If you think about it, it was actually a positive move to temporarily block withdrawals. This kind of makes the market calm down a little, so that everything doesn't go into panic. In fact, it is a traditional strategy, which even occurs in the traditional stock market, to block negotiations on an asset, so that people do not act on impulse.
It's the exact opposite: by blocking withdrawals, the only option left is selling on that exchange. That leads to panic selling and a huge drop in price. The proper way to prevent panic trading is a
trading halt. Ironically, that's the exact opposite of what Binance did. Makes you wonder....
Probably like you said, they fueled the panic because they didn’t have the coins to make everybody whole. Now binance bought the dip, the price stabilized, they resumed the withdrawals…
That deserves a red tag, no?
It is the xmr holders that paid for this mess.
Since they resumed the withdrawals, they don’t look like total scum bags. What’s a 30% drop in crypto in the end? Right
happens every once in a while
I couldn’t totally understand why they halted the withdrawals at first and that’s why I screamed “scam” and somehow I was still right about it. I thought they had the coins but they didn’t let people withdraw. It seems they didn’t have the coins and that’s equally scammy.
Or maybe we should believe their cold wallet/hot wallet story… if that makes sense.