engineer wants 324.8 BTC back from Bitmex, claiming the cryptocurrency exchange had no legal authority to offer him derivatives trading in the United Kingdom. His demand, worth approximately $26 million using today&#8217;s exchange rates, targets more than 1,000 losing trades. British Trader Challenges Four Years of Bitcoin Losses Lewis Barber, a software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-671175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}