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Baek Hoon-jong’s Bitcoin PerspectiveOctober 30, 2026

“8 trillion won vanished?” The Binance hack and what to do first to protect your Bitcoin

An independent exercise, not a statement by the video creator or verification of every claim in the video.

Reconcile incident figures like a balance table

Practice with hypothetical values. If estimated outflows are 100 and 40 is frozen, do not record 40 as recovered before it is actually returned. With completed recovery of 10, outflows minus recoveries equal 90. If the company promises separate resources of 60, record funding and payment separately rather than subtracting the same recovery twice. Customer custody assets of 5,000 do not mean all of that is company money. Compare withdrawal suspension, key exposure and lost recovery material by asking who can restore access in each situation.

Check for yourself

  1. Which are confirmed: frozen funds, completed recoveries, company resources or customer payments?
  2. Is the denominator customer custody assets or available corporate capital?
  3. What recovery path remains if a device or recovery material is lost?

Limits of application

100, 40, 10, 90, 60 and 5,000 are hypothetical. This is not a legal loss or compensation formula; check token prices, timing, ownership and double counting. Never record actual recovery phrases or private keys in this exercise or share them with others.

What to look for
Distinguish estimated losses, freezing, recovery and compensation promises when interpreting an exchange incident.
Why it matters
Check figures and denominators in incident reports while comparing reliance on an exchange with loss and recovery risks of a personal wallet.

Timeline

6 segments
  1. Frozen assets are not automatically removed from losses. Recovery and customer restitution are separate steps, and the size of customer custody assets alone cannot establish compensation capacity.

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