{"id":1047005,"date":"2026-11-04T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047005"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:55:44","slug":"why-crypto-exchanges-get-hacked-and-bitcoin-etfs-do-not-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/why-crypto-exchanges-get-hacked-and-bitcoin-etfs-do-not-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why crypto exchanges get hacked, and Bitcoin ETFs do not | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Bitget, one of the world&#8217;s larger crypto exchanges, lost about $352 million from its internet-connected wallets. A year and a half earlier, Bybit lost about $1.5 billion. Indian investors remember WazirX, which lost about $230 million in July 2024 and froze withdrawals for months.<\/p>\n<p>Over the same period, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have grown to hold more than $100 billion of Bitcoin. None of them has reported losing any to a hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Bitget, one of the world&#8217;s larger crypto exchanges, lost about $352 million from its internet-connected wallets. A year and a half earlier, Bybit lost about $1.5 billion. Indian investors remember WazirX, which lost about $230 million in July 2024 and froze withdrawals for months. Over the same period, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have grown to hold more than $100 billion of Bitcoin. None of them has reported losing any to a hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047006,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047005\/revisions\/1047006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}