What is the story behind Binance’s temporarily locked withdrawals?
On Saturday, osmosis was trading around $0.80 when a massive green candle wick hit $12, representing a more than 1200% gain in just minutes.
WHY Binance temporarily locked withdrawals?
11 December Binance Exchange & CZ Respond
“Our team is investigating and taking appropriate actions in regards to the suspicious accounts.” said in tweet
We are aware of the abnormal price movements for certain trading pairs on #Binance, involving assets such as $SUN, $ARDR, $OSMO, $FUN and $GLM.
Our team is investigating and taking appropriate actions in regards to the suspicious accounts.
— Binance (@binance) December 11, 2022
Also told, “This activity does not appear to be due to compromised accounts or stolen API keys; funds are SAFU.” In the end, we will update more on this thread.
This activity does not appear to be due to compromised accounts or stolen API keys; funds are SAFU.
We will update this thread should there be any new information.
— Binance (@binance) December 11, 2022
Then CEO Binance updated this thread and told us that based on our investigation, “hackers don’t deposit” any funds; this appears to be just market behavior; whales deposit funds and buy those coins, and then other people followed them. “Can’t see linkage between the accounts.”
Based on our investigations so far, this appears to be just market behavior. One guy deposited funds and started buying. (Hackers don’t deposit). Other guys followed. Can’t see linkage between the accounts. 1/3 https://t.co/QlB1VnlHVs
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) December 11, 2022
“We temporarily locked withdrawals on some of the profiting accounts, which caused a lot of complaints on social media, all from different countries,” said CZ
The question is that is just a market behavior so why this exchange temporarily looked withdrawals?
In the reply of a Twitter user “Sometimes, mass psychology works in strange ways. If a lot of people follow a small price increase, it could mean there is demand.” said CZ
That’s a point CZ is this is a free market we can’t do anything “We don’t know. (Not financial advice). We just see orders coming through.” said CZ
Sometimes, mass psychology works in strange ways. If a lot of people follow a small price increase, it could mean there is demand. We don’t know. (Not financial advice). We just see orders coming through.
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) December 11, 2022
Binance lifted temporarily locked withdrawals
The suspended account’s owner fought with CZ on Twitter; Crypto Avanza translated the tweet using Twitter’s auto-translation feature.
“I’m the same as you, I provided the proof of ok funds, but they still don’t recognize it, so I’m speechless. During the cex fud, I deliberately transferred funds from exchanges such as bybit to Binance, but it was closed.” account owner which suspends by Binance
“In addition, the experience of communicating with sisi this time is that internal transfers between Binance accounts are not likely to trigger risk control, and transfers between real-name accounts on the CEX exchange are easy to solve even if risk control is triggered. The slightly troublesome thing is the wallet address on the chain and the exchange address. For transfer, if there is a problem with the u of the wallet on the chain, it will be troublesome. Everyone pay attention in the future. Playing on someone else’s table means following other people’s rules.” said by account’s owner
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Wrapping Up
In the previous Axie Infinity, we see exactly a massive pump in just minutes on Binance, AXS suddenly surge more than 200% then CarlosOMFG a Twitter handle mentioned CZ Binance and Binance Exchange he said “Anyone wondering why #AXS is pumping. Someone somehow bought a million dollars worth on my @cz_binance @binance account.”
Then CZ blamed this as an API failure, not Binance Exchange.
I don’t trust centralized Exchanges to keep your fund safe in cold storage wallet that’s it.
