A few have even closed accounts or
frozen user funds.
Not exact matches
«The consortium of 40 + banks (known as R3cev) which aims to do just that will inevitably develop something which: is permissioned (for
users and developers like the apple app store), privatized, has fees, will not be entirely transparent to everyone, will not be open - source, it will definitely be inflationary to accommodate monetary policy of debasement and fractional reserve schemes, it will facilitate negative interest rates, central control of accounts for suspension /
freezing of
funds, bail - ins, bail outs, capital controls and transactions will include the identity of both sender and receiver and store that information in a centralized location for the convenience of hackers.»
Forex based exchanges attract popularity due to the lack of regulations while at the same time putting traders»
funds at risk since most of these platforms are not transparent (as we have observed, they can influence their
users» actions,
freeze their accounts or deny a withdraw request at any time).
The Binance Team reminded
users that the selling of Binance accounts is a strictly forbidden practice and to ensure
funds safety, all Binance accounts that are identified as being bought / sold will be
frozen and disabled.
Until a potential solution is found, customer accounts have been
frozen, leaving
users without the option to withdraw their digital
funds.
But its ability to manage customer complaints — ranging from
frozen accounts to thousands of dollars in missing
funds — hasn't kept up with
user demand.
Parity, the company whose multi-sig wallets were
frozen due to a bug in their smart contract code which was exploited by a Github
user, is now asking the Ethereum foundation for a hard fork in order to recover the lost
funds.
Since Bitcoin does not allow
funds to be
frozen and unfrozen according to the transactions of the secondary blockchain, the
user that wants to transfer
funds in and out of the sidechain will instead transfer these
funds to a special multisig address that is controlled by the federations.
Also read: «Not - So - Decentralized» Ripple
Freezes $ 1m in
User Funds Netki: Removing
State channels are a form of side - chain which lets
users freeze a certain amount of
funds in the channel, transact as many times as they want, and then only the final totals for each
user are recorded to the mainnet.