1 HDR Global Trading Limited was incorporated in the Seychelles in 2014.6.23 as a Seychelles International Business Company.  Throughout the Relevant Period, HDR has owned and operated the BitMEX trading platform. Despite being incorporated in the Seychelles, HDR does not have, and never has had, any operations or employees in the Seychelles. HDR operates, or has operated during the Relevant Period, out of various locations and offices throughout the world, including in New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bermuda.  “HDR” derives from the first letter of the last names of Hayes, Delo, and Reed, who are the three primary ultimate owners of HDR and its various subsidiaries, each holding  approximately a one-third ownership interest in HDR.  2 @100xGroup 100x Holdings Limited is a holding company  incorporated by Hayes,  Delo, and Reed in Bermuda.  In a July 15, 2020, blog post on the BitMEX website, Hayes “introduced” 100x and represented that “100x will become the new holding structure for HDR Global Trading and all our other assets, including the BitMEX platform.”  3 ABS Global Trading Limited is a Delaware limited liability company incorporated in 2017.4.27 through which BitMEX conducts some operations in the United States.  It is a subsidiary of HDR and 100x, and it is ultimately owned and controlled by Hayes, Delo, and Reed.  “ABS” derives from the first letters of the first names of Hayes, Delo, and Reed: Arthur,  Ben and Sam.  4 Shine Effort Inc Limited is a Hong Kong corporation incorporated in 2014.8.26, and  a subsidiary of HDR and 100x.  Shine is the corporate entity through which BitMEX conducts proprietary trading on its own BitMEX platform, as well as proprietary trading with other market participants on exchanges and over the counter throughout the world.  Shine is controlled by Hayes, Delo, and Reed.  5 HDR Global Services (Bermuda) Limited is a Bermudian entity incorporated in  2018 that employs certain personnel performing duties for BitMEX.  HDR, 100x, ABS, Shine, and HDR Services act as a single, integrated common enterprise. They share common office space, employees and operational resources. They advertise on a single website that does not distinguish between entities. They share common directors. They share common ownership. They share common legal and compliance resources.  They share operating expenses, and report financial activities in consolidated financial statements. BitMEX employees and executives refer to a BitMEX enterprise as opposed to distinguishing between legal entities. Employees of the various entities have “ email addresses. These entities operate as an integrated, common enterprise, and are described together in this complaint as “BitMEX.” @TheJusticeDept @CFTC  @USDOJ_Intl   @bitmex @CryptoHayes  @bendelo  @STRML_ @BitMEX_Ethan @Crypto_slutz @r_polansky @business @markets @BloombergAsia @Reuters

Chinese FM Wang Yi held talks with Seychellois Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora Barry Faure in Beijing. #China# highly appreciates #Seychelles#, together with the governments of many friendly countries, for lawfully and openly revoking overflight clearance for Lai Ching-te, a representative figure of the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces. Seychelles also issued a public statement explicitly stating its solemn position of upholding the one-China principle. The one-China principle has long become a prevailing consensus of the international community. It is believed that more and more countries will, like Seychelles, stand on the right side of international justice and history.

A journalist spent $11,000 on a forgotten island nobody wanted. Everyone thought he was insane. Brendon Grimshaw walked away from a newsroom career in Yorkshire, signed the papers four minutes before midnight on the last night of his Seychelles holiday, and inherited a dead patch of land called Moyenne. The place was a wasteland. Coconuts so tangled they couldn't even fall to the ground. No wildlife worth mentioning. Just silence. So he got to work. Alongside his friend René Lafortune, Brendon spent the next 39 years planting trees one by one. By hand. No machines. No crew. Just two men and a vision. 16,000 trees later, Moyenne looked nothing like the barren rock he'd bought. Then came the animals. He reintroduced more than 120 giant Aldabra tortoises, a species teetering on extinction. Around 2,000 new birds found their way back to the island. Today, two-thirds of all the fauna in the Seychelles call Moyenne home. Word got out. Tourism exploded across the region in the 80s, and developers came knocking. A Saudi prince reportedly slid $50 million across the table for the island. Brendon said no. "I don't want the island to become a favorite vacation spot for the rich," he said. "Better let it be a national park that everyone can enjoy." In 2008, that's exactly what happened. Moyenne became the smallest national park on Earth. Lafortune died in 2007. Brendon stayed on the island until his own death in 2012. He's buried there, next to his father, surrounded by every tree he ever planted. He took a dead island and gave it back to the world. Source: BBC / Silverback Digest / Story Seychelles

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