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Surprise everybody!!  POLO is down again!!!

i think polo is going to be the next biggest fail in crypto world. They are having too much problems and i withdraw all my coins from polo.

Huh... it's working for me.  No doubt, there are and should be concerns about Poloniex but the site seems to be up for me.  I don't have anything on the exchange but if I did I'd move it somewhere more safe.

I have the same opinion with you, I think the bittrex will replace the position of the poloniex since the service of the poloniex is worse and it is very hard for new coins to be listed .

This is problem with polo is becoming more frequent. I have trust with poloniex but i too withdraw my coins from them. it is better to be safe than sorry in the future. I hope they solve this and not become a reason for the drop of bitcoin price in the future.

Wow looks the polo has a lot of problems. But i already withdraw all of my funds from them in the previous month. But my suggestion just tries to withdraw all of your amounts from them. It can't be considered as a safe place right now. My friend's withdraw didn'[t get approval by them.

I'm glad I withdrew all my coinage from them the other day!!  This is becoming too frequent, POLO should do a better job letting people know what their issue is so that way people don't get paranoid if its just a minor issue.  Silence is making things seem bad!!! ;D

mybee poloniex DDOS again

Dear friend
I just login my Acc, is ok! No problem!

I don't like polo customer support ,even worst that yobit support.
Bittrex soon will replace poloniex.

POLO is back up as of now!!  But what is the deal with it being down so frequently lately!!  I'd be pissed if I was trying to move coinage around but missed out on opportunities because they are having issues!!  I really liked their Stop buy/sell feature.  I wish bittrex had the same feature!!

Poloniex just got attack Ddos from hacker in short time, don't worry about this issue.


I think Poloniex still better than Bittrex about maintain their sever under Ddos, if you use Bittrex in long time, you will understand if Bittrex receive a huge user online or DDOS attack, they will close their exchange in 3-5 hours as Bitcoin Cash in past days.

Do yourself a favor and leave Polo.

I'm all bittrex now except from cryptopia for some alts.

if there is exchange down many times when btc is up, just remember mt gox tragedy, take all of ur coin from there put it in your own wallet,

They used to be great but they have taken a huge hit. I don't even use it anymore. Bittrex has been great for me from the begining and that's the only exchange I prefer. They're quick to resolve issues.

 Been waiting for lvl 2 verif for 5 months now :o

Im taking my funds off that site.

Same here. Been waiting for almost 3 months now.

I've moved all my coins to wallets instead and in future will use bittrex instead.

I moved to bittrex, best move ever !

i know that polo is short on support as i remember my withdrawal takes 2 weeks before it process out.

Already on Bitttrex & out of Poloniex, so no worries mate  :)

Trex here for a while already, seems like a lot of people are "moving".

If this has merely been a DDOS they succeeded in killing not only the servers but also the reputation.
Everybody and their uncle withdrawn their funds, and if that wasn't for august 1st it was at least for security concerns.

To repair that Poloniex would need to 1) re-establish the Trollbox 2) adapt the newest topmost coins 3) offer 99% uptime for next 6 monthes 4) haul up that backlog on customer's complaints. This is next to impossible.


Aww come on, nobody can beat Yobit at that. They are industry leaders on some regards.

edit: the public API endpoints are clickable, so site seems kinda to be up still. maybe the front interface suffers.

There are some issues with Polo from long time,hacked,i dont believe ddos may hurt polo for such long time,exchanges are experiencing ddos but thay are able to overcomefast

Many people will get angry in here. Polo's just being trusted by many people because they have the supply of coins, they have many, literally. I agree to your statement that this would be the biggest fail in crypto world. But how can you withdraw all your coins when the exchanger close :(. This is so sad right?

Poloniex is a trusted exchange site but must better if we have some alternative exchange site to  choose also.

Withdraw all of your coins asap. They have been down three times in the past three weeks.
Sorry, but I lost too much money getting scammed from exchanges and I do not trust them anymore.
If you withdraw your coins now you will thank me in the future.

Just use both exchanges. I have almost zero worries about funds on either. But best to split between them and also coinbase.. kraken... gemini.

The problem with Bittrex is they don't have trading tiers. Let's just say my fees at Bittrex would be vastly higher.
I will try to talk to them about this.

On Polo's downtime :

I think that they are very very careful about security on their backend. Due to this they don't have things running in a more advanced fashion as some other sites. They use older code (for lack of a better term). Safer but exposes them to downtime. This increases safety of our funds but creates downtime issues with database quirks and what not. I think they might have to make the jump and give in to a more advanced backend.

The other downtime issue is the DDoS attacks. Which there is not much they can do about in some cases other than mitigate.
Expect DDoS against Bittrex as they grow. This is nothing new at all.

Polo has been running pretty well for me today.

Last time I waited days for a 0.02BTC withdrawal was with Cryptsy. At least I could withdraw everything from Cryptsy before they went *poof*...
Poloniex "withdraw approval" smells very similar to Cryptsys "no-trade-fee-but-huge-withdraw-fee". Poloniex says it takes only 24hrs to approve it, but then they don't say when these 24hrs are  :P

Is poloniex going to be a scam site? Do i have to pullout my investment here? Or is it still safe? Thank u

As usual, Polo support has no idea what's going on and they'll repeat the same old shit, that is "Thank you for your patience" while we look into that.

Polo is doing fine on me. I think same situation before.  Big exchanges like Polo are target of this attack and they should be prepared of this kind of situation and even having a mitigating plan on hand. Hope all is well  with Polo.

my session always expired when i logged in, why? can anyone tell me??

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2067487.msg0#quickreply


oh god, i hope not!
i once was hoping bittrex becomes bigger and replace poloniex but looking back at how poloniex used to be, how good it was, how responsive and respective they were towards their users and how smooth and problem-free it used to be i regret hoping the same fate for bittrex!

of course it is different people with different service and may act very differently but it is the human nature and it happened too many times so far with so many different services that when they got big they started not-caring and becoming a crappy service just making millions daily...

I really hope Poloniex wont be tag as one of those scam exchange site, I still have a couple of altcoins left in that site though it is not a huge amount but if it is converted to our country's fiat it can help.

They start out like that when they are small, but when they get bigger they seem to get an attitude.

Money changes everything and their confidence do really leveled up since its one of the most reputable exchange site because of the good service they did when they are just started and building up the trust and good service throughout the years and now they are starting to fade.Well nothing on this world would remain on the top spot there would really be a time poloniex would really be replaced for sure.