Sad news: the media are against us!

I created a new topic about this subject:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175519.0

Both Coindesk and Cointelegraph are giving fake news about Poloniex paying back what it stole. It's simply not true.

This is worrying because investors need good information and 2 leading crypto websites aren't delivering. I guess they don't have any journalists. They receive press releases, they send them to a guy in Asia (they probably found him on Fiverr?) to rewrite it somehow, and they publish it without understanding anything.

This is exactly what they did in the following 2 articles:

https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-traders-who-lost-big-in-poloniex-flash-crash-receive-bitcoin-refunds

https://cointelegraph.com/news/poloniex-will-reimburse-135-million-loss-from-clams-flash-crash

I'm a victim here. I've lost more than one BTC in this 1,800 BTC affair, which I explain in this topic.

Coindesk and Cointelegraph are both saying I will get my money back, but I won't, nor will anyone. It's 100% fake news, and Poloniex knows it very well. That's his plan.

What Poloniex has been announcing is that to all people who have had their money stolen, Poloniex offers all trading fees. That sounds like a nice gesture, except that trading fees for a maker is 0.15% at this exchange. As anyone can imagine, to get 1,800 BTC back from a 0.15% fee, that will take a lot of trading... And actually, no trading will happen. Because, as everybody affected, when I discovered that my coins were gone, I quickly withdrew what was left of it. Hey, when you see that your coins disappear, you don't leave them at an exchange you cannot trust!

So Poloniex won't have anything to pay, and that's what Coindesk and Cointelegraph should have they have said, if they had understood anything about the issue, or if they had any will to give good information to their readers.

We knew a fight was coming.

The total privacy of some coins versus the all-regulated, all under the mighty eyes of the taxman, white banking sector.

BTC has been between the two for a while, some day it will have to side with one or another. I favor the dark side.

The more I think of it, the more I find it ridiculous.

Because they must have thought about it. Made their own calculations, and they should have seen that the money they stole was not business as usual to theirs victims who have all withdrawn all their coins from this damned exchange.

They made an announce, but I'm sure they know it would not cost them a dime, as nobody wants to trade with them any longer.

They shall pay back, then we'll talk.

The link is on this topic already, don't have the time to look as there's an update.

Or kind of. It's more of a joke.

I've just received an email from Poloniex, and it says that all impacted lenders (that's people like me who were robbed of their savings) will be credited their Poloniex trading fees until their losses are fully recovered.

Free trading!

Well, since the incident, I've stopped all trading and lending at Poloniex and I guess many others did the same thing. I'm not about to go back, and frankly this offer is absolutely ridiculous. I've lost more than one BTC, and trading fee is 0.25% at Poloniex. I would have to trade for years to be credited the same amount Poloniex has stolen from my account.

Sorry guys, but this is no solution.

Thanks for joining this topic.

A class action would be nearly impossible because of Poloniex's terms. Litigation is coming, but it's really expensive. Only those who have lost a lot will do it. For the others like me, the best option remains to damage even more this exchange's reputation.

Campaign on Twitter are being done, see the "Poloniex Lending Theft"  group on Telegram to find out the schedule.

No complaint?

You don't know what you're talking about. Poloniex has stolen 1,800 BTC from its customers. It's not a scam accusation, it's a well documented fact. And I happen to be one of the victims, so I know what I'm talking about.

I wish I had been that lucky!
But I wasn't, and I lost more than one BTC, which Poloniex stole from my account.

I don't see what advantages would a blockchain have, compared to a centrally managed large database of the whole population's medical records.
This is what they have today in countries with national health services.

Would the average Joe gets more control over his records?

1/ This is old news!

2/ People should prioritize what really matters: has anyone lost any coin in this affair?

I understand ID theft is a serious problem, but the things a thief can do with a picture of yourself holding your ID is quite limited. What else has been stolen? Credit cards numbers? I'm using Binance from time to time, and after what Poloniex did to me (see my signature), I don't see this as a big issue.

Poloniex is rated at TrustPilot. Usually, I don't give much credit to those ratings, but everything there is true.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/poloniex.com

Please add your rating if you're another victim like me.

Yes, things are getting worse and worse. Poloniex was one of the last trading places I use to trust, but I can't recommend a single one, now.

I'm very surprised with this answer.
First, I think your title is a bit misleading. From what I understand, it is your computer who has been hacked, but I can't understand Kraken's answer. They should be able to give your complete logins and transactions history. No need to be an official. There's something really wrong here.

I sold a car 2 months ago.
I had "BTC accepted" on the classifieds, but nobody proposed to pay me that way.
My buyer paid me cash, I didn't complain.

Being a victim here, I should not believe in lending any longer, but I still believe it could work if exchanges were better managed. I mean that there should be no margin trading on small sh*tcoins, that in all cases margin trading should be volume-limited, and that there should be circuit breakers, like on the stock market, where all trading can come to a halt in case of excessive volatility.

Frankly, a lot could be done to make trading and lending much safer that now.

This was less than 2 months ago. I'm not dead yet, but I'm a victim, and we're all alive and kicking, organizing ourselves.

It was a joke! Come on, they invited Jeremy Allaire, Circle CEO.

This is the guy who has stolen money from its customers at Poloniex, by socializing losses. 1,800 BTC have been stolen from innocent customers. I shall remind everybody here that socializing losses is illegal in the US. He only did it because his US company only has non-US resident customers. And now, to escape US regulations even more, he has just moved his company to a new Bermuda entity.

I believe BTC will get better when the only people talking about it aren't stealing their customers. Especially the people talking at the senate.

Make you feel safe, please read the topic before writing BS. Poloniex has stolen 1,800 BTC from its customers, and I'm one of them. You're a mad man if you feel safe using Poloniex. And it will be even worse now that they've moved to Bermuda, where all litigation is impossible.

Somehow, this has to be Allaire's last trick. Since he has totally failed to convince the community (Poloniex went from the best exchange to the worst), he's no trying to seduce senators, who have probably less tech and crypto knowledge than we do.

I suggest you give up lending if you're not following the news. You began right after Poloniex stole its customers, at the very moment everybody was leaving, it was a very risky move.