Cryptopia status: access issues and outage reports

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Cryptopia Issues Reports

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  Urban Hacker (@realUrbanHacker) reported 2 minutes ago

  After the Coldcard hack the vultures arrived on schedule, circling in perfect formation, announcing that self custody is de facto dead. You've read the posts. If only these poor souls had kept their coins "on an exchange," none of this would have happened. Adults said this out loud, in public, with their real names attached. So let's do the thing nobody circling the corpse wanted to do. Let's look at the data. 🔴 Mt. Gox — 2014 Hot-wallet theft + years of mismanagement → insolvency ~850,000 BTC (~200k later recovered) 🔴 Bitfinex — 2016 Hot wallet breach ~119,756 BTC 🔴 Coincheck — 2018 Hot wallet breach (NEM) ~523M XEM (~USD 530M then) 🔴 Zaif — 2018 Hot wallet breach ~5,966 BTC + other assets (~USD 60M) 🔴 QuadrigaCX — 2018–19 Not a classic hack: founder death + "inaccessible" cold wallets; monitor found big shortfall / suspected fraud ~26,000 BTC + other coins (~CAD 190–250M+) 🔴 Cryptopia — 2019 Hacked, then liquidation (BTC + alts) ~USD 16M+ initially reported 🔴 Binance — 2019 Hot wallet breach 7,000 BTC (~USD 40M — SAFU covered users) 🔴 KuCoin — 2020 Hot wallets breached ~USD 275M mixed tokens 🔴 BitMart — 2021 Hot wallets breached ~USD 150–200M mixed 🔴 FTX / Alameda — 2022 Fraud & insolvency; customer funds misused ~USD 8–10B shortfall 🔴 DMM Bitcoin — 2024 Unauthorized outflow 4,502.9 BTC (~USD 300M+) 🔴 WazirX — 2024 Multisig / custody breach ~USD 230–235M mixed 🔴 Bybit — 2025 Cold-wallet / signer exploit ~401,000 ETH (~USD 1.4–1.5B), not BTC-led Custodial and protocol heists together — centralized exchanges plus DeFi and bridges — run into the tens of billions of dollars over their lifetime at event prices, with single bad years clearing USD 2–3B in hacks alone. That's not counting fraud, insolvency, or the founder who dies with the keys in his head. One Coldcard wave: roughly USD 0.04–0.07B. Do the division. Very rough math puts Coldcard at somewhere between 0.1% and 1% of a single bad year, and comfortably under 1% of lifetime headline losses from exchanges and DeFi combined. It is a rounding error. It is the tip you leave on the bill for everything else that got stolen this decade. And it is being used as an argument to hand your keys back to the same institutions that produced the top of that table. But I'm not going to end on a smug ratio, because something about this genuinely bothers me. The people who lost money here were not degens. They weren't farming yield on a bridge held together with hope and a Discord moderator. They were the careful ones — the people who read the guides, bought the hardware, wrote the words down on steel, and did everything the responsible adults told them to do. Playing it safe is exactly what got them hit. That's the part that stings, and anyone selling you a custodial account off the back of their pain should be treated accordingly. The conclusion doesn't move, though. Verify your entropy, verify your seed on a second implementation, stop trusting single black boxes — and understand that from a strict safety analysis, your funds have never been safer than in self custody.

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  Ori Al-Sirr (@OriAlSirr) reported 2 minutes ago

  Scams (2016–2019): Mostly Ponzi schemes and fake projects (Bitconnect, OneCoin, PlusToken). Mismanagement/Hacks (2014–2019): Weak custody led to catastrophic hacks (Mt. Gox, Cryptopia). Leverage & Risk (2022): A wave of collapses tied to contagion from Terra/LUNA and 3AC, exposing reckless lending practices. Fraud (2022): FTX revealed how lack of transparency and misuse of customer funds can devastate the entire ecosystem. @RichardHeartWin

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  RandomPanda (@BlooDh3xx) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Fullbeerbottle oof Bring me back to the good ol' days where buying random **** on Etherdelta and selling it on Binance / Bittrex / Cryptopia was an ez 10-50x...

