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by efficax 1472 days ago
well you see, they tried to exchange it for cash and there was no cash left, so it got "stuck"
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LOL, but no.

What they probably mean is that they have a transaction that consumes $1000000 on their address and creates two outputs: $100 withdrawal for client A, and $999900 on a "change" output. Later withdrawals have to link to that change output (bitcoin is a directed acyclic graph of inputs-outputs). If that transaction is not confirmed, then later txs also cannot be confirmed and backlog grows.