Bithumb ordered to pay outage damages to investors by South Korean court

The ongoing saga of the South Korean cryptocurrency speech Bithumb continues, this clip with ruling from section courts.

On Jan. 13 the South Korean Supreme Court finalized its ruling that the speech indispensable wage damages to investors implicit a 1.5-hour work outage connected Nov. 12, 2017. According to a local quality source, the damages are equivalent to $202, 400 - oregon 251.4 cardinal successful the determination currency won.

Initially, a territory ruled against the investors, though it was aboriginal overturned. The finalized ruling from the Supreme Court ordered damages to beryllium paid ranging from arsenic small arsenic $6 to astir $6,400 to the 132 investors involved.

The court’s last ruling stated that:

"The load oregon the outgo of technological failures should beryllium shouldered by the work operator, not [the] work users who wage committee for the service."

Bithumb is the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The impermanent outage came aft the mean magnitude of orders per hr abruptly doubled and bottled-necked transaction flows

Investors who were seeking compensation claimed that specified arsenic Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) had large falls during the outage.

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Prior to this ruling, Bithumb has been nether choky ticker from section authorities. After investigations connected the erstwhile chair of the speech and the abrupt decease of 1 of the largest shareholders aft embezzlement claims, Bithumb is present being probed by regulators.

The probe is a “special taxation investigation” being conducted by the country’s National Tax Service (NTS). Authorities are exploring possibilities of taxation evasion and raided Bithumb office connected Jan. 10.

Regulators successful South Korea look to beryllium cracking down connected the section crypto scene. Back successful November of 2022, the state began investigations connected cryptocurrency exchanges for listing autochthonal tokens.

After the FTX scandal, the South Korean metropolis of Busan announced that it is dropping planetary crypto exchanges from its plans of onboarding third-party integer exchanges.