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South Korean markets staged a dramatic recovery this week, with the Kospi surging seventeen percent after a brutal three-day selloff wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the country's stock market. Samsung and SK Hynix each climbed more than twenty-three percent, reflecting just how sharply sentiment had swung in the chip sector.
What's striking is what didn't move. Despite that historic rebound in semiconductor stocks, Bitcoin barely twitched — up a fraction of a percent over twenty-four hours, with most major cryptocurrencies still lower on the week. The decoupling raises real questions about crypto's role as a risk asset when traditional markets are swinging wildly.
Meanwhile, a serious security failure in the crypto world is demanding attention. A hardware wallet randomness bug quietly turned what were supposed to be impossible-to-guess seed phrases into guessable ones. The result: five hundred ninety-four Bitcoin — roughly thirty-eight million dollars — swept away in just twenty-five minutes. It's a reminder that the weakest link in digital finance is often the math underneath.
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