Many of those things are not mentioned in the article at all, so thanks for adding additional information.
No it’s not. It’s unclear why some of the points are relevant to Binance’s health.
Edit: @rippercushions they are factually correct, but there is no context. With context, the points make even less sense.
Edit 2: @rippercushions Sorry then it’s not on your comment, just the parent’s proposal that it stands alone better than the speculation offered in the article.
GP was claiming there are "no indicators" that Binance is fucked, so I provided a list of recent things about Binance that sound pretty fucked to me.
Somehow I doubt that Binance is that on the level.
Coinbase maybe because they are US based and seem to be run by somewhat sane people.
Binance offers margin, with tiers including up to 10x leverage. This is a level you can only typically get to with Treasury securities in the US, which otherwise hearkens back to the 1920s before regulations to avoid this were put in place for very good reason, on securities that are much more stable than cryptocurrencies.
Solvency is dubious at best.
- "A lot of activity" here means people withdrawing on the order of $4 billion from Binance in the last week alone, and that's net (deposits - withdrawals)
- CZ's much-touted Mazars "audit" that was nothing of the sort: liabilities missing entirely, Binance's massive stablecoin holdings missing entirely, only partial coverage of BTC/ETH holdings, sketchy transfers of large amounts into those account before the attestation and out right after, etc. Here's a good summary: https://youtu.be/42VnEndJ9mo
- Numerous regulatory organizations announcing investigations into Binance
- CZ's own leaked private comments about $250k withdrawals of Tether threatening to destabilize crypto as a whole (!?)
- Binance losing an unknown quantity to the FTX collapse, but at the very least a significant fraction of the $500M or so they had in FTT