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  Ben (@0xBenscrypto) reported 9 minutes ago

  Over 300 crypto exchanges have shut down since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009. Now, the funny thing about most of these CEX shutdowns is that most times, not all users get their money back. Some of the biggest CEX collapse by customer impact are: - Mt. Gox (~850,000 BTC lost) - FTX (~$8–11 billion shortfall) - QuadrigaCX (~CAD 215 million) - Cryptopia - FCoin - Hotbit - Bittrex - BTC-e - Cryptsy - Livecoin How many of these exchanges did you ever make use of?

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  🩸Don Kane (@TheDonKane) reported 9 minutes ago

  Luckily one wallet I had found supported DOGE and so I pulled out about half (Later sold wayyyy before top) About a year or so later Cryptopia shut down (might of been hacked, can't remember)

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  JW (@0xconfucian) reported 9 minutes ago

  @aulijk I just remember there was also a cryptopia hack lol I lost a few hundred litecoins there no support from the exchange

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  The Real Sam Clark, Cryptopia Tech Faction Advisor (@TheCryptopia) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CryptopiaOFCL Hanging out with technocrats in Cryptopia's Discord server

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  Peter L. Murphy (@MurphyPeterN) reported 15 minutes ago

  🚨 Scam update,,,,,,,,: #Cryptopia ❌ Many users report frozen funds and withdrawal issues ❌ 💸 Act fast — you might still retrieve your crypto. #Cryptoscam #CryptoRecovery 📩 Speak with verified recovery experts.

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  Denis Haber (@zl_Haber21) reported 17 minutes ago

  If rumors are true that eToro is shutting down, then what’s up with Cryptopia?

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  Casino Hunk (@casino_hunk) reported 19 minutes ago

  Just thinking about how cryptopia has some of my **** from 2017 and won’t let me recover it even though I offered my id and other ****. They want to know exactly what I had and how much. How ******** am I supposed to remember that?

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  Fungibles (@fungibIes) reported 22 minutes ago

  @gainzy222 we held we held in ICO’s that didn’t happen and in promises made by **** exchange’s (ex: cryptopia) also im still retarted

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  BOBCAT (@bobcatbts) reported 29 minutes ago

  @CryptoLifer33 Rimbit.....bought using PayPal on a crowd funding website, but it had liquidity on cryptopia. It was also my first rug....

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  JayPizzle.eth 🎅🎄 👾🛒 (@JayPizzleDotEth) reported 30 minutes ago

  @koreanjewcrypto - China bans bitcoin - No bitcoin ETF - Suppoman / Ian Bellina / sheep tape - Chinese New Year withdrawals to buy gifts - CZ Bermuda shorts - Shill Nye still active - Cryptopia went down - 43 months in 6k range - Buffet calls it rat poison You're kidding, right? 2018 was crazy.

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  Golden Bull (@GoldenBullX) reported 32 minutes ago

  @AltcoinDaily Yep, at Etherdelta somewhere, not worth to get the dust out of it. And some other first ones at Cryptopia, God knows where it is or wtf my logins are

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  Kamal (@Kamal92424454) reported 32 minutes ago

  @SuperK200 @Cryptopia_NZ I got the mail but can't log in with authentication as error starts coming "Please enter a valid, and current code." even though I am entering correct code. The Grant T doing everything to give a safe passage to Cryptopia and loot it's customers

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  Thundercock (@EnyaSuperfan69) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Cheguevoblin kucoin in the last cycle was cryptopia/poloniex from 2016/17 fun af. you could just sit on one site and flip around all night.

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  The Vexed Chef (@cheftwon88) reported 38 minutes ago

  @debaas Lol cryptopia was great, felt like someone whipped up a website from the back of their tent at a campground

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  Michael McQuaid (@michaelgmcquaid) reported 45 minutes ago

  2/ smaller exchanges like Cryptopia go down, I will admit that my senses had become lulled. I truly believed that we were past the era of Tier 1 exchanges failing. Self custody is just as important today as it was in 2013, or 2009 for that matter.

