{"id":671037,"date":"2026-10-31T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:10:12","slug":"have-you-ever-invested-in-cryptocurrency-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/671037\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever invested in cryptocurrency? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRYPTOCURRENCY PLATFORM BINANCE has revealed it fell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/binance-crypto-hack-7209671-Oct2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">victim to a major hack<\/a> that hit around $6.3 billion (\u20ac5.66 billion) in funds.<\/p>\n<p>The company \u2014 the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange by daily trading volumes \u2014 posted a series of sometimes contradictory messages on X, insisting that \u201cuser funds are completely safe\u201d but also saying it would \u201ccover all losses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the company said later on its X account for Latin America that \u201cthe total estimated impact is around $6.3 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Binance comes as many observers express worries that the ever-expanding capabilities of AI models could compromise cryptography and IT security protocols.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0cryptocurrency in the news, we want to know, have you ever invested in it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>No, and I have no plans to. (2083)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, and I still own some (816)<\/p>\n<p>No, but I&#8217;ve considered it (292)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but I no longer own any (279)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRYPTOCURRENCY PLATFORM BINANCE has revealed it fell victim to a major hack that hit around $6.3 billion (\u20ac5.66&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35906,72,4061,9104,6761,61,60,3865,3867],"class_list":["post-671037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-binance","tag-business","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-daily-poll","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-poll","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}