I can't say that I'm a huge fan of your UI. You should always put your charts on the front page as well as your orderbook so that people don't need to click to get that information. Also my computer was a bit laggy just clicking through the pages, I don't know if it's your website that's causing it but it's not laggy for any other sites and I think it's the video playing in the background that's the reason.

The advantages that you listed aren't really advantages at all, they are pretty much all already implemented in other exchanges. Also, 5 confirmations on a bitcoin deposit before it can be credited to one's account is definitely not considered to be fast. I'm pretty sure that Bittrex requires only 2 or 3 and poloniex the same amount.

Also I see that all of the coins that you list are pretty much all very small in market cap. You should consider adding more mainstream coins as well, for example, ETH isn't even listed.

You'll also need to gain the trust of users which is not an easy task. With all the debacles surrounding exchanges at the moment, people aren't that fond of using new exchanges they don't know of when their usual exchange isn't even reliable.

You should be able to recover it, technically. But it's really up to Boussac and his integrity.

But all in all, he should provide you at least with a reply and a justified explanation if he declines to give you back your funds. But what he said was that as long as your balance is under 50 BTC which yours was comfortably under you should be able to receive a refund. The only thing that may be an issue is that he mentioned "in the first 90 days" claims are used to populate a form, and it's clearly been way past that stage. Again, he should at least give you a response so that you don't need to waste more time on this.


You should PM him as well as emailing him. He has been online for sure though. Not sure what he's doing or if he's just ignoring you.

I doubt that he's trying to waste anyone's time but for sure he should include some proof. Just wait for him to get home, get all his proof out, and we'll see what's really going on and whether Coinman should be tagged.


So did you successfully charge back with your paypal transaction? Did coinman ever respond to your messages and did he specifically say that he didn't have any bitcoins?

It is suspicious that coinman has been online around 8 hours ago but haven't replied to this thread at least with his end of the story. OP, once you provide the needed proofs, then you could potentially prevent people from getting scammed in the future.

EDIT: Based on the proofs that you have uploaded it seems like Coinman was probably out of BTC for sure. Localbitcoins withdrawals rarely take more than 10 minutes to process, and they are not able to be cancelled, so if he did actually send you BTC he wouldn't be willing to refund you. So there are definitely holes in his story imo.

BTW, 22% for paypal is an extremely high amount. I'd call that a rip off for sure.

Wow, that's crazy.

Coinpayments is most likely not going to respond to your thread here or even notice it. But you could reach them through their support ticket system: https://www.coinpayments.net/supwiz. Though it's clearly stated that there will be no refunds, you could potentially get the merchant's account suspended by providing proof of him just scamming you without any remorse.

But remember, if you want to order merchandise like this, either do so with a well known site, pay via paypal, or deal with escrow if possible. Paying via an autobuy link or paying via Bitpay/coinpayments offer no more protection since they are non-refundable. Prevention is always better than a cure.

You should get the attention of coinpayments so that they can potentially freeze his account before he scams any more people.

Also you should have used paypal to pay in this case since it is an accepted payment method. If you pay by paypal for goods and services, then you have a chance of recovering your funds if nothing is sent to you. Sellers don't usually accept it with crypto but this person surely does.

I don't get why all of a sudden he would say "F*** off with your fraud", though. Did you do anything before he said that? I mean as far as i know, your LTC transaction is confirmed and there is no way that you could be the scammer here. If he doesn't ship the order within 2-5 business days like he promises to, then he is the real fraud.

Good luck, but these small crypto sites that have no public advertisement is hard to trust these days.

Not necessarily bad news.

We don't know yet what they are actually going to come out with to regulate bitcoin and other cryptos, so it's currently purely speculation. It could be just an extension of what most countries are already doing into other countries.

I still don't get why people panic so much over basically nothing. Traders seem to dread regulation and every time a new regulation comes out, the price takes a hit. People should start realizing that bitcoin will exist and can be traded no matter how strict regulations become.

