Around 700 Bithumb users bought Random Boxes, meaning roughly 672 likely received the erroneous Bitcoin. That would put the current value of Bitcoin accidentally transferred to Bithumb customers at over $95.4 billion.
世界巨大的草台班子！刚刚韩国第二大币圈交易所 Bithumb，出现了短时比特币 -22% 的向下插针。
原因竟然是 Bithumb 交易所误将 2000 枚比特币，当成 2000 韩元奖励，错发给了数百名用户。
But that was plenty enough time for some amazed Bithumb users to attempt to sell off the funds and make millions off the company’s error. Korean financial authorities estimate that users managed to sell off over $2 billion worth of the phantom Bitcoin in that window, per local reports.
“The Bitcoin price temporarily fluctuated sharply as some accounts that received the Bitcoin sold it,” Bithumb said. “We want to make it clear that this incident is unrelated to any external hacking or security breach, and does not pose any issues with system security or customer asset management,” the company added.
Bithumb further insisted that the chain of events did not result in any customer’s loss of preexisting assets.
