What happened::
Back in December I deposited some BTC into localcoin.is DEX to trade XMR. I went to withdraw 0.73BTC in December and the transaction never broadcast. After 2 weeks @localcoinA on telegram responded saying the Bitcoin node needed a resync after saying "still resyncing" for a further 2-3 weeks @localcoinA finally came clean. Apparently his exchange is insolvent and he doesn't have the BTC to send me anymore. Instead and without my permission he issued me with 13,000 LLC tokens and said if I help him they will be worth something. They are currently worthless.

After days of telegram chats he is refusing to return my funds. I am making this post in the hope that it saves someone from losing their funds too.

I know it was stupid of me to deposit into an unknown exchange but I got greedy because there were (probably fake) good trading opportunities.

The whitepaper list a bunch of people from a web dev company called nineseven (nineseven.by). The main person listed is Dmitry Khorushko. I spoke to him and he denies any involvement apart from being contracted to develop the localcoin.is exchange. He claims some anonymous person who goes by "Fluke Hawkins" is the person behind it and the person in control of the wallet/gateway. I am incredibly skeptical of this claim and I do believe there is a chance that Dmitry Khorushko is simply using this so called anonymous person as a front. This is despite his company github account making a commit on the localcoin.is github project as recently as 10 days ago.

I have attached some chat logs below, it's only partial because I have been mostly talking to myself for days. They are definitely worth a read, at one stage he whinges about "centralised" exchanges scamming people, the irony of someone saying that to a customer that they are currently in the process of scamming.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2556732

Reference Link: localcoin.is DEX
Amount Scammed: 0.73BTC
Payment Method: BTC

PM/Chat Logs: https://imgur.com/a/ZfIWAcF

No właśnie, oscylatory sobie, a cena sobie i niestety w takich momentach trzeba korzystać z doświadczenia, a co najważniejsze grać z trendem, a nie próbować szortować, bo przecież powinno zacząć "korekcić", bo wskaźniki tak wskazują.

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Without wantig to repeat myself I have to quote myself now, I posted the following only the day before yesterday:


To sum it up:
Apart from confirming that Shelley is finally getting started, the development of Daedalus 1.0 now also shows that all the promises Charles made with "we develop our software on an extremely high level", "our software development process allows us to release high quality features in an extremely short time", ... is actually true. Since the launch of Daedalus-Flight 25 days ago, a total of 6 major and extensive updates have been released, the features and new versions have been very well received in the community, there have been exceptionally few problems with them. In addition, external reviews of the software (including security tests) were conducted, which give the software a very high level of maturity. A clean and stable software allows the team to develop new features and release them with high quality much faster. The audit was conducted by Root9B among others and was already made available to the public.

So the release of Daedalus has above all a symbolic value and shows that Cardano is actually capable of building and releasing the software they have been talking about for years.

First of all, thanks for the feedback, I'm not used to get feedback in the Altcoin section of the forum
However, I don't share the opinion that the sudden increase has nothing to do with the release of the video. Just have a look at the following chart:



Late in the evening on the 23rd the video was released, immediately after that the price jumped. In comparison, here is the Tezos chart, where the price increase is much smoother:



That the price increase coincides exactly with the release of the video and still is a coincidence can be natural, I hardly believe it. If I am right, I am very curious how the upcoming releases will affect the price and if you will see similar increases.

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The Cardano competitors all have the same or at least similar problems: severe delays of their roadmaps (see for example the roadmap of ETH where ETH wanted to be at the end of 2019). However, it is generally not so unusual for software projects to be delayed.
Cardano wants a lot at once, that is true. In the meantime they have managed to set themselves apart, at least their roadmap is now very clearly structured and you can see when you can expect what. Here is the link to it.

The release of the shelley-testnet at the end of 2019 was a big step forward. The testnet is also used quite intensively, according to Charles 18.000 people/wallets have already delegated their ADA and several thousand sake pools are running.

