CZ Responds to Binance hack, says user assets were unaffected

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CZ The Binance hack had a far smaller impact than Mt.Gox on Bitcoin

PANews October 31 reported that CZ responded to discussions that the Binance hack had a limited impact on Bitcoin's price, stating that the stolen 6300000000 USD was the largest in scale by USD, but not when measured by the number of bitcoins.Mt.Gox lost approximately 650000 bitcoins that year,BTC accounting for more than 5%of Bitcoin's total supply, and had a greater impact.CZ pointed out that assessing the impact of a hacking incident also requires considering the number of affected users and the proportion of their assets that were compromised.Mt.Gox and FTX incidents affected users and their assets on an almost comprehensive scale, whereas in the Binance incident, the only victim was the platform itself; users' assets were unaffected, and the platform will bear all losses.CZ acknowledged that the incident was still a major blow to the crypto industry, Binance, and himself, but stressed that Binance could weather the crisis and that protecting users was the most important priority.

Source: https://www.panewslab.com/zh/articles/01a18d8f-9a90-76e6-8222-7e280bed1534

Key points

CZ said that the amount stolen from Binance was the largest by USD, at 6300000000 USD, but not the largest when measured by the number of bitcoins.
CZ said that Mt.Gox lost approximately 650000 bitcoins that year,BTC accounting for more than 5%of Bitcoin's total supply.
CZ said that the only victim of the Binance incident was the platform itself, users' assets were unaffected, and the platform would bear all losses.
CZ said that assessing the impact of a hacking incident also requires considering the number of affected users and the proportion of their assets that were compromised.

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CZ compares the Binance incident with the Mt.Gox、FTX incident, viewing whether users suffered asset losses as an important factor in assessing the impact.

Why it matters to readers

This information focuses on who bears the losses from the hacking incident, the impact on users' assets, and the assessment of its effect on Bitcoin's price.

Beginners can first distinguish between platform losses and user-asset losses, then understand the scope of the incident's impact.

Risks and unknowns

The claims concerning the scale of the theft, the destination of the funds, and users' assets being unaffected mainly come from CZ and media reports quoting it; no independent verification has yet been seen in the evidence.
The evidence does not provide a formal statement from Binance, on-chain tracking, or the results of regulatory action.
The evidence does not provide actual data on changes in Bitcoin's price resulting from the incident.

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