No, I log into the account from time to time, I haven't made a deposit for about two months, but everything is done through a dedicated IP, saving cookies, a clean operating system and a browser that I only use to access that account, so it's not a security problem.

Unfortunately, they did. It's not 1000 lifetime limit, but almost since the beginning of this year^*, because I deposited $50 after seeing that notice, and it was immediately frozen, knowing that I had not used that account during the past two months.

Read ----> OKX frozen my account and required me to KYC with a less than $1,000 deposit

* Maybe more 

Today, after seeing the news that the OKX platform requires KYC, I logged into my account, and from there a small notice appeared to me that there are limits of $ 1000 (lifetime) for deposits and withdrawals, so I decided to deposit $50 to try it for the last time. After deposits, they directly frozen my account and asked to verify ID/selfie before doing anything.

Therefore, if you see a $1,000 limit notice, avoid depositing if you do not intend to complete KYC.
Unfortunately, after all this time, this was the end of my experience with OKX.

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Currently, I do not have a way to withdraw that 50 dollars. I thought of withdrawing it via internal exchange. I do not know if it will succeed, but if there is someone who has a verified account, please PM me with his sub-account and I will try to send it to him.

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EDIT: here is the answer from technical support:

If the number of pages in this topic is many (more than 100 responses), it will often take a long time to verify you are not a bot, especially if you are browsing using Tor. For such tasks, I use https://ninjastic.space/search. All you have to do is paste topic ID in and leave The rest of the options are empty and you will get what you want.
Recently Cloudflare bugs have increased and in general they don't like someone trying to browse using Tor.

To learn how to post in the correct board, you need to spend some time here, and therefore we cannot blame beginners for that, and without a welcome message^[1], even if you create a topic and install it in all boards, beginners may not be able to notice it.
All are things that managers can deal with easily, but these solutions remain useless without applying them within the welcome message.
For example, there are a lot of explanations at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help, but I don't expect anyone to click on them.

[1] Writing a welcome message

There is no link between the two news, and if you find a link, it is the diligence of the journalist, as they are two hot news now and they are being circulated, so I linked them to each other so that there would be a third hot news, but in fact, Bitcoin Cash is in its last days, there is no development, there are no future plans, there are no solutions to their problems and more Many investors avoid investing in it because it is a failed investment.

We cannot treat Bitcoin Cash as more than a pump-and-dump currency that some try to use and pump its price in the hope that some investments will come that will enable them to fill their pockets for the last time.

Was the withdrawal amount large or not compatible with the traditional withdrawal processes, because sometimes the bank may have requested those data from the platform, and therefore they asked you for it.

They won't ask you for this data all of a sudden something happened that made their systems increase the level of risk on your account.

Unfortunately, CEXs have started asking for a lot of data recently. In the past, photocopying passports and any home bill was enough to prove your identity. Now you need to create a video and verify a lot of things. So if the amount of trading you do is a little, I suggest you start experimenting with bisq or any DEXs, otherwise you have to be Ready for any data that may be asked of you.

self-moderated is necessary for anyone who wants to reduce spam or try to prevent an individual from discussing a topic he created, but it may be misused in some boards by scammers, I remember several years ago it was the preferred method for scammers  as they create these topics with links to auto-sell link, spam topic with has a lot of false responses and deletes everyone who tries to point out because this topic is scam -----> Avoid auto-buy links, mainly locked or self-moderated. Register before dealing
Now this problem is solved by trust flags^[1] so there is no reason to ban self-moderated topics.


[1] Overview of the trust flags

The basic idea of ​​Bitcoin is to break the need to trust a third party to transfer money to you, and these things will only be known to someone who was in a country with economic problems. Venezuela and Lebanon^[1], for example, are countries where individuals are not able to withdraw their money from the bank, and there are restrictions on withdrawals. We can draw on the recent bank crisis in the United States^[2], which made the Federal Insurance Corporation insure deposits of depositors below a certain level.
These topics apply directly because do not trust the bank.

Also, if we take what happened in Iran, Russia and some countries that have imposed a ban on financial transfers, Bitcoin is decentralized so that you can send money anywhere in the world with fees close to zero.

All of these are convincing and logical reasons and arguments that can be inferred to define Bitcoin more than the partial price or that it is an investment that will achieve a return quickly and profitably.



