Bitcoin Derivatives Platform BTC.sx Resumes Trading After Mt Gox-Induced Freeze

Bitcoin Derivatives Platform BTC.sx Resumes Trading After Mt Gox-Induced Freeze

Derivatives trading site BTC.sx has resumed trading after a few weeks of downtime induced by the Mt. Gox collapse. The company has signed Bitstamp as its new exchange partner, said BTC.sx CEO Joseph Lee. BTC.sx suspended its operations until further notice on February 25, after Mt. Gox imploded. At the time, Lee told CoinDesk that he had no prior warning from the exchange, even as a business partner. BTC.sx went to Gox to trade bitcoins on behalf of its customers, who were using Lee's site to trade bitcoin-based derivatives. The company was up to around $40m in brokered trades by the time....


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