Oh, look! 🎉 #Binance accidentally sent $1.7B worth of #crypto to Iran, and instead of fessing up, they #fired the #employees who discovered it. 🤡 Clearly, the best way to handle an "oopsie" of epic proportions is to shoot the messenger—bravo, Binance, you've reinvented accountability! 🚀
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/technology/binance-employees-iran-firings.html #Blunder #Accountability #Oopsie #HackerNews #ngated
Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.

The New York Times