# End Of An Era: BitMEX | Bitcoin News Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672/end-of-an-era-bitmex-bitcoin-news Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672/end-of-an-era-bitmex-bitcoin-news.md Podcast: [Bitcoin And | Bitcoin & Economic News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672) Published: 2026-07-23T16:46:29+00:00 Episode link: https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/bitcoin-and-/1389 Audio file: https://op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdcn.co/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.podhome.fm/episode/98d1b634-3ead-490c-ade3-08dc4d9e1446/639204213735393895ebe7a51b-579d-4689-ba12-e6e5fb7cb89a.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672/episodes/end-of-an-era-bitmex-bitcoin-news Duration seconds: 4431 ## Resource Bitcoin news and financial news update. Today I cover the permanent shutdown of BitMEX, a $15 million effort to strengthen Bitcoin against future quantum computing threats, Lightning Labs making Bitcoin payments easier for developers and autonomous agents, and another Swiss bank bringing bitcoin trading into its regular banking apps. I also look at two very different corporate bitcoin treasury moves, an unusual AI security story, and a $24 million DeFi exploit. Topics for today: BitMEX Sets Permanent Shutdown Bitcoin Quantum Security Gets $15M Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength Swiss Bank Adds Bitcoin Trading Smarter Web Sells 178 Bitcoin Zhibao Proposes 3,500 BTC Deal Open AI Helps Fight AI AFX Trade Loses $24 Million Circle P:   Bitcoin Beans   https://www.bitcoinbeans.co/ https://primal.net/BitcoinBeans Bitcoin Beans takes proof of work from the mine to your mug. Regeneratively grown Colombian cacao, hand selected by farmers paid in Bitcoin, lab tested for purity, and priced in sats. This is whole-bean cacao, not candy. It is proof-of-work you can taste. Use BITCOINAND code to receive a 5% discount Today’s Articles covering bitcoin news, bitcoin technology, and financial news: BitMEX will permanently close on September 23 after an 11-year run. New registrations have stopped, and the exchange will move to reduce-only trading before closing remaining positions. https://www.theblock.co/post/409495/bitmex-to-shut-down-permanently Strategy, BlackRock, and other founding members of the Bitcoin Security Consortium pledged $15 million over three years to support work on Bitcoin’s long-term quantum security. https://cointelegraph.com/news/strategy-consortium-15m-quantum-proof-bitcoin Lightning Labs launches Wavelength, a new developer platform designed to make Bitc… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672/episodes/end-of-an-era-bitmex-bitcoin-news/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news-869672/end-of-an-era-bitmex-bitcoin-news.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.