Imagine checking your crypto portfolio and seeing Bitcoin priced at two cents. Not two thousand dollars. Not twenty thousand. Two pennies. That’s what Revolut users experienced on May 8 when a pricing glitch turned the platform’s asset displays into something resembling a yard sale.

The European neobank, which serves over 70 million users globally, confirmed the issue stemmed from a third-party pricing data provider. Bitcoin wasn’t the only casualty: Ethereum, Solana, and XRP all displayed dramatically incorrect values before the company scrambled to fix the problem.

What actually happened

The glitch surfaced at approximately 23:45 UTC on May 8. Bitcoin, which was trading near $79,000 on major exchanges at the…