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RegulationBinance France says accounts close on 31 December. That entity is not Binance.com.
An email to Binance France customers, reported on 6 November, says those accounts close from 31 December 2026. From 29 November an account that still holds assets pays a fee. Deposits are already blocked. Withdrawals still work.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
SecurityGopax halted trading after an email claiming a hack. A freeze is not a confirmed theft.
Gopax was still halted on Monday 9 November. News1 says the company will not publish a restart time, and that user assets have been moved to cold wallets. No loss is confirmed.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
SecurityMercado Bitcoin says customers will not lose. The hot wallet did.
Mercado Bitcoin’s site is open for looking. Crypto quantities on screen are the 2 November positions. Withdrawals, deposits, and trading are still off. The FAQ no longer states the dollar total.EasyCryptoGuides · · 7 min read
SecurityBinance puts the hot-wallet loss near $6.3 billion. Covering it is a company promise.
Binance reopened HYPE and APT withdrawals on 8 November, and Alpha withdrawals on four networks on 9 November. INJ, PLASMA, NEAR, and LTC were not in that post. The 98% figure did not move.EasyCryptoGuides · · 19 min readSecurityCoinDCX says old deposit addresses were still taking money. A retired address is still an exchange.
On 22 October 2026 CoinDCX said a process for sweeping deposits off retired addresses had failed. The exchange says it credited the users and that current wallets were not compromised. It has not confirmed the $16 million figure.EasyCryptoGuides · · 4 min read
ExchangesWhat is a perpetual contract?
A perpetual future tracks a coin’s price and never comes due. You do not hold the coin. You hold a contract with a venue that can liquidate the margin. The CFTC’s October letters are about who may list that shape. They are not a lesson in when to press it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 5 min read
ExchangesWhat is a crypto kiosk?
A bitcoin ATM is not a bank and not a hardware wallet. Hawaii stopped the cash-in side on 1 October 2026. Thirty-four states then told Coinme to leave the kiosk business. The machine was always a money transmitter with a spread.EasyCryptoGuides · · 5 min read
RegulationThe CFTC asked questions about a crypto exchange licence. Questions are not the licence.
On 5 October 2026 the CFTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The Federal Register printed it on 13 October. Comments run to 14 December. There is no rule text in force.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readSecurityBitget lost about $387.5 million from hot wallets. That is an exchange ledger.
On 24 September 2026 Bitget halted withdrawals after unauthorised transfers from hot and warm wallets. The first figure was $351.6 million. A later count, including Zcash and TRON, put it at about $387.5 million. Customer keys were not the story Bitget told.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
ExchangesHow 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 · · 3 min readReview