No not really
I see it as a steady climb upwards. It is $572 now and I see it going up by the end of the day to $580~ish again. It still is time to buy though before it does.

Yeah those Cloud mining schemes are notorious to run off with your coins. That's for certain!:-[

The 502 error for the last 1 hour has been upsetting to say the least and rather frustrating. But has not been seen to this extent before. Could be from that rather long thread in the giveaway section!

But now getting an 500 internal Server error  

Does this mean to someone is attempting to hack into this forum?

Same thing happened when I did the same thing with another one of these sites that want you to buy gamergold or credits then do a paypal transaction. They do these stupid things like this. In my case they tell you : "Oh one more thing... we need you to send in your I.D and photos so we can verify your paypal account you are paying from. This will take UP TO 48 HOURS for us to get back to you!"
What the hell is that?! After you send the money to them they ask you for this information!? What kind of stupidity is that? Now really!
So I cancelled the send and right after...
This had my paypal account limited and my funds held for 180 days without access to them. All because of these kind of sites.

So after all those accomplished transactions you can confirm that they do charge 50% in hidden fees when it all comes in total at the end?

Yes those hidden fees come out to 50%. If the buyer knew this before putting in the deposit they would not have accepted it in the first place. But that is how virwox gets you! Once they have your money then they say oh you must pay this much for it.
Any place that deals with paypal being accepted to make payment for buying btc is 50% of the price of bitcoin from now on. I noticed that on several other sites too. I think for offsetting any loss when the price has been decreased significantly caused by a dump like 2 days ago.
That is the price when dealing with paypal to btc transactions that is the new norm. They make you pay out of your a**h0le for taking it!

^^ ^^
Oh wow scammers are trying to be imposters; a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain.

It is getting even tougher to know who to trust on this exchange topic from now on.
They are trying any which way to try and scam people here!

Now why would you send $500 to someone via paypal -of all the processors out there- without any verification?
Are you for real bro?  

I hate that sense of it being so volatile and why put yourself under undue stress like that?
Love the stability of gold and it is actually a physical item(if you want it to be and not just trading it virtually) so you know it is yours and nothing will change that unless you lose it out of your own doing.

Having been in the bitcoin environment for 1 year now and the amount of things that you witness in this time makes it feel like a hellva a lot longer then this.

Decentralization is the only sure way to know that your coins will leave your sight when a catastrophe like this happen on an exchange. Why take the risk with your bitcoins.
It is like handing over the keys to your house to a complete stranger.
Kiss your belongings goodbye!

Thats what cryptsy asked for too when I registered an account with them. Now they have that on file and they are gone.
I wouldn't trust any of these exchanges with my id and info.
But I think they all do for verification purposes.
Not too sure if virwox does if you don't verify your account. But since they are taking paypal my best guess would say that they do.

Those are the fees to do a paypal to btc exchange? That is steep but they are taking on something that many won't want to offer to the public because of all the stipulations that you have to go thru for using the site. But if that is your only option then I guess you have to grin and bare it and eat those fees.

It might already be too late! The price has bounced back to $570 in the last 3 hours so it is settling back to the way it was prior to report of the breach of security.

I am pretty sure there are quite a few here that have had ties with this exchange.
Will they admit it? Probably not out of being too embarrassed to admit that they held any coins in an exchange once their trading session has ended.

This is a gag?  
I will put in mine to see if anything comes out of it. Sure then giveaway what you will.

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It is an address to another exchange so I don't if this address gets hacked

Don't forget that hackers look at personal information -names, bank accounts and SINs as good as if not more valuable then the bitcoins that they stole.
Those tiny characters on the screen are the gifts that keep on giving from a hackers point of view.

Anyone know for sure if they got customer's information as well? The news has still not been completely released on the damage that was caused. I have a pretty good feeling that they won't disclose this information to the public if it has been comprised. That would put them into full damage control mode.

I would think they would just cut their losses and just file for bankruptcy to not have a slue of lawsuits that are fourth coming.
You don't think people who lost their coins will just sit back and forget that this exchange allowed their funds and undoubtedly their personal information to be stolen and not take legal action is beyond me to believe.

No surprise there.
You always hear horror stories about Poloniex and their exchanges from numerous of their customers.
Their customer service is quite poor from what I heard as well.
Why anyone would entrust their coin with them is something I can not or ever will understand.

I have tried it and must say I am impressed with the level of service that they provide and the features that were available to me when I looked into opening an account with them.