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I'm looking for a lawyer who know about Crypto Market. I have a big problem with poloniex and can't get any help from SEC or other institutions.
Does someone has any experiences with this?

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Experience with what, exactly? Kind of hard to answer that if we don't know what happened between you and Poloniex.

There are online legal advice services like LegalZoom, but I have no idea how reliable they actually are. If it's a big problem concerning a large amount of money, you should probably spare no expense as far as advice goes -- look for one in your area.

Or maybe you can move your questions to the right board, Legal (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=74.0). You can look for the move topic button (bottom left of the page).

Its best to look for a law firm on your country. I think there's the same story before that his funds were freezed by an exchange and he got helped from a lawyer to claim it.

I can only help you of searching and this is what I've found --> https://thecryptolawyers.com/

Try to negotiate them.

You could describe your situation better. That could help to help you.
There are almost none crypto lawyers yet, too soon to be profitable to specialize in that.

If Bitcoin is legal in your country then you will no longer need a lawyer to help you but you will just go directly to the authorities because the government is oblige to help their citizens as we are all paying Bitcoin tax for them so that we will be protected from any crypto currencies concern therefore rest assured that you will not be alone of this type of trouble against poloniex exchanges.

Unless you are a citizen from The USA, the SEC is not going to help you with anything since outside the country it has no power. You should better look for someone from your country or the country where the company is located but not the SEC. Ans since Poloniex is located in the Delaware state... good luck. Btw, the office is a virtual office so in case you wanted to give it a visit, you won't find anyone to talk with

Poloniex is a Massachusetts based company and if my intuition is correct, you may be facing issues with identity verification and your funds are locked out due to this reason. SEC won't help because it is sEC who imposed such regulations on every US based crypto exchanges!

You don't need a crypto lawyer. Go to any lawyar and create a charge of "unlawful confiscation of property/security" against them. That will do!

However, if you need some legal help and looking for an expert in crypto matter, get in touch with Cryptokanoon group. It is an India based crypto lawyer group who can at least help you to build the charge. Their email id is "contact@cryptokanoon.com".

Hope this helps!

What lawyer you need, if you have a lawyer how they will answer it.
I think you should ask Poloniex if you have a complaint, don't bring a lawyer.

I think there will not be of much help with the lawyer. The entire crypto world is anonymous. Poloniex is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange platform .So try to hire a lawyer from there who knows local rules or familiar with US judiciary systems. Hiring a lawyer from any other countries wont do any help.

Correct, even hiring up a lawyer that do resides on your place it wont really give any solutions at all and you would just need funds to cope up with the expense you would used up (consultancy+travel etc).
Hiring up a lawyer on where Poloniex is based but expect to ready some funds if you decide to fight of on whats the issue between poloniex and you.

Don't want to knock you down so soon, but you might have signed off your rights simply by using Poloniex, as it implies that you accept and agree to their Terms of Service. I personally think it's unethical and illegal, but apparently, the law allows businesses to ask its customers to waive these rights when they use their services. F'd up, but that's how it is.

If you still want to engage someone, please ensure they see this TOS first: https://poloniex.com/terms/

Specifically, the opening line in upper case: "THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT IMPACT YOUR RIGHTS ABOUT HOW TO RESOLVE DISPUTES."

You know what, rather than looking for a lawyer because from your tone, it sure sounds like you are looking to sue maybe because of the way you have been treated. But the best way is to lay bare what is going on and you might be surprised someone might have gone through the same thing as yours and would be able to advise you accordingly without the need of going through the hassles of lawyers. Except the lawyer is a friend of yours be ready to part away with huge funds under the guise of consultancy fee and hourly billables.

If you're in trouble or being scam you will look for justice and because its anonymous and decentralized, people might think that it will is beyond justice, but because you have right of  personal possession and privacy you have the right to sue every one according to your rights, and you  can find a good lawyer about that but it would entail big money.

Well I think if crypto is legal in your country it might not be hard, but if it isn't perhaps you'd better see some help in the internet that might give you much more information since crypto is also alive in internet. Just tell the situation, because I don't get what your problem is, and how it should be treated.

welcome to newbie here

What is your problem with Poloniex exchange? Did your assets gone? Problem with exchanges are tough because of anonymous transactions that we need  a lot of identifications for a certain claim and i think there is no lawyer that have master the law of Crypto currency by field therefore any lawyer will do. Just choose the best lawyer in the town and they will study your case as long as you have the money for their services.

