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Major Crypto Exchanges Prevented People From Sending At Least $300,000 Bitcoin to Twitter Attackers

Lily Yang

Summary: More than $300,000 worth of bitcoin transactions that were involved in the Twitter scam last week were held back by the world’s largest crypto exchange platforms, as reported by Forbes.  Coinbase—the largest crypto exchange platform—said it blacklisted the scam address and prevented more than 1100 users from sending $280,000 worth of Bitcoin. Gemini, Binance, BitPay ...

More than $300,000 worth of bitcoin transactions that were involved in the Twitter scam last week were held back by the world’s largest crypto exchange platforms, as reported by Forbes. 

Coinbase—the largest crypto exchange platform—said it blacklisted the scam address and prevented more than 1100 users from sending $280,000 worth of Bitcoin. Gemini, Binance, BitPay also confirmed that they put a stop to users’ attempts to send BTC.

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