Daily General Discussion August 23, 2025
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Is there any reason to keep you Eth in L1 instead of L2?
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If you are holding Ethereum, is there any reason to keep you Eth in L1 instead of L2?

Comparing wallets
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Anyone here who uses Zengo / Tangem? After some researching I came down to these two and need to decide.
Ledger and Trezor have some disadvantages so I probably won’t be considering those.
What do you think about the ones I mentioned? Do you have better alternatives? A cold wallet is better than a hot wallet, but would you recommend a cold wallet for any amount, regardless how small?
Or would you keep it on the exchange if it’s not that big of an amount?
And what about long term? Do you need to always buy a new wallet every couple of years, regardless which brand?

Binance froze my funds for 30 days, then sent my withdrawal to the wrong address and blamed it on malware 🤡
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I need to share what just happened because it’s absolutely insane and people should know how Binance treats its users.

Binance opened a bogus $197 “dispute” against me and froze ALL my funds for 30 days straight. Every single day I was threatened — my account would be suspended, closed, or funds withheld unless I paid.

After the 30 days expired, they closed the case themselves without my compliance. Fine, I thought, finally done.

I go to withdraw ~$2,300 BTC to my whitelisted Trezor address — the one I had saved long ago. I didn’t type anything, didn’t paste anything, just clicked the dropdown.

Guess what? Binance sends my money to a completely different Bitcoin address that is NOT mine. When I confronted them, they had the audacity to blame it on “malware” on my device. 🤦‍♂️

Here’s the kicker: their own system behavior proves that’s impossible. If the address had been tampered with locally, Binance’s backend would’ve flagged it as a new address and forced network selection + 2FA. That never happened. They admitted themselves that the transaction was processed as whitelisted. Which means the mistake was inside Binance, not on my machine.

So after 30 days of threats and frozen funds, my very next withdrawal gets “misrouted” to a random address, and they blame me. This isn’t an accident anymore — it looks like retaliation for not bowing to their $197 shakedown.

I have the blockchain records, I have the screenshots of their UI logic, I have the chat trannoscripts where they basically admit it went through as whitelisted.

This company is a predatory custodian that overrides its own security guarantees when it suits them. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. And the fact that they’re hiding behind “malware” excuses while bypassing their billion-dollar whitelist infrastructure is beyond laughable.

People really need to think twice before leaving any serious money on Binance.

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