It will touch $1 trillion eventually because bitcoin is disinflationary, and fiat is ever depreciating in value. That gives you a simple equation, especially when taken into consideration that the number of crypto adopters is only projected to go up over the next few years.

I wouldn't say that it will happen this year, however.

I really doubt that we'll even see $15k hit this year by the looks of it. It's way too brave of a prediction to make on BTC prices hitting $60+k when we are not even at the $10k level. It's just not happening even in the best scenario I can imagine for BTC this year, which is stabilizing above $10k. 2018 isn't expected to make much gains in the first place seeing how crazy 2017 was, and a correction was obviously needed to build a bottom.

It's like saying "internet is the main transmission media for child pornography, therefore we should outlaw the internet/the internet is harmful for everyone".

I know anecdotally that the vast majority of bitcoin users do not even care about what is embedded in the bitcoin blockchain, let alone try to seek out anything illegal from the blockchain. And this isn't even new news, it's been discussed before. Plus, no pictures are actually stored on the blockchain. That would take up megabytes, which is just way too expensive.

So yeah, I'd say it's completely FUD to try to deter people from investing and buying BTC for... Absolutely no reason at all.

Will this affect price? I doubt it. It really do. The bitcoin community has moved past a point where it is immature enough to believe in such sort of FUD. But it does seem like someone is trying to manipulate the markets here.

Would like to see some payment proofs. Which payment method did you pay by? If he doesn't pay you the BTC, you may be able to launch a case with the payment processor to reverse the funds back into your account.

But first, let's look at what he's got to say on this. He hasn't responded yet, you may want to PM him to notify him that this scam accusation is up. He was online earlier today though. BTW, the thread that you linked to was posted in Feb, did you send him the payment in February?

It would be quite strange for an exchanger with a decent history like his to waste away his entire reputation for $115. Pretty sure I saw some bigger deals happen. But this is why escrow is always the optimal choice, you don't have to deal with situations like this where he's got the money and you've got nothing that you came for. Hopefully he has the integrity to solve this issue.

So you requested 2 withdrawals: one 4 BTC and other one is 30 BTC, right? Sorry I can't read the Russian in the screenshot photo that you provided.

You should talk to Stunna, PM him on forum. See what he can do on the situation. Most of the time I think he'll be able to at least give you an explanation as to why there has been such a delay, and getting the admin involved in such a big withdrawal could help as well.

I'm sure they're not holding withdrawals for no reason. But 1 month is definitely a very long time to be waiting.

Would like to see Stunna/Edward respond to this thread.

Thread is actually here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?;topic=3179886;msg=32931376.

But it's clear as hell that it's a scam. Nobody sells legit amazon gift cards for 35% its face value. Just way too good a deal to be true. Of course, he is also using an autobuy link which will not give you refunds and you'll have to trust the seller 100% without any escrow protection. And in classic fashion he has locked the thread so that nobody can expose him.

TBH, autobuy links should be banned, or at least not allowed to be used in conjunction with a locked thread. A lot of newbies fall for these scams.

You actually can't withdraw crypto from eToro and yet they market themselves as a crypto exchange. That makes no sense. You're actually just trading bitcoin derivatives without them having any reserves.

How you could proceed is up to you. But I would just keep sending emails to make them know you're not giving up on the case until you actually get your withdrawal. Include in your emails/tickets the withdrawal confirmation as well.

Other than that, you just have to wait. That's why I hate platforms which is not specifically trading crypto but other financial instruments as well. They deal with the banking system way too much and it doesn't end well or efficiently most of the time.

If the withdrawals take so long, they may actually be insolvent. That can't be proven, but you should definitely stop using eToro.

Well, that's bad news for Binance for sure. Last thing you'd want as a growing exchange to have all of a sudden the country with one of the top BTC trading volumes in the entire world to tell you to cease operations.

However, I would not panic yet. Realistically I think most of the volume in Japan is probably in Bitflyer anyways, and people who use binance are more scattered over the world. There will be Japanese users that will be forced to stop using it, but I don't think it's a large percentage compared to the entire Binance customer base(correct me if I'm wrong).


