Binance Founder Gives Nigeria Two Options After The CBN Ban On Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies.
The Binance founder, Changpeng Zhao, the largest cryptocurrency exchange platform globally, has provided options on how Nigerians can safeguard their money. Following an embargo on cryptocurrency trading by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Following the CBN statement on Friday, that prohibited the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Nigeria. CBN Directing all banks and other financial institutions to distinguish and shut down accounts used to trade cryptocurrency.
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During the confusion that gripped many Nigerians that trading the decentralized currency, Changpeng Zhao reacted to the CBN embargo on Twitter, advising Nigerians to take the withdrawal option by pulling out their Naira Binance early as possible to avoid system issues.
However, he stated that Nigerians willing to continue investing in cryptocurrency could take the convert option, which enables them to convert their Naira on Binance to Crypto without leaving the platform, “Crypto is not affected. Also, looking at other P2P fiat options.”
While making the suggestions, Zhao said he “Received notice from our channel partners that NGN (Naira) deposits and withdrawals will be affected. Still confirming details on when/how. Please withdraw your NGN (Naira) as early as possible to avoid potential channel issues. Will share more details as they become available.”
Zhao also disclosed that the penance platform would no longer receive Naira deposit as the cryptocurrency platform has disabled deposit feature, “To err on the safe side, we have also disabled deposits to prevent more NGN (Naira) coming in.”
While addressing a Nigerian user, Zhao said, “Don’t deposit NGN (Naira) anymore. We don’t want any of our user funds to be stuck somewhere. Just to be safe.” The cryptocurrency users can store or deposit cash on a cryptocurrency exchange like penance, bacon, Bundle Africa, Quidax, and Paxful convert to Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies when users want.
Meanwhile, Zhao warned that the CBN ban ordering banks to stop working with cryptocurrency exchange would not prevent peer-to-peer transactions, leading to a boom in the P2P segment, “It is likely that the Nigeria banks will stop working with exchanges. P2P trading will likely flourish as a result.”
Nigeria is the second-largest market for cryptocurrency in the world, and P2P is the most used medium of transactions on the crypto exchange platforms. P2P means direct transactions between two individuals without the involvement of the exchange itself.
