This is not unusual for exchanges but I still strongly prefer River over any other service. The Bitcoin has settled but the fiat transaction has not settled. It may show as such on your end but on the banking side this can take about a week or more. There are a lot of things that happen that can slow down the settlement process so they are quoting 20 days because they know that for sure the transaction should absolutely settle or reject by that time. During this time if the transaction is rejected by the banks and is clawed back you end up in a situation where a bad actor can steal Bitcoin from an exchange. Once it is withdrawn there is no possible way to recover it. Exchange writes it off as a loss and often the fraud isn't worth perusing an individual bad actor over.
Strike has determined this is an acceptable risk and they most likely have active monitoring solutions in place to help keep that risk low, but this is risky for other reasons and no easy task to monitor.
My guess is that Strike also mitigates that risk by having much lower limits on buys/withdrawals. It's hard to follow the differences in exchanges, especially when some of the policies change based on the risk profile of the customer. In general, I buy normally on strike and if I ever get a large inflow of cash, use River.
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Once more legal guidance is given a lot of these inconsistencies between exchanges will be cleared up and a better user experience across the board.
Reach out to Strikes customer service and put in a request to increase your limits. Be sure to specify an amount. They will do a review and get back to you. If you have a newer account you might wait a few months.
I like River because they provide a lot of stuff for taxes. The dashboards are built with that in mind from the start so you can see a detailed breakdown on your DCA.
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