Exchanges

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Exchanges

How buying crypto actually works

Buying cryptocurrency is usually buying from a company, then optionally taking the keys. Confusing those two steps is how people think they “own Bitcoin” when they own a balance in an app.EasyCryptoGuides · 14 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Review

Major centralised exchange (category)

★★★★☆ Score 3.5 of 5. 3.5A reasonable on-ramp if you use withdrawals, enable real two-factor authentication, and never store more than you are willing to treat as a balance at a private company. The marketing is louder than the account agreement.EasyCryptoGuides · 4 Aug 2026

Exchanges

An exchange balance is an IOU, not a wallet

A centralised exchange credits you in its ledger. The chain may not know your name. That is convenient until the company pauses, gets hacked, or goes to court. Here is the custody map without a venue ranking.EasyCryptoGuides · 24 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

Security

Coinbase’s contractor breach is an insider story, not a chain failure

In a 14 May 2025 filing, Coinbase said overseas support contractors stole account data and that it would not pay a $20 million ransom. Keys in cold storage were not the headline. Names were.EasyCryptoGuides · 14 May 2025, 21:00 UTC · 2 min read

Security

The Bybit theft was a company wallet. The chain did what signatures do.

Bybit lost a record sum from a wallet its signers controlled. Later attribution pointed at North Korea. A 2026 lawsuit tries to freeze what can still be reached.EasyCryptoGuides · 21 Feb 2025, 18:00 UTC · 2 min read

Regulation

What “regulatory clarity” actually means when you read it in a headline

Policymakers, exchanges, and token issuers all love the word clarity. It rarely means the thing a retail reader hopes: that the hard questions have been retired.EasyCryptoGuides · 30 Dec 2024, 09:00 UTC · 2 min read

Security

DMM Bitcoin’s theft is Japan’s custody lesson, again

On 31 May 2024 DMM Bitcoin reported an unauthorised outflow of 4,502.9 BTC. A company wallet was emptied. Bitcoin’s rules were not.EasyCryptoGuides · 31 May 2024, 06:00 UTC · 1 min read

Regulation

The SEC sued Binance and Coinbase. Enforcement is not a white paper.

Two complaints in two days alleged unregistered exchange, broker, and clearing functions — and, for Coinbase, an unregistered staking programme. A lawsuit is a theory. It is not “crypto is illegal”.EasyCryptoGuides · 6 Jun 2023, 20:00 UTC · 2 min read

Regulation

Hong Kong’s 2023 retail-crypto day was a licence regime

The AMLO trading-platform rules started. Licensed venues may serve retail with suitability and token due diligence. A start date is not a shopping holiday.EasyCryptoGuides · 1 Jun 2023, 01:00 UTC · 1 min read

Markets

Why bitcoin’s weekend move is not a strategy

Bitcoin can lurch while desks are empty. This weekend that lurch had a company behind it. The useful question is still whether anything changed for you — not whether the candle was red.EasyCryptoGuides · 12 Nov 2022, 16:00 UTC · 2 min read

Security

KuCoin’s theft was hot-wallet keys, not a broken chain

Initial headlines said $150 million; later tallies sat near $275–285 million across BTC, ETH and a pile of ERC-20s. An exchange login is still a company wallet.EasyCryptoGuides · 25 Sept 2020, 19:00 UTC · 1 min read

Review

Blockchain.com

★★★☆☆ Score 3.3 of 5. 3.3The explorer is a public lookup tool. The wallet and exchange are company products. Use the name carefully, enable real two-factor authentication, and do not treat a web login as cold storage.EasyCryptoGuides · 23 Apr 2020