Binance paused its Bitcoin transactions on Monday for more than three hours over technical issues
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Binance, one of the world’s premier cryptocurrency exchanges, paused its Bitcoin withdrawals this Monday because of a ‘stuck on-chain transaction’.
The crypto exchange platform resumed withdrawals after 11:30 am EST (9:00 pm, IST), which was some three and a half hours after the CEO of Binance, CZ, Changpeng Zhao, tweeted that the issue would be fixed in around 30 minutes. Shortly after, he followed up, saying that the fix would take “a bit longer” than the initial estimate.
Binance stated it was “still working to process the pending Bitcoin (BTC) network withdrawals” over the next hours. The pending withdrawals were rejected during that period. Thus, Binance advised the customers to resubmit their orders once the issue was fixed.
Binance also advised its users to use other networks to withdraw their Bitcoin, including their own BNB network and Ethereum, since those blockchains did not face any such issue and were functional. According to some experts, integrating Bitcoin’s Lightning Network would have helped avoid the issue. Despite its global reach and size, Binance lags behind other crypto exchanges on the Lightning Network integration.