{"id":71403,"date":"2026-02-07T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71403"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:01:40","slug":"crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-44-billion-in-bitcoin-to-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=71403","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Firm Accidentally Sends $44 Billion in Bitcoin to Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Saturday, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange <strong>Bithumb<\/strong> faced a significant blunder, accidentally distributing over $40 billion worth of <strong>Bitcoins<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) to customers during a promotional event. The exchange initially intended to give small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won ($1.40) or more to each user, but instead, winners received at least 2,000 Bitcoins each, leading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/50286755\/investors-pull-nearly-818-million-from-bitcoin-etfs-as-cryptocurrency-tanks\"> to a massive selloff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports that Bithumb has since recovered 99.7% of the 620,000 Bitcoins mistakenly distributed, worth about $44 billion. The exchange restricted trading and withdrawals for the 695 affected customers within 35 minutes of the error on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to make it clear that this incident is unrelated to external hacking or security breaches, and there are no problems with system security or customer asset management,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50467884\/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-44-billion-in-bitcoin-to-users?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Crypto\" firm accidentally sends billion in bitcoin to users>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb faced a significant blunder, accidentally distributing over $40 billion worth of Bitcoins (CRYPTO: BTC) to customers during a promotional event. The exchange initially intended to give small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won ($1.40) or more to each user, but instead, winners received at least 2,000 Bitcoins each, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-71403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}