{"id":679881,"date":"2026-11-02T16:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=860835"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:41:58","slug":"brazils-mercado-bitcoin-halts-withdrawals-after-estimated-46m-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/brazils-mercado-bitcoin-halts-withdrawals-after-estimated-46m-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After Estimated $46M Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/brazil_bitcoin_reserve-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Mercado Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Brazil, said Monday that it had halted deposits and withdrawals following a &#8220;security incident.&#8221; A prominent analyst pegged the damages at $46 million worth of crypto and counting across numerous chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. &#160; Brazil&#8217;s Top Crypto Exchange Attacked On Monday, Mercado Bitcoin\u2014Brazil&#8217;s largest crypto exchange\u2014shared [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercado Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Brazil, said Monday that it had halted deposits and withdrawals following a &#8220;security incident.&#8221; A prominent analyst pegged the damages at $46 million worth of crypto and counting across numerous chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. &#160; Brazil&#8217;s Top Crypto Exchange Attacked On Monday, Mercado Bitcoin\u2014Brazil&#8217;s largest crypto exchange\u2014shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-679881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}