I started getting concerned after they just keep stalling and tweeting new times and new excuses. I went to search Japanese news sites and found this article about Japanese government raids today. Since Binance is one of the largest exchanges with 15% of the daily volume, I assume the govt officials would be taking a look at them. Here is the article:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/raids-japan-crypto-exchanges-coincheck-hack-031145946.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=ma
New raids on Japan crypto exchanges after Coincheck hack
AFP AFP•February 8, 2018
Finance Minister Taro Aso said the raids were being carried out on exchanges to "examine their internal governance structure"
Finance Minister Taro Aso said the raids were being carried out on exchanges to "examine their internal governance structure" (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
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Japan said on Friday it had carried out raids on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges following a massive hack that saw thieves steal $530 million in virtual currency.
The hack of Coincheck was one of the largest of its kind, and prompted authorities to search the firm's offices last week, after slapping it with an administrative order.
Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday those raids were now being expanded.
"We have started to raid several virtual currency exchanges," he told reporters, adding that the raids were intended to "examine their internal governance structure".
Aso, also the minister in charge of financial services, has admitted that the government "needs to strengthen our supervision" of virtual currency exchanges.
Japanese officials have suggested Coincheck lacked proper security measures, making itself vulnerable to theft.
In the wake of the theft, the country's Financial Services Agency instructed more than a dozen local exchanges to submit reports on their efforts to monitor systemic risks.
Thieves syphoned away 523 million units of the cryptocurrency NEM from Coincheck during the January 26 hack, exceeding the $480 million in virtually currency stolen in 2014 from another Japanese exchange, MtGox.
That hack prompted Japan to issue new regulations, requiring exchanges to obtain a licence from the FSA, but Coincheck was allowed to continue operating while the agency was reviewing its application.
The firm has said it will reimburse customers who lost money in the hack, which is still being investigated by local authorities.
Reports in Japan's media in recent days have suggested hackers may have accessed the firm from abroad.
The Yomiuri Shimbun earlier this week cited unnamed police sources as saying Coincheck was repeatedly accessed illegally through servers in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands in the days before it was hit.
And the Asahi Shimbun daily reported Friday that part of the stolen cryptocurrency was sent to an exchange in New Zealand called Cryptopia.
Cryptopia offers a platform for trading various virtual currencies including bitcoin, according to its website.
In recent weeks, regulators around the world have discussed or begun imposing new restrictions on virtual currencies.
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thanks for the vote and I was reading your site. not quite sure i understand completely but I assume it means that it is ok to share an article you find when you submit the link to the article and my post is really me posting my evaluation or opinion about the potential real reason behind binance's sudden shutdown and tweets that keep extending the time. I went on to a japanese browser to search japanese news articles and wanted to share the article to see if anyone else had any thoughts on whether this could be the real problem for binance. If you just search the american google, often information is removed and I hadn't seen anything about this in the usual crypto forums I go to.