Absolutely. Binance is known for its soft KYC which is why it's so popular. I think sooner or later, they will be forced to comply with regulations. Just a matter of time.

Yobit has come to a point where the customer support is still disgustingly bad and people are still using them. For sure, I would say that they are a complete scam. The admin is completely anonymous and it is unclear whether they are actually a compliant exchange/regulated exchange.

If you have any sort of problems you do not have anyone to talk to. And the whole system is buggy as hell with problems all over.


This is not legit. It's a common scam. Look at any of yobit's posts on twitter and in the comments there will be one person saying that yobit is giving away ETH and you need to send ETH to their address to claim it. e.g. https://twitter.com/YobitExchange/status/971070894583046144

All of them are scammers, please don't fall for it, it's not associated with yobit.net. Scammers just using their name.

Well, if they deem your coin to be unsuitable, there is really nothing you can do.

Well, other than continue to send them emails or messages on site about the listing, including proof that you have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of volume already on exchanges/p2p exchange groups.

Try to get your coin listed on alternative sites as well, coinmarketcap isn't the only one out there. A lot of sites may be more lenient with their listings when compared to coinmarketcap.

If coinmarketcap decides in the end even with all the proof that they don't want to list it, there is nothing you can do. They are a private business, they can make their decisions freely.

I completely lost it at this. Are we still living in the days where there is only mail and internet wasn't a thing yet? Oh wait, even back then bank transfers wouldn't take 60 banking days to complete! You could probably take a cruise and go around the entire world in 60 days.

International SWIFT transfers will take up to only 3 days at max. SEPA transfers take 2 days at max.

What transfers are you using, CEX?

If your banking partners are not even competent enough to process a normal transaction within 2 weeks, then you should probably just stop contacting them altogether.

At least you're realizing that you made a mistake and is actively trying to make amends.

That is great. But I don't think that it's your fault that you got scammed. It's just that you could have avoided the scam by some simple research. But don't worry, you'll remember in the future because of this mistake.

BTW, could you tell us the name of the site/screenshots of the telegram page that you were talking about that was posing as the official telegram ICO? That could potentially stop other people in the future from getting scammed by the same con artist.

There's actually been a ton of people scammed in the same way ever since telegram ICO was announced and phishing sites/fake ICO groups popped up all over.

Yeah, that was January and it's already March. That's long enough to demand a reply for sure. You should open a new ticket again for sure and hopefully they can attend to this matter as soon as possible.

Missing deposits seem to be pretty common with poloniex. But you have proof that the deposit address works with your second deposit of 20~ USDT which went through without any problems. That should simplify the process of solving this.

But first, poloniex needs to respond to you and that's what's not happening. You really only have the option of waiting and opening new tickets once in a while. Their support consistently this bad, which is the reason why I've stopped using them ages ago.

I would not recommend to you any cloud mining services. They are either scams, insolvent, or it's not going to produce you any extra profits in the long run of investing compared to just holding your cryptocurrencies that you were going to put into those cloud mining contracts.

It's an industry that is filled with scammers and is shady.

The site that you showed is probably a scam. I have personally never seen it before, but just clicking on it and seeing the home page I can see that it's probably created for the sole purpose of ripping people off. They have no proof of mining and have investment "plans" which is extremely shady.

Stay away from that site, and cloud mining in general.

Yeah, it's strange that they're requesting this.

The only recent change that I could think of was that you needed to be verified in order for you to actually advertise on localbitcoins, which was fair enough. But you could still deposit and withdraw funds from your account as usual without any verification or respond to other people's advertisements without verification. So OP's problems are clearly different to this.

I would personally trust LBC with my information, but I would ask them to delete it once it fuliflls their needs of KYC/AML. But I would definitely try to ask for the specific reason why they have requested all of a sudden for these ID docs. But if KYC/AML is in their policy it's hard to dispute it or try to not comply with them. They may just be trying to keep their platform clean without scammers.