You're not the only one having an issue with stuck withdrawal and non-responsive customer service. Check the official thread, it's full of complaints:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=420836.2280


Bit confusing. They claim it's completed, but you're saying it's still pending and want to cancel it? Were they replying regarding the same withdrawal or different one?


There's not much you can do. Just keep waiting and if no luck, keep submitting tickets, you can try and send them a pm on twitter (with your ticket number) but don't set your hopes too high, you'll likely be ignored.
https://twitter.com/poloniex

If everything fails, consider taking a legal actions.

Search by the name, you'll find them. The correct number is: MSB Registration Number: 31000091844018. Looks like they had to re-register for some reason.

UASF has zero miners support. If you're hoping for Luke jr to create you a new altcoin with new algo, then yes, withdraw your funds to a private wallet, so you can get your share of UASFcoin when/if they split away from Bitcoin.

This can't be right. 7% APR (annualised rate) is way too low. At the current rates you should be getting something in the range of 30% APR (27.8% net of fees), so perhaps you meant 7%/month?

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Anyone knows how the bot chooses rates? Does it just match the lowest loan offers, or is it more advanced, (i.e. measuring depth, or just ignoring dust-amount loan offers)?

Short answer is "No", but only as long as your altcoin is decentralised (you don't control it in any way and the network can function without you) and you haven't launched it as an ICO.

You're essentially creating tokens of zero start value (so it's neither money nor commodity at that point), then other people join the network, making it independent from yourself and then the market start giving it a value/price.

Timing the market can be a real bitch. It's easy to look at the past price charts and think "I should've sold on that spike and buy back on that dip", but doing it real-time is a whole different story. You'll likely get burnt on bull/bear traps eventually.

But if you're tempted to try, why not set aside some round amount in a cold storage and play around with the rest, either by speculating only on BTC/USD rate, or also on altcoins.


Source?

If they locked your account, it's possible they've prevented someone (The Russian Hacker) from stealing your funds.

Poloniex currently are having major issues with massive backlog of support tickets, at least it's the official version. Checked their thread, people are waiting much longer than 10 days:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=420836.2240

Here's Polo's explanation on what's happening:

https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2017.06.07-Improving-Our-Support-Capacity/

So maybe just give them more time.

WTF am I reading... How is this even Bitcoin related?

OP - if you want to start scam accusation, at least provide details of the 'scam'. All we know from your post is that you paid EUR 150 for 'reservation'. What happened afterwards? What's the scam about?

MinersProject - if you care about your reputation, don't reply with lengthy, threatening rants. Just write a short, neutral explanation of what happened.


You can sue him if you like, but you can't freeze his deposit money. That's illegal. With statements like this you damaged your own reputation far more than he did.

Have you considered taking a legal advice? It won't be easy, as (afaik) it's not clear where their principal place of business is located and whether the reported owners are real people. But at very least, you could get the authorities to block their website in your country, that's better than nothing. You should give them a clear deadline to get it sorted. Frankly, it doesn't look like they're willing to resolve it.

And which country is that? Funny how people share all those amazing stories from their countries but shy away from naming them.

Your post doesn't make much sense. If the tax is included in the price of goods/services (VAT?), then, if you provide goods/services for bitcoins, you'd also need to charge tax (unless your government is sabotaging themselves by specifically exempting cryptos).

And not having personal income tax, doesn't mean you don't have to prove the legality of your income.

Polo finally got on twitter... just to say they won't participate in Stellar 'airdrop' distribution. Funny how they kept quiet pre snapshot block. They rather keep it to themselves.

https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/879511304075083781


Stellar's reply:

https://twitter.com/StellarOrg/status/879554489874653185

Reading this thread it looks like the withdrawals either go smooth or got stuck for good. Has anyone (recently) got their withdrawal issues resolved, or at least received non-generic response from support?

I haven't wrote a single 'guideline' and stated multiple times that I'm not an expert.

Again, my actions/inactions are irrelevant to the topic. You're derailing and inflaming discussion to earn some easy money from your sig campaign. That's all there is.


You haven't consulted shit, you're just spouting nonsense because it makes sense in your head. Lets verify it, what "specialist" was it? Care to provide his details? Which country are you based in?

Irrelevant. My actions don't constitute the law.
You can be sure as hell, that if you ever run into trouble for not declaring your income, "b..but pawel7777 from the forum also didn't declare those" won't serve you well as a line of defence.

If you convert significant amount, you should expect to be asked for the origins of your bitcoins.

And no, saying 'I've done some freelancing on the internetz' won't cut it. You could get a bit easier treatment, since cryptocurrencies are new concept, but generally - no one cares what you say, you have to be able to prove it. Otherwise money laundering would be a child's play.

And (depending on your jurisdiction), if you undertake any continuous business activities (such as freelancing), you'd be expected to register as a self-employed and be liable for corporation/income tax rather than Capital Gains tax. Makes no difference whether you take $/BTC/live stock as a payment.

TA are basically crap. You can't reliably predict future looking only at the past market behaviour. If it worked, we would all be filthy rich.
'Charts' don't behave, they reflect the past and nothing more.

It usually goes like this: some guy makes TA prediction, if he hits - he looks like a knowledgeable expert, if he misses - he says "Ooops, I've misread the chart"; "Turns out it's not 'head and shoulders' it's 'cup and handle'!" or similar bullshit.

That being said, there's also the concept of "self-fulfilling prophecy". If enough people believe in TA and they accept the same patterns, then they could have enough power to influence the market and actually force it to follow the TA. Simply, if suddenly everyone starts to believe that certain stock will crash (even if the belief is baseless) - then the stock will go down, because no one buys and everyone dumps.

See notice:

Tax-wise, it's your income, not your spending what's relevant. You have to be able to prove where did you get your money from, not where you spent it.

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OP: good thread and good advice. Although I doubt that, at this point, HMRC accept private keys/blockchain records as evidence, not to mention reports/screenshots from defunct exchanges, casinos etc. Still, it's better to have something than nothing.

And if you want to be 100% legit and law abiding citizen, you should declare your signature campaign earnings. In the UK, these would have to be declared as other income (you'd need to file annual tax return) rather than be treated as capital gains (even if you don't convert to fiat).

Correct. Unless the nature of your business is to sell bitcoins (rather than just accepting btc as a payment), then you don't charge VAT.


Short answer - they don't know. You can hold $millions in btc in your wallet and authorities won't know about it. But as soon as you try convert to fiat (or purchase high value assets) - that's when you attract their attention.

Just email them instead.

I'm guessing this may be an old phone number associated with their London registered office, which is probably just their agent's address, not an actual Bitstamp's place of business. They were handling all operations from Slovenia iirc, but not sure is this still a case.