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A Decade Ago, a $6.3 Billion Hack: Security incident

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Binance hack would have sunk the exchange a decade ago. Past hacks hit Bitcoin short term. The post A Decade Ago, a $6.3 Billion Hack Would Have Sunk Binance & BTC, Bitwise CIO Says appeared first on BeInCrypto .

StatusConfirmed
Reported loss$6.3B
ChainBitcoin
Confidence80%

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First seen: 2026-11-02T00:40:00.000Z. Last updated: 2026-11-02T06:47:24.099Z. Revision: 1.