Looking for a lawyer online will be a big mistake, chances are what you are talking isn't even a lawyer in the first place. If you seek for legal consultation going to what is locally available is the best thing you can do. With claims to Poloniex I don't think that you need a lawyer who has a specialty in the crypto market as you are complaining against a company and all lawyers can handle cases involves with that just as long as you hire someone capable representing you with what you want to do.

I don't know why some people do really ask for help on finding online lawyers which they can eventually seek out locally.If you are on a desperation on looking out for one
would lead out into being scammed as being said you might able to find faked ones. Filing up complaint on poloniex seems like to be a very long process and if op have the money
to fight then its his choice.

If Bitcoin is legal in your country, you will no longer need an attorney to help you, but you will only go directly to the government because the government is obliged to help their citizens because all of us pay. Bitcoin tariffs for them so that we are protected from any crypto currency concerns

What are you talking about? First off if he is on a country that Bitcoin is illegal he can't even seek council of a lawyer for claiming a property that is labeled illegal in their country. It is just an individual problem, why would you involve the government right away. If you are talking about public attorneys yes he can have one, but if you are talking about agencies like the FBI or CIA his complaint will just be put into the trash bin as you are making him ask for help with the wrong department, they won't even take him seriously. Even if we are paying our taxes we should know where to ask for help and not look dumb and go to the government directly.

Wow, problems with Poloniex? :o
I'm really interested in it! I want to know moooooore)))

It's not about finding a lawyer is the issue. The issue is that, do you have the resources and claims to fight them. Although I don't know the claim or damaged they have caused you. Demanding for justice is okay by me, I hope you're financially ready for that

Good luck in your efforts, for me,,, whatever the reason I think that sometimes if more people in crypto, including myself, went to fight some events with the projects that let us down in this space, we would not have so many scammers.

But we are ashamed for joining these projects even though we did nothing wrong, we were lied and tricked,,, and we should have gone to sue people to teach them a lesson and get justice. It is too late for me as I lost all information in my past, but good luck for you.

I know Malcolm Tan is a crypto-based lawyer. You can reach him out in these social media channels.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmtan/ (https://linkedin.com/in/malcolmtan/)
Telegram: https://t.me/MalcolmGravitas (https://t.me/MalcolmGravitas)

Hope this helps you for now. Good luck!

OP, have you, already found, the crypto lawyer you are looking for.

If not yet, you can see some of the topics below, things related to crypto and hired lawyers.

1. Topic: Cryptocurrency Lawyers for hire (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667347.0)
2. Topic: Looking for Crypto Lawyer in Wyoming (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124900.0)
3. Topic: Bitcoin Attorneys Will Answer All Questions (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3202496.0)
4. Topic: Legal Support and Advocacy for Bitcoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145527.0)

I hope you will find the best lawyer for your current problem.
Good luck.

It depend of cash amount you whant to withdraw

small or big amounts of cash , would that matter  ? to me  it does matter before but now i realized that both of them are still money  and its our right to complain for whatever restriction they have done to our accounts  .

this isnt the first time i saw someone that are looking for lawyers but most of the times there are post like this on the gambling section  . so probably lawyers already learned crypto so that they can relate on here  . this could help https://gordonlawltd.com/cryptocurrency-law/

Most of the people around the world need of the lawyers advice to secure their assets.This problems was occur with the people,where cryptocurrency was a taxable one.The crypto currency taxation was the new way of taxation was imposed by the government now a days.Many developing country government was started to impose more tax on the traders now.Now crypto market already trouble the people,this taxation was a double burden.

Not totally a double burden unless if you do touch up centralized platforms or services then you would definitely be having that taxation problem specially if the government where you do live will really be serious on cracking and tracing down into those people who do get involved with crypto.
@OP, if you do look for a lawyer then you would definitely need to see one locally.Dont ever tend to look online, nothing beats off when you do have some personal or face to face approach on someone
you do really need up.
Knowing that this had to deal with Poloniex, then i highly doubt that there's some lawyer will able to handle out such case or situation.

I'm looking for a lawyer who know about Crypto Market too in Spain.