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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by tatertots1234 on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:03AM (#31725718)
Sure. many of those speculators will be forced to wait for Binance to resume BTC orders, or use another centralized exchange, or use a bridge to swap BTC to another crypto asset..

Edit: swapping BTC needs a centralized bridge as child commenter notes

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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by renonce on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:06AM (#31725778)
Unfortunately there is no decentralized exchange for BTC. There is no smart contracts on BTC so you have to somehow bridge it to something like Ethereum before you can swap it. And to bridge it you have to rely on some centralized party, such as WBTC. (I know renBTC but it's unclear who their validators are so I'd just assume it's centralized)
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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by Blahah on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:45AM (#31727159)
> Unfortunately there is no decentralized exchange for BTC

Localbitcoins, localmonero... Two of many.

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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by throwaaay103948 on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:56AM (#31726476)
Bisq is a P2P Decentralized exchange for Bitcoin: https://bisq.network
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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by TrapLord_Rhodo on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:10PM (#31727488)
>There is no smart contracts on BTC

Not true, BTC does have smart contracts. They called it op-code and most people don't use it anymore, but me and my friends built a poker game and we play every Thursday.

The original wallet download also had a poker game, but they decided to take it out after a while to ensure btc wasn't labeled as "Gambling"

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