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hitbtc exchange didn't allow users to transfer or withdrwal #ICX icon for me about 4 months and for some other users more than a year.
and they even didn't announce about that to warn the users not to transfer between trading wallet and main wallet, they just keep it that way for years to get more users into these troubles

#hitbtc

Have you tried asking customer support ?
if yess , what are the answers from customer support ?
please explain here in detail for our learning.

Hey there, might want to check this. Perhaps this is why.

https://i.postimg.cc/YqCSrKy3/IMG-20191119-172002.jpg

Afaik, whenever hitbtc have upcoming coin swap or maintenance on wallet, they always have this on the dashboard as so the users can see this. Idk why you failed to see this.

I remember, like 2 years ago I was forced to pay a very high transaction fee (much higher than it should be) to withdraw my coins from this site and since then I stop using this exchange. It is nothing new though, I don't know there is something error or what.

Try to reach the customer support, raise a ticket and if your issue isn't solved yet then you can create a scam accusation thread

being forced by who ? and how did you know that your being forced ? afaik , hitbtc had already have a high transaction fee becuase i also used that exchange before but like you , i also stop using them and use other exchanges and found out that other good exchange and leading exchanges have a lower fees that hitbtc  but about the locking of tokens  , i havent experience any of those before  . it maybe that they see a strange activity on the op's account thats why they limit it .

There is no doubt that it is one of shadiest exchange but lot of other exchanges also have this issue they will say wallet is under maintenance for months and years and we may get no information about when we will get the wallet back.But I guess you can still trade that coin so convert it into as BTC or other coins which can be withdrawn from the exchange.

Op you probably miss this message from them. I don't use the exchange as it has been given with several unfavorable reviews but as for checking it right now there are active trades on its pair. Is the swap/maintenance done?

https://hitbtc.com/exchange/ICX-to-BTC

This must have been the valid reason why. But I wonder why the OP is saying that he cannot withdraw or transfer his ICX tokens for about four months already. I doubt if the maintenance or token swap will last that long. The OP is even saying that there are also other users who cannot do withdrawals and transfers of ICX funs for more than a year already.

Like I mentioned earlier these kind of things will happen on the shady exchange,they don't even give any announcement before a wallet goes into maintenance and also there will be no information when the wallet will be back so its more like exit scam.I wonders why people using these exchanges when they have shaddiest behaviour from the past to present.

Hitbtc has their flat rate of 0.0005btc and it's quite high compare to the others 0.0001 and before I really don't mind the fee from what I am earning but now, omg it feels like I'm being robbed hahaha!

Back to the OP, hopefully he could clarify in detailed information what had happened and show some proof.

As far as my personal experiences are concerned, I took the risk of opening an account with HitBTC because some of my coins are listed there. While others are also listed on other exchanges at the same time, the volume in HitBTC on those coins are much higher than in others. I am still using HitBTC every now and then and so far I have not been a victim of their shady behavior.

It is not the exchange I'd be wary about but the wallets in question. In general even the big exchanges like Bittrex always give problems with some of these smaller projects. I remember Bittrex freezing my wallets in some alts a while back for months, not allowing withdrawal or trading. When they finally released it, the pairs were all removed, forcing you to withdraw or get nothing if they get delisted. Tough but that's what happens with alts.

Why you stay at HiTBTC? the coin you are planning to exchange or transfer is listed on other well-known exchanges like Binance.
And I heard many bad things about this exchange they called it thieves and scammer.

Here's the list of threads

* HitBTC scam! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2556342.0)
* Explanations of pure scam: 65,000 USD stolen by HitBTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3251481.0)
* HITBTC SCAM 29 BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5050207.0)

That is why I didn't use them even my coins are listed on their exchange.

The system monitor page shows the status of ICX as "investigating". You can check the current status of the specific token/coin via this link: https://hitbtc.com/system-monitor
Check the response of official HitBtc twitter account:


By the way, the ongoing investigation is related to the team and there are accusations against the dump of altcoin by some group of traders according to the twitter crypto accounts. (Not my personal opinion)

People should stop using Hitbtc, they have old issues that they don't want resolve, all those bad reports in the scam sections are still unresolved,
it's only a matter of time before they do an exit scam, the complaints are mounting, and they are losing traders, soon they will scam those traders who choose to stay, so it's a bad idea to still use this exchange.

I have issues on hitbtc before were my withdrawal took 1 week before they processed it. And i promise to myself not to use that exchange again. I even see on twitter that there are also users wgo has the same problem like you.

I haven't heard much about Hitbtc recently, is all the fud gone? the proof of keys fud is over? when we will start to fud this exchange again?

I have remembered that I had used Hitbtc one time. Most likely bought some tokens and hold there. But after sold token when I had been going to withdraw and I were surprised about their withdrawal fee. If you small traders then your all profits likely will have to pay as their fee, lol. Everyone aware about their shady activity but still lots of traders trading there. Anyway they won't disable ICX token without any reason. Seems few folks already show the reason and it's quite reasonable. So you may wait for token swap.

Hitbtc still alive and there is no sign if they will close soon because of FUD or anything you think.

