FTX website comes back online with message advising against deposits

Neither FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried nor any FTX official made it clear to its users why the FTX has been removed.

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Financial-troubled crypto exchange FTX has brought its website back online after a period of intermittent downtime. The trading platform now sports a banner confirming the cessation of withdrawals and advising users against depositing.

The FTX website went back online around 21:00 UTC on November 9, after experiencing five separate periods of network downtime lasting more than two hours, according to the website "IS IT DOWN OR JUST ME".

The crypto community on Twitter has also noticed a new bright red banner that can be seen throughout the website that reads:

"FTX is currently unable to process withdrawals. We strongly advise against depositing."

FTX notification of deposits and withdrawals on the trading platform. Source: FTX.com

A pinned message on the official FTX Telegram group on Nov. 8 also confirmed withdrawals had stopped, with no estimate of when they would return.

“We are waiting for confirmation from our team to expedite it. At the moment we don't have an ETA but we will surely communicate it as soon as we have it,” wrote a member of the support staff FTX in the message.

Attempting to create a new account on the website also comes with an alert that “registrations are suspended” at present, Cointelegraph has discovered.

This suggests that deposits, while "strongly discouraged", are only available to those with existing accounts on the trading platform.

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