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The Binance exchange has taken to Twitter to spread the word about unscheduled maintenance without stating how long it will take.
Notice of Temporary System Maintenancehttps://t.co/poViDlYnWv pic.twitter.com/b2oLowHDpY
— Binance (@binance) February 19, 2020
Binance undergoes urgent maintenance
The announcement from the site of the exchange says that the platform is conducting a temporary system maintenance. All operations, including deposits, withdrawals and all sorts of trading, have been suspended together with asset transfers between all types of accounts.
However, trading on Binance Futures remains operational despite the situation. The company promises to do its best to resume trading as soon as possible.
Funds are SAFU, CZ tweets.
Unscheduled system maintenance. Trading paused. Working on it.
— CZ Binance 🔶🔶🔶 (@cz_binance) February 19, 2020
Community’s not happy
Judging by the responses in the comment thread, the community is far from happy about or tolerant of the situation.
Some are reporting that they have trading orders open. Others are accusing Binance of being unprofessional for not estimating the time the maintenance will take.
Analyst Michael van de Poppe seems to be harboring a grudge against Binance – previously he criticized the exchange for adding new pairs for leverage trading while the functionality of the site left a lot to be improved.
Now, he is again bashing Binance and asking CZ to provide an investigation report about the reasons for the uphold later on.
Unbelievable.
— Crypto Michaël (@CryptoMichNL) February 19, 2020
It's getting a daily problem on @binance nowadays.
But still, we keep on adding new leveraged pairs.
The priority is seemingly at letting you lose your money as fast as you can.
Can we expect investigation report 2 in a few days?
— Crypto Michaël (@CryptoMichNL) February 19, 2020