Are you sure hitbtc has 0.0005 btc or 50k sats as withdrawal fees? You can see on this site if HITBTC has 0.0015 btc or equal with $12 https://withdrawalfees.com/exchanges/hitbtc
When i still used them, it was 0.001 btc as withdrawal fees and i can tell you, you won't find any exchange which charged you only 0.0001 btc or 10k sats as their withdrawal fees

The Hitbtc fud was so epic, still cannot believe how they survive proof of keys, the exchange seems to be very liquid, more than binance, actually CMC have them as number one on liquidity what is just amazing

These kind of rumours are spreaded around every places and finally when we people continuously checking for it with the team means we need to see the real proof that tell what is happening on this exchange.  If all fine we can confirm that they cannot give proper service to every people in the marketplace.

Its not a rumor but actually an Exchange issue which isnt surprising in likes of Hitbtc or even Yobit itself. These services does really experience issues but the difference compared on top tier exchange is that they do let those issues remain unresolved which would result into negative impressions to the community and Hitbtc is known to that and even their exchange withdrawal is insanely high.So any further issues that other users might experienced to this exchange is somewhat not already a shocking thing.So its better to stick to exchangers like Binance and other top ones.Im not saying its a guaranteed thing to avoid issues but somewhat the rate of having headaches is less.

I'm not a fan of Hitbtc due their gigantic taxes on withdrawals, especially for more exotic coins/tokens.

But HitBTC is offering one very interesting feature - the System Monitor:

https://hitbtc.com/system-monitor

I'm using it every time to check the wallet health status. ICX is doing a swap.

Rumors is somehow true or not but the point is we need to be smart and clever enough on this kind of disappointed situation. First I don't more about that kind of coin but that kind situation is likely common in which the team suddenly didn't update for their projects in which in the end most users blind for the updates and waiting for nothing.

There's a reason why Hitbtc still exist until now, based on the post above, its very clear that you miss the announcement, and that issue was 4 months ago, so why just post it now, that could have been given a timely action if you share the problem earlier.

I can't say hitbtc is a bad exchange as I am using it from time to time, but not the coins you've mentioned.
I am more on trading with major assets only, like in the top 10.

There are several cases that have discussed about this exchange and also the hitbtc account has been tagged for several reasons you can see it more,

This is hitbtc account link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=194708

And these are several threads who discussed hitbtc exchange,

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5194434.0
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2217068.0
3. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092112.0
4. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122054.0
5. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3251481.0
And more (you can see them at scam accusation board)

this exchanges really charge high fee for each transaction. Its ready a year i leave hitbtc. If my asset or my Bounty reward traded here , personally i am prefer to wait in other exchanges.. Moreover if its value less than $100, maybe my asset value will decrease alot when i i withdraw it.

Is that how the HitBtc exchange costs, how much does it cost to make one withdrawal once? I have never used this exchange but I have a bounty token and want to sell it here but if it is expensive I will not trade on hitbtc.

Your choice though if you can risk to sell out those bounty tokens into that exchange.If its just being listed there then you wont have any choice but to deal with it or just simply wait for another exchanges.

If you are on a hurry then using up Hitbtc isnt really that a total problem yet they are still doing their job.There were only several cases and issue though and also their withdrawal fees specially on btc are way too high
and if your concern is on fee matters then switch up on other alts which do have lesser fee.

Just hope that you withdrawal wont go stuck after your request.

The HITBTC exchange is very blackhearted. When I participated in a transaction, I was afraid that the two-way fee was too high and it was difficult to accept.

it same problem such my problem yesterday. but my problem is clearly, i not verifity my account yet, then i not set google authenticator yet so it make my account freeze. because hitbtc account automatic freeze if you does not use your account for long time. so my advice try to verifity your identity then set your authenticator. if this way can not work you can contact customer support

hitbtc is also a good exchange also ,thats why there are still many people using it. In every exchange we have experience different issue but not all having it ,thats why there are people still trusting that exchange because they do not have any bad experience in that exchange .

I can't say hitbtc is good exchange, what the pros is just have wide variety of coins but instead including shitcoin/shittoken. I think that's why there are still people who use their platform.
Also quite a lot of people complaints about their services, you can read here: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-exchanges/hitbtc-review/

I'm not surprised, I've promised to stop using hitbtc exchange since 2017 when you hold some of my coins for no reason sake and they never get back to me after writing to their email, its a shame that a top rated exchange acts this day, this is one of the reasons why DEX exchanges will make way in future

hitbtc is bad customer support communication, also the BTC withdraw sometimes pending arround some day, i recomended to buy other altcoin ex. NXT, Dogecoin etc to withdraw from Hitbtc.

last news about hitbtc :
HitBTC an Insolvent Scam Operation, Claims Cybercrime Investigator
https://cryptobriefing.com/hitbtc-insolvent-scams-users-cybercrime/

There is no reason to bet on the DEX caused by look at the fact that currently happen in the market. The majority of the DEX has very low volume compared with the CEX. DEX has a really small chance to replace the CEX as the advantage of the CEX is more compared with the DEX. Hitbtc may get some problems on its service but it looks like that the service is running smoothly right now. It's even better than some new exchange sites that are scamming the users.
The volume still gets centralized to the biggest CEX like binance, coinbase and many more.

The widrawal fee of that exchange is the same as other the only problem i experience there is you cant sell all of your coins there still few coins left after you sell it.

I think hitbtc got higher withdrawal fee compare to the other exchange but you will not mind that if you withdraw a huge figure but I totally annoyed to trade with the whole balance since they are not accepting it unless you trade to their required figures. But the one confuse me more is the reports of bad support and I don't want to get a problem that's why I go to top tier exchange when do my trades.