As cryptocurrency becomes more popular, there are exchanges popping up all over the world. It is difficult to make a choice where to safely trade your coins and tokens. Some sites have lenghty verification procedures, others have high fees to ensure their future.
Please select up to 3 exchanges that you have experience with and that you like. Feel free to make suggestions for exchanges that I haven’t listed. I’ve tried to select at least most big ones.
It would also be great if you could explain your choices in this topic.
Surprised that you didn't include virwox in there. And also localbitcoins and paxful. If we're just looking at how good an exchange is for newcomers then my list would be localbitcoins, virwox, paxful, and then coinbase. All of them do not have good fees, but a new trader or new bitcoin user probably does not trade much anyways and is in it for the long term. All he needs is a convenient, guaranteed transaction and i feel like LBC offers that every single time. Coinbase is convenient as well, albeit being overall a bad exchange. Please consider adding them to the list and i'd be looking forward to seeing the results. |
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Heck, they're exposing themselves on their site... Their 0.5 BTC plan literally promises ROI in 2 days and probably billions of percent per year in compound interest. Yet, right beneath that they say that the average mining profit per year is only 192%... Still ponzi figures but how are you going to pay 50% per day interest with 192% per year profits? I guess the scammers are really just bad at maths. How did you even fall for this? This is just like any of the other thousands of ponzi schemes. Nothing special at all about this one that would even suggest they are more deceptive. |
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I have got an account at Hashflare, but I do not know what is better withdraw o reinvest?
The contract is for one year, if spend all year reinvesting never get money. My doubt is: Why Hashflare let user reinvest option?
Thanks in advanced.
Don't reinvest. You are not going to make anything in the long run and if you reinvest you're literally just compounding your losses. Take whatever you get and withdraw, and take the losses that you have already incurred. I'd say that you probably lost out on a lot of money because they made every single contract 1 year instead of lifetime, which means that people are overpaying initially when they bought their share. There are no guarantees that they won't reduce 1 year to 6 months or something. Take your money out of there when you still can. |
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You invest 384$ and you get 4.60$/ day prodit right ? its 138$profit/ month so about 3 month ROI no ?
Doesn't work like that. The difficulty for bitcoin always is going up. Also if bitcoin goes down then you're screwed since that is what ispaying your maintenance fees, which is denominated in fiat currency. So your reward goes down significantly as time goes on. Not as simple as you think, otherwise everyone would be making bank off cloud mining right now. @OP, hashflare is probably worse than genesis mining actually. They are NOT a legit company at all. I would recommend avoiding them in the future. Though i'm illing to see how much you actually gain from this. |
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I sent btc using my electrum wallet. I sent it as within 25 blocks so it wasn't exactly low fee. But it was a bit more than that. It shows as replaceable on my wallet but in the exchange that i sent btc to... it shows up as pending deposit.
I heard about viabtc accelerator. I tried to put the transaction id in and the cache and submitted it right at the top of the hour but i keep getting a 502 error for some reason.
Someone tells me i can just give them the transaction id and then they can do it for me and try. Its not this forum but another and that forum is pretty helpful with posters. Its not a bitcoin forum. They mentioned they did it for someone else and it worked when someone asked if they could it for them. Can someone here confirm this would be fine? I ask this because I sent btc to an exchange. So when that person enters my transaction id in viabtc acceleration and it goes through, the exchange would not know someone else tried to do the viabtc accelerator for me right? Like would the exchange notice okay i sent btc to the exchange but it got accelerated by someone else?
There is absolutely no reason why you can't provide your txid for someone or some company for them to accelerate your transaction. As long as you are not paying any fees for a free service then you shouldn't get scammed by anyone. The main reason why you should be concerned with using ViaBTC or other paid accelerators is whether or not they are able to deliver their promises on time. It could take just as long for confirmations, if you're using a fake one. But Viabtc is a legit site. Also, within 25 blocks is extremely low. 25 blocks should actually be around 150 blocks, so electrum is wrong. |
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Bump. Need by midnight eastern.
Will cover all fees.
Why couldn't you just use the bitcoin that use used to repay the other guy to meet your minimum? Then when you cash out you could just use the funds that you get to repay the guy. Seems fishy why you didn't do that. So if i loaned you, you would repay the initial amount + $7 interest + transaction fee. Is that right? If the previous lender is able to confirm the repayment has been sent out, then i could potentially do this. Maybe providing a txid would help. |
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Hello everyone,
Im new to the forum, and would like to ask you where you make your trades. This because i see many complaints about many exchanges. Right now i don't know where to put my money in.
