That's the proper way to achieve results. Pressure. Continuous and unabated pressure.

If they refuse to budge, contacting their partners or those who invest in them is another effective method to coerce them to take this matter seriously. I never thought about this angle until you mentioned having contacted Pantera Capital    Good move

I hope they will finally break the silence.

So you sent your coins to strangers. Perfectly untraceable strangers. Location and registration unknown.

Why does it matter where coins come from? Contract wallet or otherwise, they are still coins. This is a redundant feature of this coin. All these contract versus account caveats make trading and investing in it susceptible to costly errors.

Granted you were forewarned about this restriction which seems to be the case in the image link you included above but I still find it hard to understand how those coins are forever lost and why you are being advised to contact the coin developer.

You can use this site to derive your private key from your mnemonic:

https://iancoleman.github.io/

Be sure to use it on a safe computer (safe = offline and preferably your own device).

This is a very helpful tool and if you do it correctly, you can derive the private key for each address in your blockchain wallet.

Hard to trust exchanges these days, even the trusted and reputable ones.

If they won't respond to your countless messages, then they are probably doing some kind of investigation indeed. This is usually the case when authorities are involved. They keep as quiet as a mouse (or are instructed by the authorities to maintain silence) while checks are done. I doubt it's fraud or a scam. This company operates legitimately with almost the same status as a bank in the EU.

If it's not an investigation or if no authorities are involved, then there must be another reason for their silent treatment which you can reasonably suspect as being an internal matter within the company.

If you were trading and moving a lot of money (I mean an amount of truly large proportions) and especially if you were structuring those transactions in certain batched amounts, then yes they might be investigating those individual transactions while also looking at the totality of your trade relationship with them.

One can only speculate. The silence is unnerving while also unsettling as one never knows what they're doing.

I suggest you keep sending them emails on their support system within the account. Doing so will eventually compel them to respond. I use that kind of approach when I am being ignored or if the responses are of the generic template type. If you clog their system with the same messages again and again, this won't escape their attention and they will make an effort to resolve the situation.

Escalating the matter to the financial ombudsman is another option but it's always best to try to resolve the matter internally first. Flood them with messages. It's your money. I hate services which let you beg and plead for your own funds.

Perhaps because there is nothing to escrow? No anonymous bitcoin cards with 2k per day limit and IBAN attached? Pay-and-run works only when people naively send payment upfront.

If he uses escrow, how will he get the bitcoins for these fictitious cards?

So to summarize: He won't send a trial card to a trusted member here. He won't use escrow. Anybody interested must blindly send him money upfront (no questions asked). An Asian card with IBAN (a European account) attached to it. An anonymous card with a $2000 per day limit. The whole offer lacks transparency. How is one assured that the card exists? 

Keep your coins under the mattress (in your own wallets with private keys controlled by you and you alone).

Regulated or not, trusted or not, reputable or not, these exchangers are unpredictable. You send 5 BTC to your exchange wallet.. an hour later they invent and enforce a new withdrawal policy.. and you will be forced to beg and plead for your own coins. You will be ignored, humiliated, investigated, interrogated, questioned about everything from where you got those coins, your great-great-great grandfather's birthday, what you had for breakfast on 2 September 2014 (and if you happen to remember this, they will probe further about the exact time and place), where you were on the night of 9 May 2016 etc etc

Trade small amounts of coins on these exchanges. If they lock your account, it will hurt but at least not as much as when they leave you with just $5 on your debit card for food.

Threads like this are a scammer's playground. They swarm here like bees are attracted to honey (or flies to horse dung would be a more appropriate analogy)

PayPal is risky and very much reversible. Stop using it. It's what scammers use to financially rape their victims online.

Goods and Services.. Friends and Family.. the Queen of England.. the Pope.. it doesn't matter who you receive the money from, PayPal will reverse it if the sender cries fraud.

Do you see the one lonely response to your poll above? That was from me. And I hope it stays at that score.

You have the gall to advertise your own site while lying through your teeth. Deception is just as bad as fraud and it drags down your character with you. I would never buy anything from people who are liars. It's simple: If they can't be trusted in word and character, then their products lose credibility too.

 

Looking forward to your iOS version. Very nice app design. The total portfolio value, nominal and percentile values, the choice of currency... overall this is a beautiful creation. Information is presented in a rich, clear and clean way.

When do you plan to release the iOS app?

How is a HK card rechargerable via an IBAN account? IBAN is exclusively used by European banks.

Why is escrow not an option? Considering the growing interest generated by this card on this thread, it is important to market this card in a safe and proper manner. How can you assure the card holder that you do not have backdoor access to the card's balance?

