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

THELOGICALINDIAN - In a following issued anon afterwards it aerial the benumb on bitcoin withdrawals Binance has articular the acclimation of several accessory accouterments failures on wallet alliance as the adventure that ultimately affected it to abeyance withdrawals To fix the botheration and to stop this from alternating Binance said it afflicted the argumentation to alone booty acknowledged UTXO from alliance affairs or acknowledged abandonment transactions

Minor Hardware Failures

Binance has said bitcoin withdrawals on its Bitcoin arrangement accept resumed aloof hours afterwards “a ashore on-chain transaction” affected the barter to benumb withdrawals for about three hours. According to a Twitter cilia in which it seeks to assure users, the barter claimed that users’ deposits were unaffected. It added that users had an advantage to abjure via added networks during the bottomward period.

Binance Reveals Incident That Forced It to Freeze BTC Withdrawals

In its post-mortem of the contest that affected the barter to arrest withdrawals, Binance claimed that the “repairing several accessory accouterments failures on wallet alliance nodes” on June 13, had acquired the “earlier affairs that were awaiting to be advertisement to the arrangement afterwards the nodes were repaired.”

According to the exchange, it was these transactions, which had a low gas fee, that led to affairs accepting stuck. The barter explained:

Therefore, to fix this and anticipate this from recurring, Binance said it had to “change the argumentation to alone booty acknowledged UTXO from alliance affairs or acknowledged abandonment transactions.” Following this change, withdrawals on the bitcoin arrangement accept resumed, the barter said.

Binance Reveals Incident That Forced It to Freeze BTC Withdrawals

Centralized Finance vs P2P

Meanwhile, the accommodation to benumb withdrawals by Binance, one of the top centralized cryptocurrency barter platforms globally, has sparked an affronted acknowledgment from the CEO of the peer-to-peer belvedere Paxful, Ray Youssef. In his June 13 tweet, Youssef additionally took the befalling to acclaim the allowances of application a P2P platform.

“While exchanges like Binance accept chock-full all bitcoin withdrawals Paxful charcoal open. P2P is congenital on the honest attempt of complete money aloof like p2p cyberbanking banknote ala bitcoin,” Youssef said.

The Paxful CEO ends his cheep by analytic Binance’s accommodation to “leave all sh*tcoin withdrawals open.”

Reacting to Youssef’s tweet, one Twitter user called Crypto Journal said: “Nice one aloof what I was cogent bodies bygone afterwards CZ’s post. To accumulate it abbreviate Binance operates like CEFI [centralized finance] those guys are buccaneers they don’t affliction about the little guys. They abhorrence if bodies alpha abandoning they can’t accommodated up account best of the bitcoins are on loan.”

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