Is there a website to compare them?
I thought Bittrex was quite good, but the many negative replies on the forum changed my mind a bit about them.
I thought some of the names below were good;
Bittrex
Binance
Bitfinex
Poloniex
Gdax (high fees though)
Kraken (website most of the times unreachable)
Im from the EU, so i don't know if its better to trade on a EU exchange or US?
Looking forward to read your opinion
Two important omissions to make. Bittrex - Legacy accounts getting downgraded to new accounts, meaning that people have their funds stuck in their account which they thought would have the high limits that they previously have enjoyed, and being forced to submit ID in order to just withdraw their money. Also delayed support tickets/verification. Poloniex - Low withdrawal limits. Unreliable support. Slow verification. Basically the same issues that bittrex has, except the issues have been going on for a lot longer. The rest are all okay exchanges, there are honestly no single exchange that is winning the race right now. |
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Two days ago I attempted to withdraw my Bitcoin funds from Bitfinex. Since then, my Bitcoins are completely locked up at Bitfinex.
It says : Withdraw approved December 07, 2017 22:58. It is now queued for processing and will complete soon (subject to spending limits of the account).
And I can NOT cancel it, there is no button.
I already submitted a ticket yesterday but no response.
Anybody else experiencing problems like that?
I had one transaction with IOTA withdrawals around a month back but that was well documented on their part. However as far as i can remember i had a cancel button so i could have cancelled my transaction any time and still get my iota back into my balance. These things happen once a while, though. Dunno what causes them specifically. If your withdrawal is a large one then they may hold it up for prolonged periods of time for sure. They state this somewhere, i can't remember but basically in this case either your account limist have been exceeded and/or the hot wallet is empty, and since your withdrawal is so large they need to process this manually. Wait for your support response. It could take a while though. |
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Hi!
I have frozen my account with mistake. I request you to activate my account again. Thank you
Ticket number#580589,
We can't help you with the actual inquiry. That is up to poloniex. What you did was pretty bad, because i don't think you can unfreeze your account without the support's help in this case. I could be wrong, but if you do require the support's help then you are pretty much screwed. Poloniex has a longstanding history of basically ignoring their customers support request, sometimes taking months to even answer, let alone solve a simple request to verify their account, lift their limits, etc. You could be looking at a similar timeframe for your mistake. I would strongly recommend you moving to a different exchange, binance/bitfinex/LBC/whichever you prefer personally. Poloniex is cancer. |
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Hi there!
I'd like to know what exchange website would be the best to buy Bitcoins and other coins, without all that drivel with ID verification and all that!
Simply normal stuff, where I could deposit USD from my VISA and proceed!
Thanks
George
P.S. Don't want to use Local Bitcoins atm!
I'd definitely recommend localbitcoins even though you don't want to use it for whatever reason. It is just the most seamless experience every single time, and i don't think that any exchange can rival its reliability and longevity at this point. Coinbase can be hassleless, unless something goes wrong. In which case, you won't be offered any help. Also there are tiny limits, meaning you probably won't be able to buy more than $2k a week at max. As i said, especially for buying bitcoins fast and conveniently, check out either localbitcoins or paxful. Both work well but i prefer Localbitcoins because of its longer history. Don't just discard the idea of using it. |
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aTriz is definitely not lauda's alt, makes no sense. They act completely differently, post completely differently and as far as i can tell probably live in entirely different countries.
They also hold this thing called ALU together, which would make absolutely no sense again. Why would 2 alts be interested in forming a group to manage campaigns together? Perhaps you would like to accuse untold the designer as both of their alts as well?
aTriz was obviously being sarcastic as he made that post, and the evidence is zero.
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999DICE.COM is a SCAM, and won't let you withdraw your funds sometimes.
Also there is not a tab with your withdrawals,
and you are not able to write in chat since there are just programmed scripts, it's not a real chat
Try opening the page with 2 browsers different and try typing, you won't see yourself typing in the chat, simple as that.
That means there is no admin or staff.
I made a bet lost, deposited again and won, withdrawn but after 10 hours still nothing.
Used the contact form and saved the username and password in a notepad.
Now using the same password says I can't login.
I tried another account I made yesterday on the same site, again password not working.