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  *Sponge* (@StupiditySponge) reported 48 minutes ago

  @TuurDemeester Hack, is the same thing right? This was a hack of the system. So this is a new leak that has to be solved. I had trust issue’s with exchanges any ways…. Cryptopia same same. This is just a different hack of the system from within that has to be solved in order to grow trust.

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  Titi Mentor | Noya (@titimentor) reported 48 minutes ago

  It's unfortunate that some of us don't learn after hearing several terrible stories about leaving funds in CEX. QuadrigaCX, cryptopia, and more others. I, myself is one of the unlucky people who have funds in FTX. Dear crypto frens, avoid leaving huge sums or any money that would affect you in CEX, no matter their credibility. Making money and losing it to hack or theft or some shady action is more painful than losing it to "investment gone wrong." WAGMI

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  gabriele (@lelebtcbeliever) reported 52 minutes ago

  I have been in crypto for over 10 years. The best advice i can give you is to spread your holdings over several exchanges. My portfolio is spread as followed, to minimize risks: 20% MtGox 20% BTC-E 20% Cryptsy 20% Cryptopia 20% FTX Plan is to log in and cash out in 5 years🫣😜

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  Hizzim (@_hizzim) reported 52 minutes ago

  @TylerDurden @EtherDelta @Cryptopia_NZ Cryptopia wasn't a DEX was it? Hence the **** show of a legal case that still isn't resolved

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  Zack 'Revoluzion' (@Revoluzion77) reported 52 minutes ago

  @BinanceEvavvvva @binance Always! I understand people are just a little skeptical on the issues since Cryptopia goes missing, FTX collapse etc but they have to realize that Binance is way ahead of its game, i wouldn't even think twice to be worried.

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  DFarmer (@OGDfarmer) reported 52 minutes ago

  @blknoiz06 Ltc Pairs on cryptopia, ICO vamps and fakes on etherdelta to this day the worst UX in all of tek ( catching wrong 0’s still goated though ) wanchain and bundled scams. Inaccessible “launchpads” that where more rigged than any whitelist and seed round nowadays. Actual devs booby trapping any pow coin so not only you got rugged, your whole stack ( and pc with all your info tbh ) could get drained in an instant. I had ( and still hold somwhere ) a dozen chromebocks all labeled “biohazard” for experiments. Alqo still goated and made me though. Now you just burn one of your million hot wallets and move on. Paper wallets. Actual paper wallets you had to print. Yes. With a physical printer. “Dev died” a lot more back then too. Then you had 2020 summer of defi where all of that got sped up 100x on the EVM. Booby traps and liquidity deains and exploits everywhere. Plus you actually had to THINK. Not fnf fortnite style, think and tinker and try and take a leap of faith at some point. I remember the rabbithole launch night of YFI launch, having to try Compound and Balancer and a hlaf a dozen protocols and feeling like Einstain and Columbus and Tesla all wrapped up in one. A new world being disocvered. And we didn’t have the tooling we have now, you either had very, very good dev friends who also never slept, or you got ****** at every move and just gambled with it all. Nah it wasn’t ******* easy. And the plumbers where ******* ninjas I guess. And it WAS romantic. And exciting. And everything else you can think of. I have stories for days, I haven’t even srmcratxhed the surface. Could fill a book with it and at some point I might. I am forever grateful and forever broken because of this decade. It has been the most stimulating and wild environment my kid self could ever imagine.

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  Denis Haber (@zl_Haber21) reported 54 minutes ago

  If rumors are true that eToro is shutting down, then what’s up with Cryptopia

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  Mr. Wain (@AintScott) reported 57 minutes ago

  @SammyJoe_786 @CryptoTony__ It's like reading my own experience, bought doge around 0.002 and then forgot about it until last years ath. Only ****, it got stuck on cryptopia (now in last step to get it back)

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  Emmy Crrypt ₿ (@emmanuel_mbeyi) reported 57 minutes ago

  6) Benefits of Rare Cryptopia Pass. - Access to an airdrop pool of 15,000 CPI per month, active for 5 months - Get 20% of node dividends - Access to the rare blind box airdrop of the platform - Cryptopia DAO governance rights - Get 10 voting rights - Right to token airdrops

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  Johnathan Karl (@slimvee_1) reported 58 minutes ago

  🚨 #Cryptopia is under investigation for freezing accounts and withholding investor funds. ❌ 💸 There’s still a chance to recover what you’ve lost — act quickly to protect your assets. 📩 Contact verified #CryptoRecovery specialists today for secure and professional support.

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  فهد العتيبي (@fahadkhaled_alo) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Crypt0men وصلك هذا الايميل Dear Cryptopia Account Holder, This is an important notice regarding your claim in the liquidation of Cryptopia Limited (in liquidation). The High Court has directed that 30 September 2025 was the Final Cut off Date for completing the claims process through the Cryptopia Claims Portal. This is inline with court orders sent to account holders at the end of 2024 a copy of which can be found here. What this means for you If you have been invited to a stage beyond ID verification, such as accepting or disputing your account balance and/or providing valid payment details, you have most likely already completed the necessary steps. Please log in to the claims portal to confirm progress. However, if you have registered an account but have not yet been invited to the later stages, you may still be invited to complete these steps after the cut-off date. If you have not registered we encourage you again to register on the portal to ensure your entitlement is recorded. If you have not completed the claims process by the 30 September 2026 deadline, your claim may be treated as abandoned, and you could lose your entitlement to any distribution from the cryptocurrency trusts. If this applies to you, please log in immediately to complete the process and secure your participation. Please log in to the Cryptopia Claims Portal to check which stage you are currently at. If you are having issues with completing the claims process, or have any questions about your claim, please raise a helpdesk ticket in the Customer Service Portal at the below link. This Zendesk portal is separate from the claims portal and can be accessed by any account holder, provided they register and click the “Sign Up” button on the page. Further Directions Hearing Scheduled for May 2026 As detailed in our previous report Liquidators’ 13 Report on the State of Affairs of Cryptopia Limited (in Liquidation), we have filed a further application for Directions to determine a range of issues including: To determine liability relating to the hack How surplus trust property ought to be distributed post the final cut-off date as above The amount of a contingent creditor claim This hearing has been scheduled for 25 - 29 May 2026 and with previous hearings the Court has appointed Counsel Jenny Cooper KC, Jane Barrow, Peter Watts KC and Matthew Crawford to assist the Court in respect of the proceeded. A copy of the the associated court orders can be found at the below links: Appointment of counsel and directions as to service date 9 September 2025 Endorsed originating application Memorandum of counsel for liquidators Affidavit of David Ian Ruscoe Please note that all previous updates on the Liquidation have been moved to a new page on the Grant Thornton New Zealand website, which can be found here. This is an automated email, please do not reply.

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  Breadman (@BTCBreadMan) reported 59 minutes ago

  2017 •BTC-e – One of the longest-running Bitcoin exchanges, shut down in July 2017 after U.S. authorities seized servers and charged the operator with money laundering. •Bitfinex (partial failure) – Not a full shutdown, but in 2017 it was still recovering from its massive 2016 hack and issued BFX tokens to cover losses. •Yobit, Cryptopia (issues began) – Not total collapse yet, but operational and withdrawal issues started to appear in late 2017. ⸻ 2018 •Coincheck – Hacked in January 2018 for ~$530 million in NEM, one of the largest crypto thefts ever. The exchange halted withdrawals for months, damaging trust. •MapleChange – Canadian exchange that vanished in November 2018 after claiming it was hacked; widely regarded as an exit scam. •Bitsane – Popular for XRP trading, became inaccessible in mid-2018 with user funds gone. •Liqui – Ceased operations in 2018 due to “lack of liquidity” after the bear market hit. •QuadrigaCX (problems started) – In 2018, withdrawal delays and banking issues escalated; it fully collapsed in early 2019. •Cryptopia – New Zealand exchange that began having serious operational issues in late 2018, then was hacked and shut down in early 2019.