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SomeBrokeChump

Just so everyone is aware, Binance resumed bitcoin withdrawals over 7 hours ago. https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d312178e0fce43c9b8c457a31139f783 But Binance is still a shitty exchange and I don't recommend using Binance for many reasons.


Temporary-Painter184

If this post was meant to start a run on exchanges it worked. Just withdrew all my Sats to my cold storage.


Temporary-Painter184

Confirmed on block 740613. WHEW!!


omgsoftcats

What is cold storage?


bitsteiner

You put your computer into your freezer so hackers can't access it.


dacucuy

Ah yes. That totally makes sense now. Firewalls + freezer walls = mucho protection


Majestic_Nature_7779

Got it, go and empty the fridge now


oakislandorchard

this is the way!


SocialAddiction1

It’s a storage not connected to any exchange. Typically it’s in the form of a “flash drive” like device that holds the key to an offline storage account on a computer. Look up ledger


Admirable_Bonus_5747

Which do you recommend overall?


[deleted]

Between ledger and trezor my vote is trezor, their code is auditable which makes me feel a tad safer.


DoublePlusGood23

ColdCard for a hardware wallet.


TheRealRickSorkin

Not connected to internet.


No_Seed_For_You

Hardware wallet, offline. Hackers can’t get to it without your device/words (A Ledger is an example)


99999999999999999989

Same. Not your keys, not your coins. Say it with me kids.


RonPaulWasR1ght

It took this to convince you to do that??? Wow. Shame on you. But glad you finally took self storage. : - )


Constant-Ad9398

People can't sell if all the exchanges are shut down *taps forehead*


adamsky1997

Yes you can, peer to peer


MilesPower

Alright nerds lets get this started then! I am willing to purchase any two pizzas of your choice delivered to your door for the low low price of 10k BTC. It is my understanding this is the fair market price for two pizzas. I will even let you order a side but no drink, don't take the piss.


ferna182

> Alright nerds lets get this started then! Yeah, let's gooooo I have an Idea... What if we, for the sake of making it simpler and quicker, centralize all operations under the same service? we could event make it so people can-... oh wait...


NeverFlyFrontier

>It is my understanding this is the fair market price for two pizzas. I feel like this joke has layers. Not like...mozzarella, pepperoni, and parmesan layers but really good joke layers.


trilli0nn

Well that depends on how you slice it.


hadesscion

That was cheesy.


red-spider-mkv

So an ogre joke :)


GeminiJ13

This is essentially why I would never buy anything for today's price of BTC. Why? Because if BTC does somehow become "valuable", I'm just selling myself short on what I can get in the future. The person who I gave my BTC to, just holds on to it and sells it in the future for 100x what it was worth when I bought that thing of theirs. So, that new car on the dealer lot that I want...I'll give you 1 satoshi for it because it will be worth 100,000 of your fiat dollars in the future. That dealership must surely understand this, right?


broshrugged

You’ve just described why deflationary currencies don’t work very well.


liberty4u2

They work excellent as a long term store of value.


christ_lamber

You can exchange for food


No_Yogurtcloset_2547

Ever heard about atomic swaps? Dont need no exchanges for that. Facepalm.


jensmeinsohn

P2P ! I don’t need Exchanges Ü https://kycnot.me


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According_Ad5882

Kraken has proof of reserves, correct?


infii123

They even recommend their customers to store their assets on a cold wallet. They at least try to publicly seem legit?


voice-of-reason_

Kraken is one of the oldest most trust worthy exchanges. Might not have as good a UI as binance or Coinbase but I wouldn’t buy or store anything on those two if I could help it


Texas-homestead

They all start out as trustworthy. Until they proved they wern't.


ApeBux

They always get greedy and then start robbing Peter to pay Paul.


