I was wondering if there could still be any safe centralised exchange in the blockchain industry. Of lately lots have been unveiling itself and centralisedexchanges are at the end of it all. Does it mean that these centralised exchanges that are in existence lacks the capability to safeguard assets and funds after attracting investors and traders to their platforms for engagement and activities?
There is no hope for a completely secure exchange, because the concept of exchange is not ours in control, moreover a centralized exchange does not have the security keys in our possession, thus creating the possibility of hacking and fraud. Exchanges have security standards, protecting the assets and funds they develop, but often crimes occur because of opportunity, so the bad guys will continue to take advantage of this if they have the chance.
Binance and Coinbase can still be trusted as exchanges that have good security standards, but that doesn't mean they are safe depositories of assets.
How do you explain these things to the people whom have entrusted their funds and assets to you for safe keeping hoping that what they gave to you is under safe care only to wake up to a sad news of their assets being stolen by hackers. How do you explain all these.
The solution that can be done is to store the funds and assets that they entrust to your personal wallet, so that you can fully control these assets and have standard security. In addition, you only need to trade under certain conditions, as I believe you have a standard of identifying the market before trading, so that their assets and funds are not left on any exchange, should any exchange run into trouble.
At first identifying the problem is a basic course for rendering solutions. If these problems are not identified immediately by the exchanges for quick remedy then who's to be blamed for it. Do they really do constant check on their service to know their lapses, if they do, do they identify it immediately with utmost attention? Do they do a constant check and evaluation on their staff and mechanisms.
Exchanges that have a good reputation will always carry out maintenance or repairs when there are problems in the travel process, because there will be an evaluation of every problem that arises so that the exchange still has a trust value, Binance and Coinbase do that when they experience problems and have quick options to fix, so the level of confidence in the two exchanges remains credible.
With all these said, what are your opinions on this subject matter as I feel this needs to be looked into for possible measures to be taken for so as to further prevent or minimise the rate at which exchanges get hacked or being careless with investors and traders funds.
The most important thing is to have qualifications in maintaining the funds and assets that we have, there is nothing wrong with trusting the exchange because we need it. But in terms of security no single exchange can guarantee, because we never know how they will handle problems when they arise, whether they come from workers or from outsiders trying to destroy the exchange.
It is better to store assets and funds only in a personal wallet, because we can fully control security matters.