Jeffrey Tucker
A New Currency for the Digital Age
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Entry requirements Subscribe to Fidelity's Decode Crypto newsletter Cryptocurrency exchanges are often targeted by hackers, and if an exchange is successfully hacked, traders could lose all of their funds. The most famous example of this was the hack of the Tokyo-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, in which almost 750,000 of customers’ bitcoins (along with 100,000 of its own bitcoins) worth a total of about $473 million at the time, were lost.