CoinMarketCap bug shows Bitcoin’s price at an absurd $789 billion

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CoinMarketCap bug shows Bitcoin’s price at an absurd $789 billion

The Blocka month ago
Published on December 14, 2021 22:21 GMT+00:00edited on December 16, 2021 13:49 GMT+00:00

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Crypto data aggregator CoinMarketCap turned heads on Tuesday evening with a website bug resulting in eye-popping figures for prices, market capitalizations and more.

The bug was live for about one hour and has now been fixed.

In a tweet at 5 p.m. ET, the site's operators acknowledged the pricing issues, saying that "[t]he Engineering team is aware of incorrect price information appearing on [CoinMarketCap]. We are currently investigating and will update this status when we have more information."

[caption id="attachment_127545" align="alignnone" width="2770"] A bug on the CoinMarketCap website showed nearly every coin at skyhigh prices. Image: CoinMarketCap.[/caption]

According to the website, Bitcoin's market cap appears to be $14.7 quintillion. It also shows Cocos-BCX in first place …