And the $2000 per day.. is that HKD or USD? Is this a Transforex card? There are only a few prepaid card providers in HK and all of them adhere to and comply strictly with HK's AML/KYC laws. How can you offer these cards with a $2k per diem limit anonymously?

How are they bitcoin-rechargeable? You receive the bitcoins and then do a card to card transfer from your card?

I wouldn't send sensitive documents to unregulated or unlicensed exchangers. Proper exchangers have state of the art privacy and information protection systems in place. Others... well, let's just say you need to be nervous every time you go through passport control at borders and airports. You never know what the immigration officer might see on the computer's screen. If your passport is misused and flagged for criminal activity by Interpol, it will take a lifetime of stress and mental pain to rebuild your life.

What's stopping their document verifiers from selling your documents to people with nefarious intentions? If your docs end up being misused, proving and linking the exchanger to the misuse is difficult. You will be left on your own to defend yourself and this is not easy in a world where bitcoin is often seen as the currency of criminals.

Be careful, guys. When engaging this kind of services, never share your private keys.

This is a new account. If you intend to offer this service legitimately, you should consider escrowing a certain amount of bitcoins with a reputable escrow provider. If you don't agree to this, you must be deranged if you think people will blindly send you their wallet files with 10+ bitcoins on it.

Is there a way to have the fake github removed? This is a pernicious scam and should be removed and contained asap. It's the kind of scam designed to steal a lot of coins.

And this scammer... why is he not red tagged yet? He is so bold and brazen, shamelessly advertising this fake site while condemning the real link.

Why one would use such a notoriously unreliable wallet is beyond me. Fact is: these exchanges hold the private keys and you don't. So effectively, the coins aren't yours. A service which lets you beg and plead with them to access your own coins is a corrupt and broken system.

Only inject enough coins into those exchanges if you can afford to lose them and survive the aftermath of that loss. If you use YoBit not just as a trading wallet but also as your main and only storage wallet, then you are irredeemably lost. Just like people entrusting Coinbase with everything they own.

So.. was I right or was I right?

I posted on your thread yesterday that this PayPal with newbies affair will lead to a disaster. I was already skeptical when I read the "using my mom's paypal.. i'm 17" story.

Trading with newbies with PayPal involved will only lead to headache and stress. It's not worth the meager profit.

Newbies, heed the rules: 1) use escrow and 2) pay with a non-reversible payment method. Do that and watch your reputation grow to a nice healthy green.

As a newbie and this being a brand new account, paying with PayPal for bitcoins here will not be easy. No escrow will mediate a trade like this.

PayPal is a high risk reversible payment method.

And 300 Euros is a lot of money.

This is a fatal flaw of this wallet. A "second password" preventing access to one's assets.

Beware that there is no password reset functionality.

Did you set a password hint?

I use 1Password for password storage and I also keep physical backups (print outs) of the recovery phrase and the private key derived from that phrase.

Your only hope would be doing your best to guess that password. If you know a part of it, then that should be a good start.


 

How much did they pay you to act as a shill or to defend their dishonest practices? Was it high enough for a KFC meal?

Casinos will always find a way to keep coins you inject into their system. It's all about maximizing revenue, even if it means inconveniencing their customers and losing them. As a casino, they are adept in taking risks and are therefore betting, against all odds, that this customer will simply let it go and give up.

No, it's definitely not an exit scam. More like a dishonest strategy or a misused loophole.

This sounds extremely suspect.

Why would your mom allow you to buy bitcoins on her account? So you're saying she just agreed and said yes, go ahead and take money from my credit card, pay for whatever you like on the web. Bitcoins too.

Being a first-poster and newbie, what guarantee can you give that she will not reverse the payment? Why can't you pay using a non-reversible payment method.

You're 17? But your post content seems to suggest you know quite a lot about the ins and outs of paypal technicalities. Funds sent from the balance... only uses "CC" to buy stuff... balance kept for you..

Also I will send as friends and family, we all know chargebacks with those type of payments are basically never chosen to win over a dispute.

You are very wrong about this assumption. This type of payments is perfectly reversible if the account owner claims it was not authorized. Fraud. That 5 letter word will trigger a hold on the payment and eventually a reversal.

Use something safer. Here:

1. Borrow your mom's credit card and get $100 from the ATM or ask her for the cash.
2. Send the money using a non-reversible payment method such as Western Union or Moneygram. Cash basis only. Not the online WU or MG type of payment.
3. Escrowed transaction is a must.