Crypto Reacts: Binance Pauses BTC Withdrawals, Is CZ Lying?
It has been a heated start of the week for the crypto community. Crypto exchange Binance temporarily suspended withdrawals on the Bitcoin network. This happened the same day as Celsius halted all withdrawals, raising liquidity concerns. Naturally, many users started to worry about Binance as well. Disclaimer: The following op-ed represents the views of the […]
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Another Crypto Platform Freezes Operations Citing Recent Market Conditions
Another crypto exchange and lending platform, called Hodlnaut,....
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In a post-mortem issued shortly after it lifted the freeze on bitcoin withdrawals, Binance has identified the “repairing of several minor hardware failures on wallet consolidation” as the incident that ultimately forced it to pause withdrawals. To fix the problem and to stop this from recurring, Binance said it changed the logic “to only take successful UTXO from consolidation transactions or successful withdrawal transactions.”
Minor Hardware Failures
Binance has said bitcoin withdrawals on its Bitcoin network have resumed just hours after “a....