I made an xmr deposit to poloniex about 6 hours ago.  They still list it as pending at 7 confirmations, haven't credited it to my account.   Now xmr deposits are disabled at polo.
What's going on? 
Are monero transactions going through, or is this just a polo problem?

I have an XMR deposit that polo says has been at 7 confirmations for an hour now.  This has happened before.  So I opened another ticket. I have to open a ticket every time I deposit xmr.
I went on chat and all the mods can say is "the wallet is working perfectly"  wtf
The wallet isn't working, period.

Prosecutors play dirty; compliant, biased judges make unconstitutional rulings. 
Times ten if you have a high profile political case like Ulbricht.

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Of course!  The government isn't going to fuck your shit up.
They never do that.
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The monero network is still small and weak enough that it's vulnerable to an attack by the state, is it not?
It would cost the U.S. government peanuts to attack monero and crush it.

It's something about this wifi I'm on.  It won't let me use vpn either.  I used my cell data connection and was able to log in.  Sorry for the distraction.  Carry on!

Any idea when mymonero.com is going to start allowing logins again?  It's totally stuck.  I've been trying to log in for the better part of an hour.

Google Translate from Russian:

Good people, there are purse wallet v0.8.5.294 (0.1-g56bb959) has not updated about a couple of years (I forgot - I confess), there is a thread that has been read hardfork, mozho Now I forget the coin on the purse? Or can someone tell me how you can upgrade without losing any coins!

Well, I can't compete with petty adolescent triumphalism. 

I think Monero is very promising and I put my money where my mouth is.
But this thread is an echo chamber populated with a mix of starry-eyed evangelists, and the odd troll here and there.

In response to Altitude, who wants to know when to buy, I'm going to assume you're young.
I'm not young.  I am retired. I have decades of experience, and made plenty of mistakes along the line financial and otherwise.
My advice:  unless you're a master trader wirh complete emotional detachement, find a strategy you can stick with.  In the best case scenario, the discipline involved will keep you from making short-term emotional decisions.  You may need a long view of decades, but I get the impression from your admittedly brief post that your horizon is pretty short.

I would suggest reading up on value averaging (not dollar cost averaging).  If you think it can work for you, then apply it.  By all means, apply it flexibly, not by rote. Run simulations of different scenarios.  Just working out the performance of a particular investment strategy by simulating its returns in different market scenarios (e.g. various levels of volatility and different returns over the long run) will distance you from the emotional side of thinking and put you on much firmer footing for the making of investment decisions.
I suggested value averaging because I like it, and it is designed for long investing horizons.

Use triangular numbers.  Say your ladder has nine rungs.  The sum of one through nine is 45.  If you have 20 btc to bid, the first rung will be 1x20/45=0.444btc, the second rung will be 2x20/45, on down to the last rung, which will be 9x20/45=4btc.

I increase the order size as denominated in btc.
I was also thinking about arranging the order amounts in a crude sort of gaussian distribution, with the bulge somewhere around the middle of the ladder.

I placed a ladder of buy orders on polo's XMR/BTC market at prices from .0035 to .0028.
The size of the orders increases linearly down the ladder.  With a small drop in the price I will buy a small amount, with a steep drop the purchase size at each rung grows.  The net purchase is a quadratic function of the drop in price, if the price drops.
How would you do it?  Make all the orders the same size, so the function is linear?

Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women
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The Wizard: Wealth can be wonderful, but you know, success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary

One of these days I'll have to watch that movie.

Maybe rpietila can sell his Finnish homies on that.

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my stash of moneroj was worth more than my stash of bitcoins.  So, telling myself that monero poses more long term risk, I sold almost half my moneroj.
Moral of the story:  don't talk to yourself!

And for your amusement, here's a little light reading about John McAfee.
https://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/

I don't think Polo's limit on xmr withdrawals has a hygienic purpose, i.e. to prevent fraud or hacks.  I just wish they wouldn't do it.

It's gunna be a funny munny epifunny

How many coins does polo impose withdrawal restrictions on?
If it's only xmr, then it's not a red flag of exchange insolvency.