Lol what is this? sorry but the inability to socialize, inability to speak up, bad at public speaking, and the likes are not introversion but something else, one candidate for instance is social anxiety.

I define introverts as people who have a lower social energy hence the preference for solitude. It doesn't mean they're bad or hate socializing. In truth, we humans are social beings and actually need to socialize.

What if I tell you the authorities were actually aiming to sentence him for 40,000 years? lmao, see: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/thodex-crypto-exchange-founder-busted-faces-40000-years-in-jail -- a year old article

These figures are bonkers I know, but this reminded me of multiple life sentences for people with multiple charges, perhaps the concept is similiar in turkish law.


I don't think it's wrong that Turkey is being harsh on these people, they deserve it with the amount of damage they caused to many people.

Another possibility is, it could be randomly airdropped to your address. Some teams do it in order to lure people/create buzz, though from what I saw, it's typically the shady projects who do it.

From the thing you've told us, there are more indicators you're dabbling into something shady, I would err on the side of caution.

May I add another tip? 

If you try to be active on telegram, you could setup the telegram notification bot for our forum, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248878.0

This way, you could also respond to forum members inquiries in a timely manner as the team could setup the bot to get notifications when someone quotes/mentions their handled bitcointalk account and even do a topic tracking for this ANN thread.

Lol they should've expected it would remind people of FTX given how similar the brand name is, or perhaps, it was an intentional move to create some buzz 

Can't speak for others but, the meaning behind HTX is a lot more closer to ramblings rather than meaningful lol.  What even is that slogan though? "HTX, Just Trade It"? it sounds like a strange copy pasta from Nike's "Just Do It".

Were you talking about this?


From what I understand, it just means not providing KYC information would mean your claim has a much less weight/support compared to claims backed with KYC information because debtors have the right to object it.

Imo, it's more likely that they'll exercise their right to object non-kyc'd claims especially if there is no enough supply to cover every claims.

Is it really a he said, she said situation when you have an overwhelming amount of people complaining about the same thing!? -- endless KYC to keep funds hostage

Is it really, when the exchange has displayed other scummy behavior such as charging 20 bucks per month when a user has become inactive for a mere six months and without notifying them?


Should we just ignore that most major/somewhat popular altcoins are above average in fees?

I wonder why your bar is low when it comes to hitbtc. I saw people thinking of dabbling into obscure exchanges because of the cheap fees but hitbtc is known to be problematic and their withdrawal fees are even above average but yes, it is still the way to go 🥱


Being optimistic is perfectly fine but glossing over the overwhelming problematic stuff is just toxic positivity. There are far better exchanges than hitbtc, it's not like you have no choice.

The more obscure the exchange is, the higher the risk. But if you can take the risk, I would suggest to split your funds into pieces and trade with one part each time. The trick is, if they ever froze your account, only a part is lost.

If you however find a community for this coin where it's okay to post trade offers, you could try to list your offer in p2p exhanges like agoradesk or robosats and also advertise in the mentioned community for extra exposure.

Note: Robosats allows you to manually input a payment method so it should work; agoradesk has the "Cryptocurrency" option.

They're an off-shore company incorporated in Seychelles which is pretty much for formalities only because it's pretty easy to incorporate there that even scammers have it.

I can only suggest making noise in as many crypto communities as you can since Bitmex should still let you withdraw. Try to make your post brief but detailed enough for people to get the whole thing and catchy. I would start in their subreddit, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitMEX/

What do these figures have to do with legitimacy??? There were even big ponzi schemes who siphoned billions out of many people. It doesn't prove anything op. Moreover, let's also keep in mind how easy it is to inflate/fake numbers.  

In addition, there is no need for reviews when their business model is a text book ponzi scheme.


It's clearly a scam and you're the only one doubting that here, maybe because you're here to advertise them 🥱

The regret of throwing away the riches drove him nuts lmao

I've read the article and my dude lost his bitcoin wallet on 2013. Obviously, a lot has changed since then. It's nearly impossible he'll be able to recover anything, not to mention the amount of work it would take to dig that much.

Most importantly, the negative environmental impact it would cause


He has no case. Better just buy BTC's again and hold.

If you're still able to access your account, perhaps they'd label it as such in your transaction history. Onto your question, it has been more than two years so more than enough to drain a couple hundreds as they said, they charge 20 bucks a month.

