Alex Krüger 
Da Hongfei 
FTX CEO: Bitcoin price might have gone to zero if BitMEX hadn’t gone offline
The CEO of Hong Kong-based crypto derivatives exchange FTX has speculated that if BitMEX had not gone offline on account of “hardware issues” Friday morning, the price of Bitcoin could have crashed to zero.
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