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Is Coinbase Safe After the $6 Billion Binance Hack?

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Total crypto marketall crypto assets combined no single asset in the event: read against the whole market
first headline
-0.1% 2 h before
-0.2% 4 h after
$2.6Tmarket cap at publication
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Nov 1 17:54
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