Bitget reopens bitcoin withdrawals four days after $387m hack
Bitget's notice reopening bitcoin withdrawals runs to two sentences and mentions neither ETH, USDT nor the $387.5m estimate it revised upward.
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Bitget says a $351.6m loss is fully covered by its $464m protection fund. Withdrawals stay paused, and no UK compensation scheme sits behind that.
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Binance’s CoinMarketCap buys CoinGlass, the liquidation tracker traders watch
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Tether puts its exposure to an at-risk offshore bank below 0.034%
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Hacker moves $83m of XRP taken from Bitget
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Circle and Tether froze $318,000 of the $387.5m taken from Bitget
Circle and Tether blacklisted a wallet holding about $318,000 in USDC and USDT. Most of the rest had already been swapped into ether, which can't be frozen.
Revolut’s euro stablecoin is live in three countries, and the UK isn’t one
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BitMEX has stopped trading and leftover balances now cost money
Trading ended at 04:00 UTC Wednesday and balances left behind now attract a fee, per Decrypt. Withdrawals remain open, so this is a wind-down.