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> The problem with suspending withdrawals for crypto firms is the market interprets it as your exchange is insolvent

That’s a problem with suspending withdrawals, especially by individual institutions, generally, I think, which is one reason why government deposit insurance is the better solution, in practice. Even the 1933 Bank Holiday in the US, a government-declared suspension of banking, probably only succeeded because the government established temporary emergency deposit insurance during the break.




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