I... never said that you did? I know you don't, your first post suggests that you and I both want to see crypto go up in flames. That said, defending Binance isn't a prerequisite for spreading FUD. What I'm saying is that you are wrong about this withdrawal freeze being a "pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain" - it is an entirely separate freeze. Here's a really condensed version of what's happened here:
Binance: "Hey guys, we're gonna have some down time soon for a fork."
Binance: "Hey guys, here's our planned downtime."
Binance: "Hey guys, our planned downtime is over."
Binance: "Oops, hey, there have been a lot of withdrawals, we're freezing them."
HN: "Oh wow, there was a run on Binance and now they've frozen withdrawals, shouldn't they have the cash?"
You: "Stop spreading FUD, this was just a planned downtime."
Me: "No it wasn't, here's proof."
You: "This is FUD, it was just a planned downtime."
Me: "... here's more proof?"
You: "I said I wasn't defending Binance."
... and I'm scrolling through the replies and not really seeing anything about anyone confirming functional withdrawals. But that's ignoring the fact that third-party claims of functional withdrawals are irrelevant to my point. None of those claims would change the fact that this downtime was not "pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain". Binance themselves have publicly confirmed this today, regardless of what you're saying third parties have claimed.
* Okay, so you have to click through the shared Tweet on this one, but this appears to be what you're getting at. The few tweets from people at the start of the thread confirming withdrawals all posted during the time that Binance themselves said withdrawals were frozen, and they conveniently offer no actual proof of a successful withdrawal. Scrolling further, there are other people who commented around the same time (or even more recently, since Binance announced they'd resumed) who have been having trouble performing withdrawals. Unreliable anecdata at best.
