艾哈迈德·奥卢瓦桑乔 编剧
编译：Moni、Odaily 星球日报
2月的最后一天，一则与币安相关的消息引起了加密社区的关注——西非国家尼日利亚向币安索要100亿美元的赔偿。 不过，根据最新消息，这件事似乎出现了逆转。 幕后发生了什么？
接下来，Odaily星球日报带你筛选一下前因后果。
币安 vs. 尼日利亚事件时间表回顾
2 月 28 日，路透社透露，两名币安高管在尼日利亚被拘留。 知情人士透露，尼日利亚上周决定禁止多个加密货币交易网站后，高管飞往尼日利亚，但被该国拘留。 他被国家安全顾问办公室拘留，护照被没收。
2 月 29 日，当地多家媒体报道，尼日利亚央行行长奥拉耶米·卡多佐表示，去年有价值 260 亿美元的无法追踪资金流经币安尼日利亚。 尼日利亚正面临外汇危机，随着当地货币奈拉周三创下历史新低，该国正在寻找限制资本外流的方法。 除了对外国工人征税等措施外，最近再次呼吁限制该国的加密货币成为头条新闻，用户将被禁止访问某些加密货币交易所——包括币安。
事实上，尼日利亚一直是加密货币的快速采用者。 但由于资金溯源问题，一些交易所的服务让国家监管机构非常“头疼”。 当地媒体 Nairametrics 报道称，尼日利亚央行正在与多个政府机构和警方合作。 ，为了进一步调查这些资金的流向，早在 2023 年，币安和一家名为“Binance尼日利亚有限公司”的实体就已被该国证券监管机构警告进行“非法活动”。
3 月 1 日，英国广播公司 (BBC) 报道称，尼日利亚总统媒体顾问巴约·奥纳努加 (Bayo Onanuga) 要求币安支付至少 100 亿美元的赔偿，这一要求是在尼日利亚打击加密货币交易所和本国货币之际提出的。 在货币贬值的背景下，他还声称，如果不阻止币安，由于任意固定外汇汇率，币安将摧毁尼日利亚经济。
同一天，币安从其点对点（P2P）功能中删除了尼日利亚货币奈拉。
事态发生戏剧性转变？ 尼日利亚改变了态度，“从未说过对币安的罚款为 100 亿美元”。
Just after multiple media reported that it would be fined $10 billion in Nigeria, a response from Binance co-founder He Yi circulated in the community, which read: "Who is worth $10 billion?"
Soon, things seemed to take a turn.
According to the latest news from local media Gazettegr, Binance has stated on Friday that it has not entered into any negotiations with the Nigerian government regarding the possibility of paying a fine of up to 10 billion U.S. dollars, which apparently contradicts reports published by the BBC. An undisclosed person from the exchange The named official said:
"We have recently discussed with Nigeria ways to resolve the issue, but we have not heard any request for $10 billion."
Interestingly, Binance seems to be in no mood to discuss paying hefty compensation to the Nigerian government to restore recently cut-off services, or releasing executives detained for alleged involvement in manipulation. Instead, the Binance official added:
"Binance's goal is to build a good relationship with the Nigerian government and people and hope to see services in Nigeria restored soon, but we have no intention of paying fines for people or services."
What happened next shocked the people who had eaten melon before.
Nigeria’s presidential media adviser, Bayo Onanuga, has urgently clarified that his statements to the BBC were distorted by the British media outlet and that he never said the company had been informed or that Nigeria’s regulator had decided to impose a fine. Bayo Onanuga explains:
“I said the Nigerian government could impose a huge fine on Binance for what happened, but I never said Binance had been informed of the fine, and I never said the fine would definitely be $10 billion, I just said it was possible. A certain amount of fines will be levied because nothing has been finalized yet.” (Bayo Onanuga repeatedly emphasized the uncertainty of fines).
It is worth mentioning that although it is unclear what measures Binance has taken to release its personnel, Bayo Onanuga revealed that the detained "Binance employees have cooperated with the Nigerian government to provide information."
In summary, "Nigeria will fine Binance $10 billion" is likely to be a big own incident, and the BBC's misunderstanding report has caused the information to be fermented incorrectly. After all-"Who is worth $10 billion?"
