Baumgartner, Tim; Güttler, André - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022
Bitcoin plunged by 30% on May 19, 2021. We examine the outage the largest crypto exchange Binance experienced during the crash, when it halted trading for retail clients and stopped providing transaction data. We find evidence that Binance back-filled these missing transactions with data that...