Key Findings On February 6, 2026, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb accidentally credited 620,000 bitcoins (worth around $40 billion) to 695 customer accounts instead of the small rewards (worth around $1.40) they were supposed to receive. The error occurred due to a system configuration mistake during a promotional event, where the payment unit was mistakenly set as "BTC" instead of "Korean won". Bithumb was able to recover 99.7% of the mistakenly distributed bitc
