Bithumb mistake sent BTC price to $55,000 on that exchange
Bitcoin BTC$69,146.15 suffered a flash crash to $55,000 on South Korean exchange Bithumb this week after what appears to have been a major internal accounting error. Bithumb mistakenly credited users with 2,000 BTC each instead of a small reward worth 2,000 Korean won (about $1.50), according to a blog post on Friday. The result was…