Founded in the Republic of Seychelles, BitMEX is the state-of-the-art Bitcoin Derivatives Exchange that offers leverage up to 100x for bitcoin products and high leverage for other digital currency products.BitMEX uses the latest multi-factor safety mechanism from the inside out to provide high safety performance. BitMEX also offers a variety of contract types. All contracts are bought and paid in bitcoin.BitMEX's founders team consists of the best experts in finance, web development and high-frequency algorithmic trading.Co-Founder and CEO - Arthur Hayes,Arthur graduated from Wharton Business School majoring in economics and worked as a stock derivative trader in Hong Kong after graduation. He is the maker of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at Deutsche Bank and Citibank. At the same time, he has extensive experience in dealing in stock index futures, forwards, swaps and non-deliverable forward foreign exchange. Arthur has a deep understanding of how to structure and trade financial derivatives.Co-Founder and CTO - Samuel Reed,Samuel graduated in computer science from Washington and Lee University. He has more than 10 years of professional programming experience. Sam has served as chief technology officer for two technology companies (Tixelated and Global Brand Solutions of Hong Kong). He has also contracted web applications for many other companies. Sam's main area of ​​expertise lies in building modern, real-time web applications and interfaces, and he is a frequent contributor to open source projects.Co-Founder and COO - Ben Delo,Ben graduated from the University of Oxford with a master's degree in mathematics and computer science and first class honors. He has more than 10 years of development experience in high frequency trading systems and has previously worked for JPMorgan Investment Bank and IBM Corporation, primarily using KDB + / Q technology. His expertise covers the design, architecture and implementation of quantitative trading systems and tools.