A reminder to withdraw your #Dogecoin from crypto exchanges, shibes - a good way to end the year.
Take the time to learn to use a non-custodial wallet, make tests with small amounts, create backups, then withdraw.
Your crypto is not safe on any exchange.
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What we saw happening during the past year is just a confirmation of what we already knew.
Remember, #Dogecoin: exchanges are businesses, and they are not bound to act in your best interests.
Their focus: attract as many customers and hold onto their liquidity.
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Many of us wrote dozens of threads warning users against holding their crypto on exchanges like Voyager, FTX, Gemini, Binance, Coinbase - these threads were never that popular, and many users of these exchanges acted as staunch defenders of their platform choice.
3/n
The business model of all exchanges involves obscurity - lack of transparency is perfectly intentional.
It has allowed them to thrive and hide the risk their customers are exposed to. Sometimes risk is hidden, other times written in terms of services nobody reads.
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Remember #Dogecoin. You are a gateway to crypto for many.
If crypto wants to survive, everybody advocating for it will need to fight this tendency for obscurity and warn newbies about it.
Always fight for transparency, always ask questions, help highlighting risk.
5/5
Notes:
- Beautiful art opening this thread by the fabulous @italia_dogecoin (
The aim of real FUD spread around #Dogecoin throughout the year (it has no devs; it has no future; it must be capped; a whale holds 30% of the supply) is exactly aimed at killing sentiment and making people sell and lose interest, because they think there is no hope.
Alongside FUD, institutional investors and speculators driving the price, marketing ploys by exchanges pushing towards other tokens, and in general any attempt to gain control of the liquidity are aimed at manipulating the sentiment and interest of the public. #Doge
We talked a lot about why holding on ANY exchange should not be done.
The recent wallet incident anyhow, also through the official press release released by #Binance, points at the fact their infrastructure was obsolete and/or not maintained with the needed care. #DOGE
The first hint is that they had been using Dogecoin Core 1.14.0, a version released in 2019 (2 years and a half ago). This is prehistoric by cryptocurrency standards.
The second hint is that they seem to have ignored recommendations provided to them by the #Dogecoin devs.
You can also check the thread below by Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, explaining how #Litecoin/#Dogecoin "merged" mining works and benefits both blockchains.
As per their official press release, because of mishandling of the upgrade of their wallets, in November, @binance sent out duplicates of old transactions from 2019 to 1634 users.
These accounts have been marked as in "arrears" and asked to return the extra $Doge.
The changes introduced in Dogecoin 1.14.4-1.14.5 caused those old transactions to become unstuck and being sent over few minutes to 1600+ users, to wallet addresses many of those have no longer access to.
As a response, Binance shut everything down at once. For 3+ weeks.
The gravity of remarks like that one (on which he then doubled down) is that anybody into crypto for more than a few months knew that "whale" was an exchange. The patterns were unmistakable.
The fact the CEO of an exchange pushed this rhetoric is disquieting and manipulative.