We don't know what price of cardano in the future but if the bull run will happen in the next year, surely the price of cardano would reach $1 price but if not maybe around $0.1 I guess.

Pamiętaj, że prawidłowym potwierdzeniem przełamania trendu, jest jedna cała zielona świeca powyżej linii trendu (cienie się nie liczą), czyli, jak na razie cena BTC walczy i na tym (chyba?) dziennym interwale, trzeba poczekać na potwierdzenie, czyli zamknięcie się tej całej ostatniej świecy powyżej linii trendu i żeby było książkowo, to musi się zamknąć na zielono.

Doradzał bym odczekać, bo tak jak piszesz, to może być pułapka na byki (bull trap) i kiedy, już będzie wystarczająca ilość trejderów po stronie long, ze swoimi lewarowanymi zakładami (margin trading), to cena spadnie, jak kamień, żeby szybko wybić im margin call. Nie wiem czemu tak jest i kto na tym zarabia, ale jest tak niestety i doświadczyłem tego na własnej skórze, już nie raz.

Moja strategia na najbliższe godziny, to spokojnie poczekać, na wyklarowanie się sytuacji i kiedy zobaczę potwierdzone wybicie z trendu górą (break out), to będę LONG, a jak nie, no to oczywiście SHORT.

Po chwili przemyślenia, patrząc dokładnie na rózne wykresy, widzę jeszcze trzecią możliwość, czyli ruch w bok (w okolicach linii trendu). Ostatnio mamy duże niezdecydowanie na rynku i jeżeli nie będzie widocznej przewagi byków, to taki ruch , jest bardzo prawdopodobny, szczególnie, że ostatnio cena BTC, często tak właśnie się poruszała i to przez długie tygodnie. Znakiem ostrzegawczym w tym przypadku, jest dla mnie malejący wolumen. Im niższy wolumen tym słabsze wzrosty i mozliwość spadku ceny.

Jeżeli popatrzymy na cztero godzinny wykres ceny BTC, to widać, że nawet na tym interwale czasowym nie ma jeszcze 100% potwierdzenia przebicia linii trendu i trzeba poczekać na zamknięcie się aktualnej świecy powyżej i na zielono, żeby w ogóle myśleć o kupowaniu.



Dodatkowym potwierdzeniem, są same świece doji, a dokładnie ich kształt. Ładnie widać, że mamy niestety tkzw. "spinning top" na samej górze, co świadczy o niezdecydowaniu.



Sama linia tego trendu nie jest już aż tak ważna i bardziej skupiam się na oporach, które mamy na 7200$ i później 7400$. Jeżeli BTC przebije ten pierwszy, to będę obserwował, jaki jest wolumen i jak silne są byki, bo potrzeba siły, żeby przebić 7400$. Tak jak powyżej, moja strategia, to poczekać i widzę siebie po stronie kupujących dopiero po przebiciu oporu na 7400$ i to z dużą siłą.

This sounded like fun for a minute, but only a minute. once a thinking person puts the numbers to it, it falls apart like a bad ERC20 ICO.

Look for Tati and RaiLai to fill the posts with bullshit and distrcactions while lying about the true nature of the coin.

nobody is interested because its a top down scam with the creator owning all of it and the miners being a bunch of low iq idiots trying to drum up support. but no exchange would ever takes this on because its owned by an anonymous scammer with a shady history. all it can ever do is trade on some bad exchange where there is no volume.

Its a very easy and clear scam. there is 0 interest in the coin so the plan of late has been to pretend there is a community on discord and telegram, that's why all these scammers are pulling you away from here with rewards codes and other nonsense. its truly flawed and a scam and i feel sorry for the few that are so stupid to not be able to see between the lines.

Remove the 3 scammers pumping it and this coin isn't even alive.

To be honest, it's really not good to get in trading if you don't know about trading as it needs a lot of knowledge and information about trading and if you don't have so you will surely lose at the end so instead of loosing and first try to learn the trading skills well and then think about trading people make mistakes as a beginner and it causes them failure in trading so learn properly before trading.