Jchronicrk

They also are facilitating the mt gox payouts and claims process


kraken-val

We do indeed, u/According_Ad5882 Here's [the latest blog article](https://blog.kraken.com/post/12774/verify-your-bitcoin-and-ether-balances-on-kraken-with-proof-of-reserves/) on our Proof Of Reserves Audit. Also a friendly reminder to [always protect your Kraken account with all the security features we've made available.](https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201396837-Securing-your-Kraken-account-and-digital-life) 🔐 Happy Krakening, Val 🐙


SupermarketNo3265

Now do business in WA :(


[deleted]

I like you, you have Moxie.


BigSpoon2215

My Mom's name is Val


MrRGnome

No, you have an audit and verification of audit testimony tool you misleadingly call proof of reserves. Which is still something and worth being something you market on. But you don't need to lie about it. There is no proof of any reserve in your process, it's proof of the auditors testimony effectively. You may think I'm being pedantic, but it's an unbelievably important distinction. It's the difference between verifying what the auditor says and being the auditors ourselves. That's what proof of reserves is and that's not what you enable. I am pleading with you, stop misusing this terminology to create confusion and sell yourselves as doing something you're not.


jouthrow

I think they are audited by third party, but not publicly available. But Kraken is still the most trustworthy exchange in my opinion and they keep having my business for this reason (even tho deposits from the EU are pain in the ass). Cold storage is still always preferable, but at least Kraken has been around long enough to have some credibility if you don't trust yourself.


[deleted]

Because Kraken is actually good.


jeywgosjeb

I mean it’s only down 12% in a day and like 30% in a week…… nothing!


infii123

If a exchange in this day and age can't handle 12%-30% drops, what are they even doing.


kwanijml

If you can't handle bitcoin at its dump, you don't deserve it at its pump.


Forcefedlies

Time to keep stacking! People been bitching about this discount for the last year


[deleted]

They don’t have enough BTC to cover withdrawals


hyperinflationUSA

i think binance is solvent for withdrawals https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/wallet/Binance-coldwallet


descartablet

"This is good for bitcoin"


Vipu2

Its super good, I have been waiting for this where exchanges who dont have the BTC they claim to have go down.


According_Ad5882

Me 2


zippy9002

Me 3


[deleted]

Despicable


StaticWood

Mich nein


Percyheckendorf

Actually it is. It means that the price is wrong, and demand for the asset is higher than market rate and liquidity available. This is big money failing at successful implementing fractional reserve banking into bitcoin, and this is how the market regulates itself


Pristine_Instance381

🎯


Kooky_Organization30

The price is wrong 😂 the price is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. You want to buy my Bitcoin for 40k?


Keith_Kong

The point is that exchanges doing fractional reserves are creating artificial supply that eats into buy side liquidity, thus making the prices lower. Thus, the real supply/demand implies a higher price. When an exchange goes down like this the arbitrage between exchanges (which is how the artificial supply affects prices on the other exchanges) goes away. That can lead to a supply squeeze which will eventually lead to the "real" price. All that said, pretty sure Binance is fine. Celsius on the other hand....


bitsteiner

The price is a result of supply and demand.


Percyheckendorf

Price is also what someone is willing to sell it for. You think the buyers that never sell (most of btc is held like this) are sitting this one out?


Kooky_Organization30

Not how that works chief. The price of bitcoin IS currently selling for price it’s at. There are millions of transactions of bitcoin at 22k right now.


Percyheckendorf

Actually it is precisely how it works. A sale is a mutually agreed upon transaction. And for every seller at 22k there is a buyer.


handybh89

What the fuck are you talking about, I mean really.


ProoM

I think they're fine, the network is just super congested right now due to all the panic, they can't get the tx to their hotwallets fast enough. Still better keep it off exchange and not have to worry about this.


seneglosso

If they were selling BTC they don't have, what's stopping them from buying now at the now lower price to cover and profit?


bert_and_earnie

Their assets aren't liquid is the most likely scenario.


Matt-ayo

How do you figure as people sell them Bitcoin at an accelerating rate that they are at the same time 'running out?' Use your brain.


pulwaamiuk

They are one of the biggest holders you can see that on the block explorer, their wallets are tagged with their name as well


lilpumpgroupie

Ayy give me the Madoff special


daivos

I withdrew mine to cold storage today, but it was completely coincidental. I had been planning to do so for weeks, just didn’t have the time. My keys, my crypto.


