Binance Reveals Incident That Forced It to Freeze BTC Withdrawals
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....
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