Elon Musk Confronts Binance CEO Over Dogecoin Glitch

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has challenged the Binance Chief Executive Changpeng “CZ” Zhao concerning the cryptocurrency’s exchange issues surrounding dogecoin withdrawal.

Elon Musk had embraced dogecoin, a meme-based coin, earlier this year and consistently tweet about the coin to his over 52 million followers at the time.

This bolstered dogecoin’s value to $0.7 a coin and pushed its market capitalisation to the top ten most valuable cryptocurrencies. The coin has now added a very impressive 6000% to its value compared to this time last year.

In early November 2021, Binance – which holds the spot as the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange according to volume – temporarily held off on any dogecoin withdrawals after an upgrade which led to Binance users claiming that dogecoin had been mistakenly credited to their accounts.

Elon Musk took to Twitter yet again to address CZ Zhao about the dogecoin situation, saying in his tweet that the situation “sounds shady”. Elon Musk posted this tweet in reply to a Coindesk report about Financial Times where CZ said that he’s looking to improve regulators’ views on Binance.

Musk went on to add that the doge holders who use the exchange should be secured from any errors that were not their fault.

After the upgrade glitch, Binance said all the dogecoin sent in error must be returned by the users, or else they will be unable to withdraw or use the funds on their balances. Forbes however reports that users have claimed they do not have the said dogecoin in their Binance accounts.

CZ replied Elon Musk, saying there is a certainty that the issue is with the latest doge wallet, and they have been communication with the developers. CZ went ahead to apologise for any inconveniences caused.

Elon Musk’s tweet prompted the Binance Twitter account to post a thread that explained the situation and the issue with dogecoin withdrawals. Binance has since updated a blog post, stating that it expects dogecoin withdrawals to be temporarily halted for about two weeks.