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I doubt they'd pull shenanigans on a relatively low volume day like today
Unless volume is down because Binance users aren't trading. Maybe I am too suspicious but it seems like exchanges regularly go dark when there's downward price volatility. Either their systems can't handle user activity in these periods or they are trying to calm the markets a bit.
NickCJ-
Unless volume is down because Binance users aren't trading.
Trading hasn't been disabled on Binance, just withdrawals for half an hour or so.
Exchanges usually do this if more people are withdrawing than normal and they need some time to raid their cold wallets or if there is a stuck transaction requiring a hot wallet to be reindexed. In an effort to not be another MTGox, exchanges only put a bare minium coins in harms way and sometimes increases in demand can catch them by suprise.
You are not wrong to be suspicious. As you say, some of the big boys have form for mysteriously pausing trading for extended periods with no reasonable explanation during big dumps.
Stonehedge
I mean, stuck transactions can only be fixed by wallet reindexes so do require downtime. Whilst I am sceptical about the long term lgitimacy of Binamce I doubt they'd pull shenanigans on a relatively low volume day like today.