I don't normally wade into this kind of pissing contest. But this claim is incredibly naive. The auditor that withdrew from their engagment with Binance is Mazars, and it is a very large international accounting firm. The media has reported that Mazars has suspended all work with
all of its crypto clients. So this may not be a reflection on Binance specifically; it sounds more like a business decision that reflects on the overall state of the crypto industry.
But the claim that the auditor was "paid so much that he felt the need to retire" is, indeed, ridiculous. The auditor is not a
he. The auditor is not an individual. The auditor is a very large international accounting firm. Accounting firms do not retire. An individual accountant at the firm can certainly retire, but when that happens, the firm will generally continue to service the clients that were serviced by the person who has retired.
Referring to the Binance's auditor as "he" and speculating that he retired conjures up an image of
one guy, working in an office somewhere, who is the "Binance auditor." That's... just
not how things work at large multinational corporations.
If I have a small family restaurant with gross sales of $750K per year, then
yes, it is possible that I might have to find a new accountant on short notice if the guy who has been doing my books, taxes and payroll for the last five years decides to retire, or if he has a heart attack and does not have a proper business succession plan in place. That kind of thing actually happens all the time.
That doesn't happen at businesses the size of Mazars and Binance.
An official statement from Mazars said that it had "paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in the cryptocurrency sector due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public."
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/maz...ypto-clients-including-binance-cryptocom.html
Mazars is the same accounting firm that quit doing work for Trump. According to documents filed in court in New York, the firm declared that a decade’s worth of statements of ex-President Donald Trump’s financial condition "should no longer be relied upon."
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/14/trump-tax-firm-says-documents-not-reliable.html
I mean, seriously... does
@Tokenz think that the "auditor who quit" was an
individual employee at Binance?? LMFAO