How billions of dollars landed in the accounts of crypto traders in Nigeria

  • Nigerians are disappointed that billions of dollars they found in their crypto wallets disappeared as quickly as they were deposited
  • Many shared screenshots of what their accounts looked like after Coinbase, a crypto platform mistakenly paid billions into their accounts
  • Coinbase clarified that the error was caused by a glitch in their system which sent account holders wallets bumping with billions

Several Nigerian cryptocurrency investors have shown massive amounts of money running into billions of dollars credited into their wallets in a global glitch that made many momentary billionaires overnight.

After Legit.ng reported a story of Chinedu MacGordon who woke up to a bloated cryptocurrency account, many took to the comment section Legit.ng’s Facebook pages to share screenshots of what they found on their Coinbase wallets.