Simple as that, Just don't deposit on that bullshit website made by a russian scammer.
First of all, you should have done your own research before gambling on a site and trusting them with your funds. 999dice is most likely a rigged casino and remains to be a rigged casino since they don't show you your client and server seeds every single roll, unless you request for it. I'm not sure whether the chat is completely bots though. I do recall before i realised that they were a scam, there were always regulars to the chat that i personally chatted to basically every single day and even entrusted them with BTC which some people returned. Not sure if this has changed of course. Withdrawals are supposed to be instant, your only hope is to really just contact support - nothing more you can do. Perhaps you were on a phishing site, even? |
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Deposit + withdrawal fees are unnecessarily high but that's not a scam. It's a ripoff for sure and you can probably get better exchanges for lower prices than ANX pro. It's a pretty much dead exchange anyways with much less volume than major exchanges.
The bid price is the "buy" price, and if the bid price is 15-20% above market then it means that they are actually losing out, and you're getting a great deal. So i think you meant the other way around.
Anyways, what causes you to think that the high spreads are caused by them, and not just a lack of liquidity and volume?
This should be moved to exchanges instead of in scam accusations, in my opinion.
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The first link that you provided just links to the home page of their site, so either it's that they've removed the transaction already or it's because only if you're logged in as the right person can you actually see the transaction on their site.
Anyways, you're definitely not the only one here talking about delayed transactions on changelly.
Does this transaction involve ETH? Because it says on their site that ETH transactions will be delayed a little, though it does not justify them delaying this for 8 days and counting now. You should write to them on reddit, their reddit account is quite active.
you are right, it can be seen only from my account. hash of transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/a680e2e1217ae5e6e8c9efa38be2769906141e3c421215c7dc636d149757df6eAmount 10 BTC Money received 07 Dec 2017, 18:29:34 Fee 2,838.313911 XEM Exchange rate 1 BTC = 56,645.675214 XEM Today the letter has come: Dear Customer
Thank you for your query and apologies for the delayed reply. Unfortunately, our support team is heavily overloaded now.
Our technical department has a lot of requests, so it may take some time to process yours. Yet we'll do our best to accelerate this process. We have asked our technical team to do their best to resolve the issue with your request sooner.
Thank you for your patience!
*No need to reply to this email in case your issue is resolved. Our support is heavily overloaded now.
Thank you.
but for almost 10 days there is no money, this is really strange. every day I send them letters - and get some disinterested answers - after such a desire to work with them disappears. although the service is really convenient These seem like automated responses for sure, they probably have a template already for every single case, which seems disgenuine on their part for sure. I'd trust shapeshift 100x more than changelly at the moment because of their "overloaded" environment. Also your exchange seems to not involve ETH as well, and there are no clogs in the XEM network. Not sure why they are even havinga lot of requests in their tech department. People like you use changelly because you expect a faster transaction than if you did so yourself, they don't pay a 0.5% fee just to get this in return. |
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There were a lot of previous transactions on that address which i assume were successful? So i'm not sure why hey would selectively scam your current deposit when they could have scammed your previous 800 ETH or more deposits.
WEX has terrible customer support and you should know it. I mean ever since btc-e days their support is pretty much nothing. If you had an issue you had to wait for months.
At least you have proof that you should be credited. All you can do is be paitent really.
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Reminder that ConfirmTx is a scam. I have received no refund after multiple weeks and my transaction took 30+ hours.
They are still operating.
Do not use.
Yeah and by now they should really be handed a negative trust for their shady activity. They haven't refunded anyone who hasn't gotten their transaction confirmed like they promised to and neither have they logged into their bitcointalk account since 3th December(2 weeks ago almost), when before all this happened, they were logging in daily and active on their own thread. I remember there was one guy saying that confirmtx contacted him for ICO creation services. How absurd if that is true, because quite frankly who would buy into an acceleration business that probably just copy & pastes txids? It makes no sense. |
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What happened in China with that big community didn't affect the bitcoin. How do you expect Argentina cause the bitcoin to be crashed? It will never happen.
Well, there was at least one flash crash (5000 -> 3000) where many people made China's "ICO ban" responsible for. And they seem to be targeting explicitly cryptocurrency holders, it seems. It doesn't apply to gold or other assets, just cryptocurrencies. No, it's a "capital gains" tax, not a cryptocurrency tax (I maybe was a bit imprecise in the OP), so holders of other assets are also affected. It's lastest president Cristina Fernandez left the Argentina in poverty, so now Mauricio Macri (It's current president) made this new law because many people is making profits over BTC in there.
