Coinbase mistakenly told some customers they were billionaires

Their worlds had changed for a brief moment.

Many of them billionaires were made on Tuesday afternoon when a display issue changed the balances of an untold number of customers' accounts. No real trading was affected by the glitch, so billionaires are on paper.

"We're aware that some customers are seeing inflated values for non-tradablecryptocurrencies on Coinbase.com and Coinbase wallet," read the statement. This is a display issue that does not affect trading.

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It was too late for those who saw their inflated accounts and thought they were rich.

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For some customers the sheer size of the sums involved would have been enough of a red flag, but for others it's not impossible. The October Shiba Inu coin was up 60,000,000 percent. It's understandable why some people might have believed that they had finally made it.

From the beginning, others knew that something had been broken on the side of the company.

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We reached out to the company to find out what went wrong. We did not receive an immediate response. Maybe its PR team saw their inflated wallet and decided it was time to quit.