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Whenever people need to withdraw, "systems can't handle load" is a constant theme with crypto exchanges or is this an overstatement?


Having worked on a crpyto exchange myself in the past, it's almost never a technical issue; the traffic isn't bloated with media resources or anything, and those requests were just thrown in a backend queue until they were pushed to the chains.


It’s almost like they got greedy and didn’t keep adequate reserves




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