Exchange record
Livecoin
Cryptocurrency exchange publicly treated as dead after a late-December 2020 hack crisis, with later formal closure announced in January 2021.
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Key facts
Launch date
2013-01-01
Death date
2020-12-27
Years
2013–2020
Origin
Seychelles
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-04-20
URL handling
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URL status
Unknown
Original URL
https://livecoin.net/
Archived URL
Summary
Cryptocurrency exchange publicly treated as dead after a late-December 2020 hack crisis, with later formal closure announced in January 2021.
Timeline
Livecoin reported a major platform attack
2020-12-24hackcritical
Public reporting stated that Livecoin lost control over parts of its infrastructure during a late-December 2020 attack and the platform became unsafe to use.
Livecoin was moved to dead-side handling
2020-12-27shutdown_effectivecritical
Public exchange-status sources marked Livecoin as dead on 2020-12-27 after the hacker attack, before the later formal closure notice.
Operations ceased
2021-01-18shutdown_effectivecritical
Livecoin ceased operations after the crisis that ultimately ended the platform.
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Record note
HEI uses the 2020-12-27 public dead-side marker from Cryptowisser rather than the later 2021-01-18 formal closure announcement. Death reason is mapped to hack because public reporting and the later closure announcement both tied the shutdown to the December 2020 attack. Public sources disagree on origin and establishment details; HEI retains Seychelles from the exchange review and 2013-01-01 as a conservative launch marker from exchange-statistics coverage.
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