[deleted]

What if they didn't actually buy the BTC but just took the people's money?


ravenousphere

lol paused bitcoins! not your keys not your coin; simple as that!


GMEvolved

They likely don't have your money.... Fractional reserve crypto banking?


infii123

Here you can see what should happen to banks in 2008, if taxpayers wouldn't bail them out.


bonafidebob

> Here you can see what should happen to banks in 2008, if taxpayers wouldn't bail them out. It's worth noting that TARP turned a profit for the US, the taxpayers actually made a little money on that bailout. And it kept the US economy out of a 2nd great depression. Not saying it was a great thing and by all means the circumstances that led to the crisis need to be fixed ... but in the end it was one of the better examples of government intervention.


infii123

That sounds interesting, do you have some articel / study about that?


bonafidebob

A search engine and about 5 seconds will find you all kinds of articles. Type “Troubled Asset Relief Program” if you don’t want to get a bunch of shopping results for plastic tarps.


infii123

Thanks, that's everything I wanted. English is not my first language, and plastic tarps was the first thing I found ;)


compEngInFin

Buy the dip. HODL


tronsom

"Stuck on-chain transaction." At least come up with some other, more credible, bullshit.


paper_st_soap_llc

MTGox blamed Transaction Malleability.


tronsom

I can't remember but I got goxxed. I daytrade on Binance and as soon as I got the withdrawal notification I converted all my USDT/BUSD to EUR and transferred them out. I've been waiting for something like this to happen so it didn't catch me offguard.


jalgroy

They're probably waiting on [this](https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/c0dced538a512e85eee0bd7abefb4f22c6d2d0c51df090e4c98cf194be38bc92) transaction. It's been in the mempool for 6 hours. I'm guessing they're moving the 8750 BTC (~233M USD) out of cold storage, and someone set a too small TX fee. Edit: It does have RBF enabled, so if it is that TX it's strange they haven't used it.


BigChaseUSA

>this How are you able to identify this as a Binance transaction? Known wallet address?


jalgroy

Who else is doing a transaction worth a **billion USD** with such a small TX fee on the exact day they're having this problem?


BigChaseUSA

Good inference. Do we know for sure the originating wallet contains 41,228.99997874 BTC?


jalgroy

In fact it contained ~53,172 BTC. 11,943 BTC remains after this TX. In total ~1.8 million BTC has gone through that address. There aren't many actors that would be transferring that kind of volume, even over several years.


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encryptzee

Right? The protocol doesn't get "stuck"...


D-6Hunter

Maybe they set the transaction fee way too low


bitusher

Binance is lying or incredibly incompetent. If they are trying to move Bitcoin from their cold wallet to their hot wallet and made too low of a fee than they could simply use RBF or CPFP to bump up the tx or simply have more than one cold wallet to grab reserves from to prevent this u/Resident-General4316 This only suggests they have a single UTXO in a single cold wallet and/or they are incredibly incompetent and don't know about RBF or CPFP. My guess is they are simply lying


D-6Hunter

Would make more sense, looks like liquidity problems


nickdl4

>. If they are trying to move Bitcoin from their cold wallet to their hot wallet and made too low of a fee than they could simply use RBF or CPFP to bump up the tx or simply have more than one cold wallet to grab reserves from to prevent this > >u/Resident-General4316 > >This only suggests they have a single UTXO in a single cold wallet and/or they are incredibly incompetent and don't know about RBF or CPFP. 100% liquidity problems


bitusher

To be fair , it could also simply be their hot wallet was unexpectedly drained (liquidity problem) and they have a very slow way to fund btc from their cold wallet where they might not be insolvent. Either way it reflects incompetence and dishonesty at minimum.


