{"id":151110,"date":"2026-02-11T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151110"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:45:52","slug":"kryptobirzha-bithumb-pomylkovo-pererahuvala-korystuvacham-bitcoin-na-44-mlrd","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/kryptobirzha-bithumb-pomylkovo-pererahuvala-korystuvacham-bitcoin-na-44-mlrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bithumb Crypto Exchange Mistakenly Credits Users With $44 Billion in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"470\">South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb faced what has been described as the largest operational incident in crypto history on Saturday. During a promotional campaign to distribute bonus points, a technical glitch mistakenly credited 695 users with Bitcoin worth $44 billion (around 620,000 BTC). Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"648\">According to the platform\u2019s official statement, instead of awarding bonus points equivalent to 2,000 won ($1.37), the system transferred 2,000 BTC to some participants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"897\">The exchange\u2019s technical team detected the anomaly after 35 minutes, during which access to the affected accounts was frozen. Bithumb confirmed that more than 99.7% of the mistakenly transferred assets have now been successfully recovered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"899\" data-end=\"1193\">The incident triggered a short-term shock in Bithumb\u2019s local Bitcoin order book. As some users attempted to sell the assets, BTC prices on Bithumb dropped by 17%, falling to 81.1 million won, while prices on global exchanges remained stable. The price gap has since been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1363\">Despite the massive figures involved, Bithumb stressed that the incident did not affect other clients\u2019 funds and did not impact the platform\u2019s overall solvency.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1365\" data-end=\"1476\">South Korean regulators have already requested a report on measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151111,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151110","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151110"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151110"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}