News bitcoin hacked tend to make people panic
bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices continue to decline to the lowest level this year. This is because the case hacking during this week, so the news spread in one of the national media. Here Translated from the official website KOMPAS.com. What I want to discuss is the extent of the truth of this news,
KOMPAS.com - prices of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency continues to decline to the lowest level this year. This is because the case hack during this week that broke the coin worth about 37 million US dollars (about Rp 516.5 billion).
The news was delivered by South Korea's currency exchange agency Coinrail, which also said hackers earn about 30 percent of their coin and token reserves.
Some of the affected tokens are Pundi X (NPXS), ATX, NPER, and DENT.
To overcome this problem, Coinrail said, the coin exchange will be done offline while the remaining time and assets are transferred to cold storage (frozen).
Meanwhile it will still review the security system and work with law enforcement to investigate. However, it does not mention how offline exchange can compensate customers.
On Monday (6/11/2018) morning, bitcoin prices fell 6 percent. Ars Technica reported compassTekno compiled, bitcoin has lost half the price since last year, where the exchange rate is quite volatile.
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