Cryptopia status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Cryptopia Issues Reports

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  Golden Bull (@GoldenBullX) reported 9 seconds 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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  Urban Hacker (@realUrbanHacker) reported 5 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 5 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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  Hizzim (@_hizzim) reported 5 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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  George M. Carney (@GMCarneyy) reported 8 minutes ago

  🚨 Scam Warning — #Cryptopia ❌ Locked accounts & missing funds reported 🛑 Stay cautious and secure your records 📩 Seek help from trusted recovery specialists #CryptoScam #CryptoRecovery

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  The Real Sam Clark, Cryptopia Tech Faction Advisor (@TheCryptopia) reported 10 minutes ago

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

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  ꧁𓊈𒆜🆅🅸🅲🅺🆈𒆜𓊉꧂ (@0x_ExTrader67) reported 10 minutes ago

  @AltCryptoGems I gived up one time when cryptopia exchange being hacked and shutting down. Then I lost 90% of portfolio bcz I traded on cryptopia, Still didn't claimed my funds. One of the darkest days in my life

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  JW (@0xconfucian) reported 16 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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  🩸Don Kane (@TheDonKane) reported 17 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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  Rizzy (@0xrizzyy) reported 17 minutes ago

  I’ll pull the real history on each exchange. I remember a story back then for every one of those names: • MintPal got hacked, then “saved” by a guy calling himself Alex Green. A few weeks later the BTC was gone, the site was gone, and Alex Green was just Ryan Kennedy with a new name. People were watching their coins walk out of a wallet that was supposed to be cold storage. • EtherDelta was supposed to be the opposite of that. No custody. Your keys. Then someone hijacked the DNS, stood up a clone site, and users typed their keys into a fake homepage. One person lost around $800k before anyone even noticed the chat button was missing. • Cryptopia got hit in January 2019. Site goes into maintenance. Then liquidation. Then years of Grant Thornton emails, claim portals, and people still waiting while lawyers argued over whether their coins were even theirs. Some finally got a distribution years later. • Poloniex was the altcoin casino everyone used. Then it socialized losses, Circle bought it, Circle dumped it, US users got kicked, and the brand kept changing hands until it barely looked like the same place. • Bittrex lasted longer than most. Then the SEC showed up, the US arm wound down, Global went into liquidation, and customers were filling out proof-of-debt forms for balances they used to withdraw with one click. That was the game. You left coins on an exchange and hoped the website came back tomorrow. We have come a long way.

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  barney (@barneyxbt) reported 17 minutes ago

  @100xChaser bruh what did cryptopia do I miss that site so much

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  (💙,🧡)nikavc.eth (@Caominhhai13) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TylerDurden @EtherDelta @Cryptopia_NZ Agree! Etherdelta is the Dex I used, but it is very lag at that time. Because of it, they cannot compete with Binance! But wtf, cryptopia is Cex, I lost 10Eth on that!!

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  Baksh the ₿eliever (@CryptoBaksh) reported 25 minutes ago

  @painkillerbill I lost 50 bucks on cryptopia when it shut down, my first 30 days in crypto, still hurts.

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  Matrix⚡️ (@MatrixXBT) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Cryptopia13 @CloutedMind why are u even calling yourself cryptopia and have web3 in your bio if u think its all nonsense and greater fool theory ? also our argumentation wasnt about if there is more risk and prices may go down more because of btc treasury companies. if its all nonsense for u

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  SmileyGnome (@SmileyGnome) reported 26 minutes ago

  @MoonOverlord Lost a couple million dogecoin on Cryptopia when they shut down.

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  josh (@basedhusky) reported 27 minutes ago

  @ApeDurden Only real ones remember the guy that bought like 3 btc of $KIDS token on Cryptopia at 6 satoshi but there were 0 sell orders in the orderbook so it was impossible to sell it.

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  C. Duckersonian (@countrybuns_) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SigmaSquared_ TVL surges after exchange blowups is contradictory. A bit naive to think that normies in 2025 getting to experience yet another Cryptopia/FTX moment will suddenly restore faith in defi lmao, especially considering how **** this sector has fared in the last year

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  Pallen37 (@Pallen37) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ThisIsNuse 💯hahaha for sure. Thank god I never traded there much but that caught my attention after learning the super slow emission Zero proof coin launch. Poloniex, Bittrex, Cryptopia, but mostly Poloniex was my jam back then.. man I miss those days!

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  Dilettante Jr (@dilettantejr) reported 34 minutes ago

  @debaas **** I lost some LTC and Mothership in Cryptopia, clearly didn't learn my lesson

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  Exodus Gear ⭕✨ (@Exodus_Gear) reported 41 minutes ago

  @camiinthisthang You should have seen the **** show that was MT Gox, Poloniex and Cryptopia. This is nothing lol

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  Wagmi 😍😇 (@olawunmi31w) reported 43 minutes ago

  @edward_farina I'm sorry about that @edward_farina if you still have the proof of scam try message @gerard_solos0 with it to help you out he is the senior OSI blockchain developer who helped me recover my coins from the cryptopia scam thank God for providing him for us in the web 3.0 community

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  Ben (@0xBenscrypto) reported 48 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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  Ali Müller (@MullerAlih) reported 49 minutes ago

  molten metal melts my wallet, but at least i'm in good company cryptopia's ghosts still haunt the server rooms

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  curb.sol (@CryptoCurb) reported 52 minutes ago

  @skibumtrading @FBI THANK YOU! it happened to me on cryptopia and BTC-e people think this **** is not real/not possible to happen, and then it happens.

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  Stan (@CryptoBernese) reported 54 minutes ago

  I lost money (crypto) on btc-e, cryptopia, envion (scam ICO), celcius, ftx and blockfi. Mostly dust, couple of grands sometimes, and up to 2% of my nw on blockfi. I'm working on getting everything on cold storage (half already is)

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  Charlie (@btc_charlie) reported 55 minutes ago

  @csin02 @abetrade To be fair: 1) I own 0 BTC that I have access to (9 or so on cryptopia) 2) Mini-brands is just some random ****. Didn't realise they ventured into $BTC. She actually got $BTC and pop-tarts... basically me.

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  AMLBot (@AMLBotHQ) reported 56 minutes ago

  @CryptoCurb @FBI BTC-e was shut down for money laundering. Cryptopia died after a massive hack. Binance? Already went through every possible investigation, paid $4.3B in fines, and operates under U.S. oversight. So no — this isn’t “the next BTC-e.” This is a regulated giant, not a shadow CEX from 2017. Posts like this are pure coordinated FUD)

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  BOBCAT (@bobcatbts) reported 56 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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  digispud 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🐢 (@digispud) reported 56 minutes ago

  @BitPaine That's the problem with magic Internet money. It doesn't feel real, so you waste it on crap. I've never done anything as dumb as this, but I did once send a whole bitcoin to Cryptopia that I'll never see again.

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  ant (@ThisIsNuse) reported 59 minutes ago

  Thinking that Ordinals and Runes are dead because of a singular (and unsupportive) platform shutting down is like saying Altcoins are forever dead because BTC-E is gone Cryptsy is gone Bittrex is gone Cryptopia is gone And the list goes on infinity