According to BlockBeats, on April 13, Newsis reported that the Bank of Korea stated that in order to prevent a recurrence of the incident known as the "Bithumb accidental release incident"—which involved the accidental release of Bitcoin worth trillions of won—it is necessary to introduce a "circuit breaker" mechanism in the virtual asset industry.
The Bank of Korea's payment and settlement report for last year, released on the 13th, included a review of the incident that occurred in February of this year: During the distribution of promotional bonuses, Bithumb made a mistake due to an employee's error, incorrectly entering Bitcoin as the unit of payment instead of Korean won. As a result, instead of the intended distribution of approximately 620,000 Korean won worth of Bitcoin, 620,000 Bitcoins (equivalent to approximately 60 trillion Korean won) were mistakenly distributed.