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Try reading the thread you posted on? TLDR: the OP is open to KYC, the problem is, scam hitbtc keeps the whole thing in circles, ultimately making people give up. You will find multiple stories like this in various platforms such as this forum, reddit, twitter, etc.


Their withdrawal fees are above average and expensive still, see: https://withdrawalfees.com/exchanges/hitbtc


You situation is different as you have verified in advance. If you actually read the multiple scam threads about them particularly the actual thread you posted on, you'll know, these people have already spend a good amount of time with the exchange and have some money stuck in there before they were requested to be placed in an endless KYC BS.

I'm really doubting you're just a regular user. You sound more like a shill with the way you defend them so much.

Honestly, I find SMS 2fa inconvenient -- at least in the long run.

It's merely easy to setup because of how widely used SMS services have been hence, people are so much more familiar with it + no backups are needed (instead you trust your service provider which as mentioned have caused trouble multiple times) so there is little to no learning curve.

But here's the thing, I have used services where you don't have a choice other than SMS 2fa. Oh god, SMS getting delayed or lost is pretty much inevitable even with good signal on my phone. I move around from places to places as well and there were areas where the signal is just poor. On my TOTP app, I don't need to rely on network providers and I always get my code the moment I open my app.

I'd choose TOTP any day. It's more convenient for my use case and most importantly, has better security.

From the image you linked to us, Bitmex did say you breached their terms of service so there is a violation. Perhaps, you were truly at fault -- whether you did it knowingly or not. However, we don't know the specifics so it could go both ways really. CEx do rely on suspicions so I wouldn't be surpised if it's something dumb or a false positive.

In any case, it's unlikely that they will explain the cause throughly. With CEx's it's either they don't tell the specifics or give a vague reasoning which as user, I know, sucks. Most of these exchanges also have clause/s in their terms of service indicating they may not notify you the exact reason for cases like this.

So my advise is to focus your energy in getting your funds out. See if you could request to delete your personal data with them as well -- i know we have to rely on trust with this but it's better than nothing.

That's indeed quite possible.

The funny thing is, the post just backfired as it only made people remember how bad the exchange is lol.


Another tactic from HitBTC to lure users into their KYC trap. They did not email so you're more likely to miss it.

Were you able to view the balance in your account? cause they may have zero'd it as well. Afaik, HitBTC has a predatory scheme of charging a monthly fee if you've been inactive for 6 months.

I saw your main account woke up couple of hours after this post, was that you?


If so, lock this thread and congrats!

Otherwise, see: Recovering hacked/lost accounts
I would also suggest starting a topic in Meta board so it can be tagged as hacked in the mean time while you recover your account.

Oh okay. So far, it does follow the same pattern -- that it works with chrome/chromium based browsers.

I looked it up and duckduckgo --on android-- and microsoft edge are chromium based.



Firefox is heavily recommended by privacy enthusiasts so I hope it gets optimized along with adding segwit addresses.

What's with the article though?

The headline is "Crypto exchange Bitfinex holds bitcoin on its balance sheet" but it doesn't say much about this except that a trusted source has told them. The rest of the content are about how bitfinex invest a part of their money to bitcoin and their sister company.

First part of the article and the 2nd stanza is already a different topic???


This looks like a promotional article for bitfinex to me lol.

KYC-ing in advance does not mean you'd avoid any surprises. Any centralized and custodial exchange can request you to reverify and/or request further personal information. I suggest at least skimming their terms of service.

Further, HitBTC is known for its shady practices -- selective scamming and problem/s typically arise once a user has deposited money to them particularly relatively significant amounts where they get the surprise invasive KYC.

You still have time to get out

Thanks for trying! What browser did you use?

I tried to load the website again after reading your post but no luck! I played with my VPN (paid) again, and nothing. I tried with another different browser-- brave and it worked! it did load slow (particularly the charts) but it worked.

The browsers I've tried last night were firefox and librewolf. I just remembered librewolf is a fork of firefox which could explain why they had the same result. Brave by the way is chromium based. So perhaps, this doesn't do well with firefox/firefox based browsers? however, I do remember accessing the spot market on the 24th of September using firefox browser and it went fine.

Anyhow, I was gonna try this but found their deposit addresses for btc are all legacy -- instant and spot. This came as a surprise since segwit addresses have been the standard.