The fact that Binance even has issues with my country has made me almost completely stop working with it...
Binance doesn't have any issue with our country. It's just this present administration that has an issue with Binance and cryptocurrencies in general. I believe you would've realized that now and with the OKX thing too. I believe this attitude is likely to spread to many more exchanges. If Binance had an issue with Nigeria, it would've frozen assets belonging to Nigerians on its platform long time ago. Nigerians still can trade their cryptos on Binance till date. It's just that we can't convert to the local naira. That's all. This shows that government was the one that asked Binance to remove the naira pair on its P2P. It's the same naira pair removal thing on OKX.
I believe it is the same with other fiat currencies. They removed them according to the government's mandate.A lot of traders are actually using the p2p services of binance because of the credibility of the platform. Now, these people need to find alternative trustworthy p2p platforms.
However, I highly believe that binance management is working on complying the regulations of those countries, in prder to get those traders back.
Well, I believe that many exchanges are afraid now to avoid suffering the same fate that Binance is suffering at the hands of the Nigerian government, especially the way they abducted their executives in a very shameful manner. Going forward, many exchanges will delist the P2P activities on their system but many will still dare the government and continue to offer such a service. To me, I see P2P as no trouble at all, only that our government is just looking for what to blame as usual. Even if the centralised exchanges stopped the P2P service, what about the decentralised exchanges, will they enforce such a law and instil the same fear in them as well? That will not work because even if they block them through the ISPs in the country which they have a say over, we will definitely switch to VPN usage and it will be business as usual for us all. I will not be a party to the exchanging of my cryptocurrency through the local exchanges as the government wants, that will only amount to extortion even as the government doesn't care about anyone in my country but themselves.
As for the Binance issue with them, well, Binance continues to talk softly about this and claims they are ever cooperative but our government is proving stubborn. They are being stubborn about what they will lose financially entirely upon if care is not taken. The CEO of Binance even graced an interview with PunchNG a few days ago and the guy was brilliant in his remarks. He alleged the government demanded a bribe of $150m from Binance to trash the case, which I believe since this is the way of our government. The Nigerian government is so unwise and I don't see Binance accepting the NGN service anymore, at least until there is a change in government.