Thank you for your kind words @ausbitbank!

I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Binance. This also happened to me with a smaller amount but I was lucky to be able to recover funds.
It's exactly these kinds of situations that Xfer aims to prevent. I'm glad to hear that you see the value in the service and plan on using it for future exchange transfers. I am now relieved to be able to use it.

As far as a middleman is concerned, I understand your reluctance very well. I would have the same ones.
However, as I explained during my presentation at HiveFest, I personally would have more to lose than to gain by misappropriating a few hundred or thousand HIVE or HBD.

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