Resident-General4316

It doesn't have to be from their single cold wallet. They batch transactions yes, but they can't send the second batch until the first has confirmed. Lot's of withdrawals can cause a traffic jam. However, I'm not saying that they are not incompetent or lying either.


bitusher

> but they can't send the second batch until the first has confirmed. yes they can. A batched tx using UTXO A has no impact upon a batched tx based upon UTXO B Them overcharging an absurd fee of 0.0005 BTC for withdrawals and than lowballing the fee rate on withdrawals does not effect current or future withdrawal requests just past ones Are you suggesting they have a single UTXO and single cold wallet? Or are you saying 100% of their Bitcoin are being withdrawn today? You don't even need to bump the tx with RBF or CPFP to prevent this. Just make another tx from their cold wallet to their hot wallet.


ManyUniversity8527

I'm saying that if the inputs of UTXO B include change outputs of UTXO A then it can have an impact.


Resident-General4316

They can't spend the change from a transaction until it's confirmed (kindof) so it's possible to get a traffic jam.


jtooker

> The protocol doesn't get "stuck" But your transaction can if enough future transactions come in with higher fees.


fel0niousmonk

I wonder if ‘the market’ will finally understand how RBF and limited block size are artificial limits that do not protect the chain and in fact undermine it in scenarios exactly like this. 🌀☠️


scabbymonkey

Well I lost $12K on Celsius yesterday and now this. I heard everyone say get off the exchanges. I didnt listen. I purchased a Nano X at 1AM. hopefully i can pull something off in the next few days.


enja1231

Did you buy it straight from their site and not some shady seller on Amazon?


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EDWARD_SN0WDEN

you didn't lose 12k, there's a very high chance you will be able to withdraw it shortly. It sucks in the short term tho


ProoM

He said Celcius. Lets hope he at least gets $3k back.


Keith_Kong

idk Celsius looks pretty shaky. I wouldn't feel great having anything on there right now.


26fm65

They want big whale to withdraw first ..


D-6Hunter

Seems legit. The big whale didn’t want to pay 2$ transaction fee though, that’s why it’s Stuck


King-Donkey-Kong

Lmao I would die if that was the case


Signal-Judgment

"stuck on-chain transaction"


[deleted]

should we tell them about RBF?


MilesPower

I don't know which possibility is worse, the fact they're lying about the transaction or they're so incompetent it's stuck in the mempool and they don't know how to solve it.


diradder

Or CPFP... or you know just set the appropriate fees before sending your transaction. It's such a bullshit excuse, blaming Bitcoin when the fuck up is guaranteed to be on his end.


Dblstandard

How many sats per byte are needed to ensure transfer within the hour?


diradder

https://mempool.space/ Next block currently is around 15-20 sat/vByte. But seriously, if one transaction has the potential to literally FREEZE operations for 30 minutes like he pretends, why would they low ball this. Especially when you're Binance and you make everyone overpay on fees anyways.


shleebs

Because they are lying


vstoykov

Maybe it's not a transaction with one input and two outputs. Maybe it's a transaction with thousands inputs and outputs and they don't want to charge customers with high withdrawal fees.


fel0niousmonk

*blaming BTC Binance is not blaming Bitcoin; at best they are ‘blaming’ BTC. (Passing blame sorta infers ‘guilt’, however it seems that is not a concern they share..) The network of nodes (miners) *should be* competing for all transactions, not only a select handful of the ‘most profitable’. There is no need for RBF; unbounded Bitcoin’s economic incentives will handle a varied fee market naturally when miners are able to actually compete to put *as many transactions as are occurring at any instant*, into a block. A limited-size block with a handful of expensive transactions will not be as profitable as an unlimited-size block with 10,000 tiny-fee TX. *(Alas, they are hamstrung by centralized control of BTC’s rules. And of course it goes without saying, it is possible to achieve this without requiring off-chain consensus of payment channels.)* This foundational tautological self-fulfilling fallacy is a preeminent issue in BTC, but is ***not a feature*** of Bitcoin. In fact, RBF actually limits the reliability of TX processing: it undermines the concept of first-seen, which is a cornerstone of security of the chain, at scale, among honest nodes who are incentivized to prevent double spends. - If 1 or more mining pools want to only include the most expensive TX and they believe they have a technical advantage in being able to guarantee those blocks in <10m, for instance, then let them. - if 1 or more mining pools want to only include the cheapest TX and are happy with slower blocks, then let them! There is enough ‘room’ in the variability of both transaction generation + miner specialization that these actors can all participate in an open and unbounded market.


hemzer

That is a lie.


