It's good that the Hong Kong government is trying to crack down on this... And make a safer place for traders to trade on.

Obviously if any tokens are classified as unregulated securities then they've got to be taken down. Binance's upgrade that took ages could have been the result of all this new Hong Kong government requirements.

We still don't know what tokens they are talking about here, though.

Pretty much every single ICO token can be classified as a "security", if it represents a share of a network.

Clearly, this profile that you have just created was just a throwaway account.

If you're not going to state your profile links then don't even bother opening this thread, since nobody is going to be able to help you without it.

If you were banned, then it means that you have done something against the forum rules. Read over them carefully and I'm sure you'll find an entry that corresponds with your behavior.

Or if you were asked to send BTC to get your account unlocked, then just do it. There's such a thing called units of evil that you have to pay if your IP has been used previously for evil on the forum.

Yep. When difficulty goes up and prices go down, that's when genesis mining contracts just stop paying out.

Usually, in the first 1-2 months you'll receive ok-ish payouts. If those sort of payouts continue then you think that you could get a ROI and then go into profits within 6-7 months. But then after a few months the payouts will drop to almost nothing.

At the end, you could be looking at a terminated cloud mining contract because your payouts can't even be used to pay maintenance fees anymore. This is why we here tend to shy away from cloud mining and advise others to do so as well.

Any screenshots on what they told you to do and what they responded to you as a result?

I mean there is really nothing they can do as a company if they were a regulated businesses falling under the jurisdiction of a country which provides these ID documents. If they're asking for mining proofs then they have their reasoning, but it's a bit too harsh at least imo.

I doubt reporting them to that site will help. But at least hopefully it'll speed up their communication with you.

Cex.io has been having a lot of problems. Not a good sign.

Fingers crossed as well.

But this, folks, is a great example of why you should never store your funds on an exchange and use it as a wallet. Storing some of your funds on an exchange for the short term is fine, provided that you are willing to take the risks. But storing the majority of your portfolio there is just dumb.

Not only do you have a risk of getting your funds stolen/hacked, in an event of a maintenance just like Binance's current maintenance that has been going on for ages, you are prone to market fluctuation.

It is much more flexible, and safe, to store your funds in a wallet instead of exchange.

As long as you are not abusing the system for your personal gain, then no. There is absolutely no reason why you cannot spend your entire stash of sMerits in one day, or even 1 hour. In fact it probably helps with the merit distribution.

You can merit any post that you see fit to be merited.

But keep in mind that the merit system is completely public so if you are found to be meriting shitposts(not saying that you are or will), then obviously there will be neg trust handed out.

Easiest way would be to get Bitcoin first, and then get Ethereum with your bitcoin.

For this, you pretty much have a range of options. Obviously there is localbitcoins which I'm a big fan of, but there are also fiat exchanges that you can use. Kraken, Bitstamp, etc. In fact they all have ETH listed mostly as well, so you could get your fiat deposited and then get ETH straightaway if you wanted to as well.

For the quickest trade without any verification though, go with localbitcoins. Expect 5-7% above spot price for your fiat though, which is a bummer since otherwise they are the perfect trading platform. Then go exchange that BTC to ETH on shapeshift, expect another 5% above spot price deal so in total you'll be losing out on around 10-15%. Not a great deal, but it's fast, and no verification anywhere.

Localethereum seems to work as well. Haven't tried it myself though.

A hack is a real possibility that cannot be discounted here.

I believe that for whatever reason, if any exchange wants to put a halt to trading activities then it should at least have its users notified 1 day before the scheduled maintenance happens. If they don't, not only will it mean that users are grumpy because of inability to access their funds, it also means that unnecessary speculation will come out.

And seeing that Binance usually is quite good at customer support and communication compared to other exchanges, I'm surprised at this. Since they've denied it, the chances are that they're probably not hacked, but as i said, always a possibility in these scenarios and obviously exchanges want to cover it up if it does happen.

Cex.io has addressed this multiple times. They've said before that they're having troubles with the banking system that they are currently working with to sort out these withdrawal issues. So pretty much all pending deposits will be held up until these issues gets sorted.

They are at least until now, not a scam. Not that i'm aware of, at least.

You could either wait, or ask support whether they can reverse the bank transfer and just credit your account instead with the USD amount like they were supposed to in the beginning. Hopefully they'll do that and let you convert your USD into BTC.

This number constantly fluctuates. And there is pretty much no way to accurately measure it at the moment at least.

The thing is, bitcoin holders are only identified by its address. And obviously the contents of an address could be lost or the owner could pass away or something like that. Any one of many things could happen to cause bitcoins to be taken out of circulation.

However, it is hard to distinguish inactive bitcoins from bitcoins that are just being held in cold storage for the long term by the owner.

And with the number of people holding bitcoin on the rise, the actual amount of bitcoin in circulation is probably getting less and less, and is one of the reasons why price has been increasing as well.

Your best chance here is probably to negotiate with zazarb. Otherwise this scam accusation is probably going to go on forever.

If you can't afford repayment then just say so, instead of going on with excuses of bitcoin being too high or whatever.

