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Re:Binance Halts Deposits and Withdrawals for Customers in t... by latchkey on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:32PM (#35155176)
Not sure I understand. WalletA has $300m BUSD and WalletB has $420m BTC. Both wallets are 'owned' by Binance. This is lower than the $1b funding on Jan 29th, 2022, but it is still a significant amount of "real" (if you believe crypto has value) funds. This is just an insurance fund that we are talking about here.

I think you're referring to the rest of Binance proof-of-reserves, which are here. Note, I fully realize this isn't perfect.

https://www.binance.com/en/proof-of-reserves

There is also some interesting compliance stuff going on in Ceffu.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/ceffu-formerly-bin...

https://www.ceffu.com/blog/ceffus-core-solution-achieves-soc...

https://www.ceffu.com/blog/ceffu-obtains-cold-storage-insura...

Re:Binance Halts Deposits and Withdrawals for Customers in t... by codetrotter on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:39PM (#35156430)
I think what they mean is, how do we know that the money in these wallets correspond to 10% of all trading fees at Binance?
Re:Binance Halts Deposits and Withdrawals for Customers in t... by latchkey on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:58PM (#35157465)
I see, thanks for the correct clarification.

I believe that the OP was incorrect in their statement. It was originally allocated with 10%, not stated to be maintained at 10%.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-tops-up-safu-fund-at-...

"Binance’s SAFU began in 2018 by allocating 10% of the trading fee into a fund that is solely dedicated to backing up user holdings in the case of an incident. In February of this year, the fund hit $1 billion for the first time."

Re:Binance Halts Deposits and Withdrawals for Customers in t... by anonymouskimmer on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @12:13PM (#35170558)
And another question is how do we know those wallets were funded with fees? We need to trust the accuracy of the proof of assets versus liabilities.