That's what Mr. Macri wants you to think, yeah (Argentina wasn't left "in poverty", but there was much corruption and lots of bad decision making in the Kirchnerist government. But don't be naive, Macri is from the same breed.) i'd be curious to know how much liquidity and trading volume argentines represent. i've been hearing about significant adoption there for years, so it's possible that such sell pressure could spill over into the global markets. There is only one exchange, Ripio, and it doesn't have high volumes; there are also three or four fixed-rate shops and pretty much LocalBitcoins movement. But most Argentine Bitcoin whales got Bitcoin via mining (electricity was extremely cheap until 2015/16) and are holding them to cash out in US dollars or other currencies, so the ARS/BTC movement is probably a tiny fraction of the whole "Argentine volume". But there are few full nodes (only 20) tracked by Bitnodes. however, 15% per year is not unreasonable for capital gains taxes.
Yes, I also think it's not unreasonably high. Well, capital gains taxes are everywhere in the world... People in my country, and pretty sure most 1st world and 2nd world countries will have to pay capital gains tax on their crypto holdings if they sell it for a profit. This as i said shouldn't have an impact on the price as well. It's only one country, implementing what the rest of the world has already implemented. No big news here, it's probably not going to affect anything related to bitcoin, especially for long term holders since they're not selling any time soon. |
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I would like more information on why my account was hacked and bitcoin stolen. I read there was an issue with blockchain and they fixed it and are refunding those who were stolen. Its been a long time and I haven't heard from anyone. Can you help me?
I remember that the only major hack was years ago, and people were refunded. But i haven't heard of any major hacks recently regarding blockchain.info, there have only been a small few cases here and there meaning that it was probably just a case of a compromised account due to lack of sufficient security on the computer blockchain.info was run on. So even if you were hacked, you'll probably not be able to get a refund. You should probably include some screenshots, the TXID, alongside more evidence before we can even help you here. |
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Hi,
As the title says, i wanna know more about that site, since i'm using it at the moment to store some money.
But i've seen a significant amount of very negative reviews about it. However, i keep seeing people recommending it, and it's sometimes referred as one of the best. I really don't know what to think about them. Btw i wonder if some reviews are legit or fake. Should i keep using Blockchain? Or move to something else?
I need to buy some btc and eth right now and Kraken barely works/is taking too much time to verify me. I heard about people who paid for btc but never got anything or had to wait for weeks...
Don't store large amounts because the exporting process for private keys is absolutely hideous. They used to just have this one tab where you could export your private key unencrypted in WIF format but now, you have to go through your backup seed to get your private keys. Also, there is always a chance that somehow, your account gets hacked. There is always less security with in browser wallets than desktop or cold/hardware wallets. If you are buying small amounts under $1k and storing it, blockchain.info is reliable. But over that amount, use electrum/ledger/trezor. |
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I believe this is what happened: the hacker hacked into the mail server of hitbtc or intercepted the password reset email triggered by him, then reset my password and gained access to my account. The login history of my email box showed no abnormal access at all; the password reset email that the hacker triggered was received unread. The hacker can't withdraw anything after resetting the password; however, he converted all my coins to BTC, then bought expensive SWT orders placed by him, and then sold the SWT to a very cheap order that was also placed by him. He repeated this process a couple times, then all my digital assets worth $30000+ were almost gone. Even though I have perfect security on my computer, even though the hacker cannot withdraw anything from my account, my $30000+ are all gone.
From what I have seen, this security problem has been there for quite a while. Yet, hitbtc did nothing to prevent this from happening again. Shame on them. I will never use this trash site ever again.
The thing is you can't provide any proof that it was their fault. They could easily argue that you did not secure your device correctly or sufficently and not take the blame for it. But i think that with so many complaints about random people placing orders on people's accounts for hitbtc, it's not a coincidence anymore. I remember a few months ago there was a guy who got hacked, and the hacker bought some shitcoins off the markets for ridiculous prices. I guess that's how they funneled their money out to ensure that tehy do not get caught. Don't use them if you don't trust them. Nobody is forcing you to, and i don't think anyone should use hitbtc for such high amounts anyways. Sorry for your losses. |
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