The ever-famous McAfee is at it again, but this time he isn’t promoting an ICO or his unhackable wallet. Instead, he decided to go on a crusade against the sixth-largest exchange by volume, HitBTC.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1012330185872564224
Calling for a boycott of an exchange with a heavy accusation is nothing new, but we spotted some peculiar behavior following this. About 12 hours ago, McAfee retweeted something from an account called “McAfeeExecutive,” apparently belonging to Jimmy Watson, the executive advisor for the McAfee Crypto Team.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1012556054109065216
In this particular tweet, Watson called HitBTC a scam, but added that their corporate team called and fixed his problem.
Perhaps this is the reason why John McAfee had such a focus on the exchange recently? From the looks of it, it appears that a member of the team had a problem withdrawing his funds from the exchange, which set off an alarm that snowballed up the chain.
Here’s something interesting, though: McAfee’s tweet led us to look into complaints about HitBTC in his replies and around Reddit. It seems like having withdrawals stuck is a common problem with the exchange.
To be fair, one shouldn’t judge a company by the complaints it gets, but in this case, the list is quite long. There are users complaining about their funds being withheld since December.
This is nothing new for the exchange, as complaints like these have been appearing since 2015. The issue may have even prompted HitBTC to stop doing its activities in Japan, a country that has significantly raised its standards for exchanges ever since the hack of Coincheck.
McAfee’s tweets seem to have had a negligible effect on the exchange, however, as HitBTC is ranked four places higher than it was three days ago.
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