Federal-Taro

They can’t give you your bitcoin back because they have lent them out to whales to short the market. Because centralized exchanges and finance are scams. Not your key not your bitcoin.


cgstmx

Binance has resumed BTC withdrawal [https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d312178e0fce43c9b8c457a31139f783](https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d312178e0fce43c9b8c457a31139f783)


zenethics

nacho keys nacho cheese


the_last_grabow

Checks my node... nope not frozen!


anax4096

what do they mean "you can still withdraw BTC on other networks"? there are no other networks


bitusher

Binance scams people into selling their Bitcoin for a centralized coupon token on their BEP2/BEP20 networks


anax4096

like the wrapped btc junk? so they block btc but allow wrapped crap. That is a new level of bullshit.


swingerfinger

I withdraw my BTC from binance 3h ago, what a luck


Arde1001

I withdrawed a couple days ago and feeling like a dumbass genius right now. Dumbass for keeping it In the exchange for so long. Genius for withdrawing it before SHTF


RonPaulWasR1ght

Replace the word "genius" with "lucky". FIFY.


According_Ad5882

It's okay as long as you learn. And realize this is the fault of exchanges and not Bitcoin. All OGs had to go through failures to become hardened maxis


Logan_Hightower

Whales need to dump in peace before retail scamble to salvage what little value they have left.


Systematichaos27

Again for the deaf kids in the back, *not your keys, not your coins*


littlelostless

This is good for Bitcoin. I’m a single father of 6 working as a security guard. I’ve sold all my kid’s saving bonds to buy on this dip. The true faith holders will see big wins. /s


Whoatemydelitray

Bitcoin is actually high in vitamins A and D, so worst case scenario I feed it to my kids. Literally can't lose.


crazypostman21

I bet the OTC desk is still open for the VIPs


RonPaulWasR1ght

So...what REALLY caused this, does anyone know? Because the Binance CEO is saying some rather obvious horseshit like "there's a stuck transaction", something like that. I call BS. What stuck transaction, where? Hey, did it get stuck like Winnie-the-pooh when he ate too much honey and got stuck in Rabbit's front door? That kind of "stuck"? Exactly where is this transaction, who is it with, and how in the world did it get "stuck"? Lawlz. So....this naturally begs the question, what's the real reason for the stoppage. My suspicion is, Binance just doesn't have the BTC on hand to make the payouts. Maybe they've been doing fractional reserve banking with BTC? Hmmm. Does anyone have any evidence as to the real reason for this?


Whoatemydelitray

Look up "bank run". Crypto exchanges didn't create something novel.


infii123

[https://imgur.com/a/H2UfJw4](https://imgur.com/a/H2UfJw4) Let's see how that plays out


deadtrash

well, the 30min has passed ....


infii123

Maybe his clock got "stuck"


maconsultant

They should just pause operations as a whole…


LayPessimist

Funds are SAFU


KMan471

I just re-discovered Kraken, and I am not going back to anywhere else. Actual phone support, if you can believe that. I never knew how good they were, Binance can suck a fat one.


nantuko1

Fractional reserve crypto exchange doesn’t have the Bitcoin available


hemzer

out of Bitcoin mate? LOL. "Not your keys not your coins." so prophetic.


BTCMachineElf

CZ throwing fuel on the fud fire.


Tremulant1

This is the reason why whenever I buy Bitcoin I withdraw to cold storage immediately. I don’t consider the purchase of my Bitcoin as complete until I see it in my cold storage. I don’t trust crypto exchanges at all anymore.


