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Popular data provider CoinMarketCap and crypto exchange Coinbase briefly showed vastly inflated cryptocurrency prices on Tuesday following apparent glitches on their respective platforms, leading some users to believe they made enormous gains off customer holdings.
Tweets from unverified accounts showed bitcoin's value on CoinMarketCap at $799 billion per coin, giving it a market value of $14.7 quintillion. Another tweet showed it trading even higher at $887 billion per coin on Coinbase.
CoinMarketCap said Tuesday its engineering team was aware of incorrect price information on its site, which seems to have lasted for about an hour. About an hour later, it said the team «has deployed a fix, all prices
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