Why didn't you just take out a loan fixed in USD if you didn't want to pay off the loan in BTC? Even get a cash advance from your bank/credit card if that's the case. Your deal with zazarb doesn't say anything about the loan being in USD whatsoever.

As yahoo said, speak with zazarb, see if he could offer to lock the repayment amount in fiat now, since bitcoin is quite low at the moment. Or discuss whether you could go on a payment plan without interest for a while.

Firstly, you should have never stored more than 10% of your portfolio on cryptopia or any other exchange. That way if an exchange goes down you would still be able to retain most of your cryptos since you store them on your wallet locally.

But since now that your account has gotten locked, there isn't much you can do to protect your assets anymore.

Just gonna have to wait for the response and hopefully, they do respond to you.

I'm seeing a ton of cryptopia problems recently and it seems like your case isn't isolated. I'd say that either there is a hacker that is trying to brute force every single person's account and making them all locked as a result, or cryptopia is doing something shady here. Both options are equally likely.

Holding for the long term is probably going to be extremely profitable, even after the price has gone on a multi-month hike last year. I personally believe that bitcoin is still going to outperform most asset classes in the coming years, including fiat of course.

It doesn't mean that you can't sell and buy later. If you feel like that there's a bubble, obviously the smart thing to do will be to sell your coins and buy back at a more reasonable price point, so that you can increase your bitcoin holdings.

And looking now, bitcoin's price is extremely reasonable for buyers. Would be a good time to get your bags filled up for the long term.

HitBTC, Yobit, and Cryptopia.

All of these exchanges will guarantee that your token by listed on their site. With HitBTC they even have this promotion service if I remember correctly, but you'll have to pay a hefty amount for each of these sites to list your token.

I would actually discourage you to use any of the 3 to list your coin, even if they are pretty much the only ones that is paid to list. If your coin gets listed to yobit, then people will probably still trade on Etherdelta because there is just no trust for yobit. Cryptopia seems to be having trouble at the moment as well, and HitBTC is just unreliable in general.

Much rather just pay no fee and get it on Etherdelta, or get enough organic attention and get it listed on a bigger exchange such as bittrex/poloniex which can be hard. A third option would be having a community voting on c-cex, or nova. It should be free.

Post your used addresses here and I'll have a look at them.

Of course, if you moved your coins after the fork then you ain't getting anything from your new wallet provider. 1st August was the date of the airdrop for bitcoin cash. If you didn't have money with them then there's no point expecting them to give them free money.

Get all your used addresses from blockchain.info, that had a balance close to or before August 1st. They should all have a sum of BCH in them. Claiming them is easy and there's a bunch of youtube vids out there specifying how to do that, but make sure you empty out every single mbtc from your blockchain.info wallet before you do it.

I'd think that bitcoin is far from its ultimate peak value.

It's just that a lot of people are currently stuck in the small picture and not really caring about the long term. All they care about is short term profits, which is understandable. But this current price which is so low, is definitely not a good time to sell.

When bitcoin actually gets mass adopted all over the world, instead of it just being something of a speculative phenomenon that gets ambigious press coverage, then its intrinsic value will naturally appreciate.

To say that 2018 is the end of bitcoin is beyond dumb.

I really doubt that Chinese new year will have that big of an impact on the bitcoin's price.

But I think that you're right about the price rebound. It's going strong now and I can pretty much only see this current trend going even higher once all the bad news is flushed out of the system and people are confident in buying bitcoin again.

Potentially, this pump will take bitcoin back up to $10k+.

No point selling now because a) you're probably going to take a loss by doing so and b) bitcoin is most likely going to get way higher after this.

Only thing that has happened was that - bitcoin was hyped up, but it genuinely had a lot more adoption as well, which meant that price went through the roof and sort of becamea  speculative bubble. But now, it's returned to around where it should be at the moment.

We're definitely still up, A LOT. If you have bought just 2 years ago you'd still be in thousands of percent of profits.

No point denying that there was a crash though. But again, that is just a normal part of things and there is really no point in exaggerating things, which a lot of people are currently doing. You're not going to see bitcoin going up forever, without crashing. Not going to happen. Bitcoin is traded on markets and that's what markets do sometimes.

Lmao. And here he is just casually promoting his own crypto ICO, and saying that it'll make huge profits when the entire alt and bitcoin markets are going downhill. His words even if they are legit are just plain guesses, thousands of people make these uneducated guesses to try to get publicity, and a few of them has to succeed sooner or later.

So really, I don't see anything special in this. Nor is the guy actually a prophet like he assigns himself the title of.

D oyour own research and see what works best for you as an investment strategy. But no, bitcoin isn't going to crash to $1k before it goes to $15 or even $20k. The lowest point I see in this bear market will be $3-4k, potentially a bit less, but we're not going to regress back to start of last year.

To be honest, I can probably see some more dumps before a big recovery.

So for now, hold your coins. If bitcoin ever goes to around $6k or under again, buy some as soon as you have the chance to. These price levels were pretty much dreamed about back when bitcoin was getting pumped hard.

Also, if you do buy at $6k or less, make sure that you're looking at a long term investment. There may not be big pumps for a long time to come, but when it comes, and you're holding your coins, you'll make a huge profit for sure.