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Bitcoin exchanges actually can't stop people from sending them new Bitcoin deposits because the Bitcoin protocol doesn't provide any way to block new transactions to their existing deposit addresses. About the best they can do is to send out an e-mail like this one.


Even worse, some people used to (don't know if many still do) set up a payout address on whatever mining pool they're using directly to an address on an exchange. Ouch.


In all fairness every exchange ever that I've come across always quite explicitly says 'don't ever do that'.




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