[1] Lebanese cannot access money in banks since late 2019
[2] 2023 banking crisis

If you bring them a police report, they may do so. Banks do this at the request of the court, so everything is possible based on your country.
Nevertheless, I agree with you that the options are limited. If he wants to know his identity, I think that is possible. Even the forum has a special section for investigations ----> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=227.0, and we have precedents in the case of @Yogg^[1][2].

@Yogg was active at collectibles board

[1] Lawsuit against yogg (patrick)
[2] Let's sue Yogg in France

When USDT has depeg quite a deep, the lowest recorded price was at the beginning of the currency in 2015, and then $0.92 was recorded as the lowest price during the past years.



It is true that USDT does not have assets that cover the costs of stabilizing the currency, but there is a lot of liquidity and there is confidence in them, since the currency has not yet detached from it, and this thing can happen at any time.
The risks of stable currencies lie not only in losing their value, but also in their centralization. These currencies can be frozen even if they are in your wallet.
source ---> PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets

The estimates you mentioned are very exaggerated, and the closest to accuracy is that the trading volume was 9.5 million, i.e. the total transactions processed by Silkroad, and 9.5 million dollars, not Bitcoin, but it is impossible for their wallet to contain more than a million dollars.
In general, the story is very old, and most of the responses here are for people who created accounts after the year 2014, so we will not know what was happening at that time, and all we can tell you is what everyone can find from searching in Google or news sites.

This story no longer resonates and I rarely find analytics linking bitcoin to the dark web or drug trafficking, or at least not as much as I did when I joined the forum in 2017.

The reason may be that it has turned from a currency that follows cycles into a pump/dump coin. If this is true, then it is likely that the current rise is confirmation of the death of this currency, as most of them do not return to rise again, regardless of price cycles or market trends.
The rise and peak that occurred in the year 2017 was due to speculation and the lack of alternatives with a large injection of liquidity into that currency and spamming the Bitcoin network in hopes of making it an acceptable alternative. Remember at that time that the individual had to pay $50 as a transaction fee. things changed a lot from that time.
In general, in any case, there are enough negative indicators to avoid investing in that currency, and therefore do not try to catch a speeding train.

The problem lies with beginners or guests who use the forum for the first time. When they visit the forum, they will not be able to know how to search and use this script, and therefore they may ignore the information contained in that thread and search for another place to get answers.

I hope to find a solution to this problem, as most of us may have known the forum for the first time when we was looking for a solution to a problem.

I'm sorry for your loss and I hope you can get your money back, but why did you trust this account or at least I should have asked the members who had previous transactions with it in the collectibles section to give you more information about him.

Post his address here we might be able to find out more details, BSC is central and he may complete KYC there.

FLAG supported.

AFAIK, they did according to requests from users, and if my memory does not fail me, there is an account that was deleted by admins sometime between 2019 to 2021.

If you log out from any device, all devices will be automatically logged out.

Since you provide a service that helps people build high-performance, scalable platforms, why would Average Joe want to develop their own platform? Most of us trade in the range of $2,000 per week, and the majority trade in the range of $10,000 per week. Even for those who want to develop platforms, there are peer-to-peer platforms that provide the user with all solutions, and he only has to, as an end user, be interested in promoting and increasing his trust rate. Why would he go into a spiral to create a platform completely from scratch, or pay a developer and a service to do so and evolve and take all the risks instead of using the current options and even some of them are open source?

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As an article, your writing of the article is good and you covered important key points.

What bridges do now is not cross-chain swaps, but rather centralized smart contracts where you deposit in a specific blockchain and inside the bridge your deposit is locked and encapsulated as a Wtoken like WBTC in another blockchain and so on, when you withdraw the bridge unwrappes these tokens.
The mechanism is good and takes place without central database, but it is centralized and needs a pool to ensure the availability of liquidity. Hence, we hear the term “hacking bridges” and we have not heard the term “hacking the blockchain”, which will not happen if the platform is cross-chain swaps.

No, according to my experience with binance, if you mistakenly deposited to one of your old addresses, you can only withdraw those deposits, you will not be able to place buy/sell orders.


There is another experience after 1 year that I mistakenly deposited to that address, but it seems that I did not create a topic about it (or did not search my posts correctly)
The date of that post was 2022, that is, a long time after KYC was compulsory.

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This part seems contradictory to me and may cause some legal problems for them.

you won't be able to withdraw your coins if you deposited by mistake to an old Kucoin address or will it not appear as a balance?
If they accept deposits to old address and request KYC for withdrawals, then this will look different than: