Again, another renowned exchange went offline...

[yazher]

Of course, it's odd. Just about the price to go up, they just went offline without notice. I think this is similar to our local exchange whenever a bull runs occur the site will slow and congested to result in slowing the site at some point. But this time we are not currently experiencing bull run but a slight increase in the price. therefore, there is no problem at all. it's so strange when something like this occurs, the price will stop to raise. which will lead me to think that there is something going on.

[joinfree]

It's quite unfortunate how these exchanges get hacked and people end up losing their funds. I think it's high time we all take into great detail exchanges that we trade on for the safety of our funds. It's best to stay away from newly opened exchanges who promises huge gains on any investment plans they offer their customers.

[canaris1985]

Damn. So what exchanges can I trust? Seriously. I mean, I don't store any assets on them, but which exchanges could you advice (I'm interested only in BTC) that have at least good reputation?

[shata]

It's quite unfortunate how these exchanges get hacked and people end up losing their funds. I think it's high time we all take into great detail exchanges that we trade on for the safety of our funds. It's best to stay away from newly opened exchanges who promises huge gains on any investment plans they offer their customers.

I think you missed the point, it didn't matter with exchanges being hacked nor early introduced market.

Simply because these exchanges I've mentioned are well known market in the network; thus for sure you're already aware of.

If you are the CEO of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world and such thing happens,you will have to resign,because your incompetence is obvious and the owners/shareholders might lose money.

The repeated market maintenance during high buy-on and huge sell-off may spell incompetent market exchanges.

Note that this exchanges were considered pioneer and are very one of the largest market in the network.

So, surge of transaction is not an excuse.

If they will there to protect the market crash then they will be there too to avoid market surge. Therefore, market manipulation.

Damn. So what exchanges can I trust? Seriously. I mean, I don't store any assets on them, but which exchanges could you advice (I'm interested only in BTC) that have at least good reputation?

I'd quote this one for you. Try to research this one:

I have begin to noticed also recently that most crypto exchange are beginning to protect their traders more by giving them tips to reduce their risk.

This is part of the reason why binance delisted that FTX leverage token from their exchange because they discover that traders are losing huge amount of their money to this token when traded.

Binance are trying hard to protect its single investors/traders...

At the end  if there were such rules in the market like "circuit breaker", I think its about time to know and be more aware about our market.

We need to do research of our own...as an investor/trader, ignorance is no longer an excuse.

[FlightyPouch]

We also have a similar local cryptocurrency exchange that holds bitcoin and several altcoin wallet. Unfortunately, when bitcoin price soar, there is always a frequent maintenance on their side which results to having difficulty of bitcoin to altcoin or crypto to fiat exchange and vice versa.

What do you expect from having these type of businesses? We're dealing with crypto and manipulation is not surprising. Leaving only a small amount of crypto on day to day transaction is still the best practice to avoid such kind of fraud.

I don't know why but I think we are using that same local crypto currency since I've been so mad with the local exchange I am using since I've been needing the money to buy some essentials during the quarantine. It is continuous maintenance and it is really like that they are doing it on purpose. They really are a greedy bunch.

[BuNga_cute]

I also realize that, exchanges do that to manipulate prices. And not only large exchanges do that, small exchanges and local exchanges
do the same thing. When the price of bitcoin rises or falls suddenly exchanges going offline or going maintenance. I have experienced
that since 2017, even some wallets do the same thing. Therefore do not store all our coins in exchanges or try to save our coins in several
exchanges.

[cabron]

Probably do not want to buy BTC for higher price so they shut it down so people can't sell for higher price.  Its not just coinbase that did this. But I don't think they are going to shut down though. The lastest news I've heard is that coinbase is providing surveillance tools for the government, its not even sure what this sort of surveillance tool is but its definitely not a good thing for cry[tp users.

[Sadlife]

Of course exchanges wouldn't want to go bankrupt that's why they do those dirty tricks to fool us traders thinking its just a program issue.
But in reality they're just trying to avoid massive liquidation.

One of the best solutions is to get off your Bitcoins in exchanges or to move it to much more trusted and reputable exchanges like Kraken.

[Qcrypto]

If you traded stocks you would know this is not odd. Stock exchanges have a failsafe logic where they disable all Sell Orders if a market drops more than 8% in a day.

Crypto exchanges haven't adopted that yet, so instead they just go offline.

[Janation]

It's a huge loss on the user's end since they can't trade with their crypto during that period and if they can just make a little compensation about it then it's fine I guess. Coins.ph somehow do this and it didn't just happen one time, it happens most of the time, not good hedging of them.

It did not happen to me but it did with my cousin.

He cashed out using Mlhuiller and went there to get it. When he arrived there, coins.ph is at maintenance and he can't get the money unless the maintenance are done. The bad thing about this is that it is still lock down and it is really hard to get a quarantine pass at that time. That maintenance went by for 3 days, I don't know if that is on purpose or just a coincidence.

[Kelvinid]

This kind of exchanger's trick is already happening globally, even in the local exchanger. They come into some reason, system maintenance, upgrades, or whatever it is. I don't know if they are working on it or they just want to fool their traders and in order that they can't sell their coins when the price is high.
Not only it happens to non-reputable exchanges but it is also happening to the top exchanges.
We think about not using our local exchanger but we don't have another option to take that makes us still kept it.

[Pamadar]

It is odd. And the pattern that is somehow established over a certain period of time is more worrisome.

And, worse, this is not just happening on global platforms such as BitMex and Coinbase; this is also happening locally. I cannot tell whether this is also true in other countries but here in mine there is also a similar pattern observed in one of the most popular local wallets.

And Local wallets are also affected meaning this is somewhat global problem in exchange business.

- Maybe at some point are intentional ?

- Maybe this is Normal reaction of the system?

- Normal case because of the Cryptocurrency flows?

what ever the problem is,this must be addressed and take action because it is not Joke if you cannot withdraw when the price are pumping and need to wait for dumping before the exchange went on again.

[20kevin20]

Damn. So what exchanges can I trust? Seriously. I mean, I don't store any assets on them, but which exchanges could you advice (I'm interested only in BTC) that have at least good reputation?

None. None of the centralized. Use decentralized ones - they're harder to get accustomed to, but they're much better and you don't have the possible "doors closed" scenario, be it for maintenance or whatever else.

I agree with @joniboini: just stop using centralized exchanges. We're consciously helping them out by using them and we clearly see there's a correlation between price drops/bumps and their maintenances/closures. As soon as we'll all move to free & decentralized ones, it's going to be much better

[bitbunnny]

Coinbase is a shop and they can close at them moment they want. Bitcoin is not an essential commodity nor Coinbase has total monopoly over bitcoin fiat trading. Whatever maybe the reason for sudden maintenance whenever the price moves sharply, traders if hurt by this, should punish Coinbase by not using them.

The problem isn't primarily that exchange goes offline,   it's about  that happens  when no one expects it. Why don’t they warn traders in advance like shops do when their spots  are full of customers. That would avoid any undesirable speculation on the reasons of the sudden shutdown, and so, beyond the worry, such actions leave nothing behind.

That just shows that many exchanges just don't do their business like they suppose to and they don't respect their clients, simply lack of fair and honest businesses code. And that always leaves some space for rumors and ideas of something fishy.
They should be open and trasparent and announce such activities and not act suddenly and without clear explanation. People should know that they are reliable and legit.

[billykannithi]

This often happens when the fact that the price pump is an agreement between the project, the whale and the exchange. To push the price of a crypto will involve a lot of steps and delays, network congestion, wallet maintenance or even self-control the price to stoploss scanning is what exchanges do often. Therefore, you must pay attention to all your investment actions and always monitor to be able to adjust accordingly