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Crypto.com sent $400 million to the wrong recipient, but got it back THIS TIME
the verge ^ | 11/13/2022 | Emma Roth

Posted on 11/13/2022 11:18:06 AM PST by catnipman

Crypto.com just admitted to making another very large and concerning clerical error: it mistakenly sent 320,000 in Ethereum (~$416 million USD) to another cryptocurrency exchange, called Gate.io, about three weeks ago (via Web3 Is Going Just Great). In a post on Twitter, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company was supposed to send the crypto to one of its cold, or offline, wallets, but accidentally sent it to a “whitelisted” address belonging to its corporate account at Gate.io.

[competitor] Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao appeared to allude to the situation in a tweet on Sunday morning, stating: “If an exchange have to move large amounts of crypto before or after they demonstrate their wallet addresses, it is a clear sign of problems. Stay away.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bitcoin; cryptocurrency; ftx; sambankmanfried
"stay away" = good advice

crypto "exchange" "accounts" are NOT BANK ACCOUNTS ... all your crypto belong to us ...

1 posted on 11/13/2022 11:18:06 AM PST by catnipman
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Invest in crypto they said......you’ll clean up they said.......totally secure they said....


2 posted on 11/13/2022 11:35:12 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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ain’t technology grand???


3 posted on 11/13/2022 1:49:03 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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