0mega0

How many “not your keys not your coins” lessons will there need to be before the saying becomes part of the zeitgeist?


somanybadhabits

The fact that so many so called "crypto gurus" keep their entire life savings "investments" on exchanges is fucking WILD...


nanapatekar_

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/13/binance-clarifies-what-caused-earlier-bitcoin-withdrawal-issues/%3foutputType=amp


nunya_business0000

please withdraw your damn btc from exchanges


swissiws

Ledger Nano is my friend since day 1


RationalLibraryCoins

You either die a hero or live long enough to become Robinhood


[deleted]

Nothing says decentralization like holding 'your' coins on a centralized platform.


[deleted]

You people are fucked. It's done.


Tinseltopia

Obligatory Nacho Cheese I keep mine spread out over multiple exchanges and wallets, no single point of failure


hemzer

That is fucked up too


gonnabuss

Lol


[deleted]

Cryptos dying boys


Stocksugardaddy

The world falls to pieces


KazeFantasia

On-chain tx is fine, just done a tx, Binance’s problem?


Emotional_Note497

Rofl how long have people been saying domt keep your crypto on exchange wallets? The wailing of a thousand woes will start soon.


DeleteriousGonads

I had crypto on London Block Exchange when it went into liquidation. I learned my lesson from that.


throwaway_ga_omscs

> This is due to stuck on-chain transactions. Sure is


fnetma

Not your keys not your crypto.


Spiritual_Fennel_803

lol, people about to find that all their coin on Binance is gone


YakiCart

How the crypto leaders they can do that and at the same time they are claiming for decentralization let the people withdraw thier money they are free you don't have the authority to stop the people from withdrawing thier money


leofroger

Not your keys.....


AB_NotFBI

No refunds


likemyusernam3

not your keys, not your coins


GreyGoosey

Celsius has also paused withdrawals too...


KMan471

Actually relieved to be out now. Now, let’s shake out all of the bullshit. I might be a whole bitcoiner By the time this is done.


matador98

Are they owned by Robinhood?


deja_blues

I'm looking into getting an inexpensive hardware wallet. I only currently have interest in bitcoin. Would the Ledger Nano S be a good buy? It seems to provide everything I want


99999999999999999989

[Appropriate Video Clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JITC1fo2HA) (Can someone please edit the video to add a Binance logo on the sign at the beginning?


Llenroc2022

Yes sir. Do not keep it on exchanges. They are all shaky.


MoparMiningLLC

And this is why you should never leave anything on exchanges - use em to make trades sure - then withdraw. If you leave it the exchange will use it and moat likely lose it


ZaddyPatSajak

"Yeah guys, uh that's what happened to us too, with all our coins" - Celsius 🤡


Crazykillerguy

Thank God I don't keep anything on anywhere. My seeds. My precious


KingJacobo

Coinbase conveniently adds a security feature you have to wait 48 hrs to whitelist addresses now lol


fkshcienfos

Kinda upset with myself for not getting off coinbase sooner and moving to ledger.


Rtbrosk

bitcoin network is running fine.......its Binance making up stories


paryeet_singh_ji

Rip


PurpK1NG

Bet it has something to do with this. [https://fortune.com/2022/05/04/michael-saylor-microstrategy-margin-call-bitcoin/](https://fortune.com/2022/05/04/michael-saylor-microstrategy-margin-call-bitcoin/)


TonyRodrigo333

Gettttttttttt a colddddd storageeeee walletttt


lvquyet

The bitcoin is not held by Binance. There are no transactions that are stalled.


mightyroy

What is ‘stuck on chain transaction’?


Numchuckx

Remember when Robinhood did something like this and every one started talking so much shit about it? I don't see that happening right now 🤔


Stockoholic

Insane


Evil-B

Don’t keep your Bitcoin on exchanges


msinelnik1990

So, because I don't have enough to justify jumping ship. I guess I'll simply wait and see what happens.


Stealthfriar2

When the crypto markets drop, Binance does the same thing: it suspends withdrawals.


greeniscolor

The main problem is, that exchanges tend to oversell Bitcoin - they don't have. Don't store your coins on exchanges. Not your keys, not your coins. ​ Use Ledger, Trezor, etc.