Is it just a wiki for all the crypto coins, or does it also include other crypto related information such as exchanges and tutorials?

TBH, I'd definitely want to see your site expand into not just a place for altcoin info, but rather a general crypto version of wikipedia. As others have stated, the info on your site can already be found elsewhere. There just isn't enough detail for it to be successful at this stage.

Also, I'd definitely say that you should make it at least that people are forced to sign up to your site first before they are able to edit. Otherwise, you're going to encounter a ton of problems. Also with not enough moderators and contributors, you really need to put work in to keep the shills away and filter out unbiased info. But it's a good idea for sure. Almost a coinmarketcap sort of index for altcoin info, which can end up being something.

This 2fa isn't google authenticator or anything of that sort. It's just an email sent to your registered email address, containing a random string that you have to enter in to be able to get into your Yobit account.

I'm not sure why you're not receiving the email. If it says that check your email for authentication letter, then it should mean that your email is valid and you didn't enter a wrong email.

I just tried logging in and everything went fine. Perhaps Yobit's email servers are down right now. Not sure why there wouldn't be a field appearing for the code to be entered though, because it should appear automatically as it did for me. Try with a different browser. Don't even bother contacting support since they'll just ignore you anyways.

Could you actually include some screenshots?

But Yobit's withdrawal issues are one of the biggest problems that its customers face. It's not surprising to me that you've got an issue with withdrawing this particular coin here, and it seems like others have also had issues with this. But is it just pending/processing or "transfer from cold storage"?

They should definitely not mark withdrawals complete when they are not sent, if that is the case.

Anyways, as everyone should know by now. If anything goes wrong on yobit you have nobody to fall back upon. It's honestly a hellhole that everyone should avoid. Hopefully you learned your lesson on unregulated, shady crypto exchanges. Not just limited to yobit either.

We're seeing a huge trend in people moving to P2P trading, after the centralized exchanges have underperformed to expectations.

Also, Venezuela is an extremely interesting case, because its country is in economic turmoil, and bitcoin is used to store people's wealth for the long term. It's no surprise honestly that the volume is picking up.

I expect the figures for BTC volumes in Venezuela to continue to go up. Only nations that are affected by an economic crisis will realize what BTC can truly bring as a stable long term store of value. Again, things like this make me believe in BTC's long term growth.

BTC has broken the $9k barrier quite decisive at the moment.

I wouldn't just to conclusions just yet and say that bitcoin is going to jump into a bull market from this point on, because we have no idea whether or not this will be sustained. Since prices rose so quickly and by so much I'm leaning towards this being a short term pump that won't result in an actual bull market.

I just don't think that bitcoin has consolidated long enough for this to be the start of an actual bull market. 2014's bear market lasted for more than a year before the prices actually bottomed out. I think we'll have to wait until at least Q3-Q4 of this year to see prices bottom out and consolidate fully.

The best thing to do is to contact support asap to notify them of this issue.

If you can confirm that Kraken has sent the amount and it's confirmed on that end, then it's definitely something on cryptopia's end that was not done right. I think that as jhenfelipe said, since there is only one deposit address on cryptopia per coin and you can't change it yourself, your friend *probably* deposited to the wrong coin's address. There are numerous bitcoin forks that are being traded, and they all have similar addresses.

You should check through all those coins with BTC in its name to see if he accidentally deposited to any of these addresses. Just copy their deposit address and search it up on a block explorer to see if any funds have went there or not. But again, let Cryptopia support know first, because even if you find which wallet you sent the funds to you'll require their assistance. Or, it could be something else entirely that is out of your control.

I do think that BTC is probably overbought at the moment.

This bull run will most likely end at around the $10k mark, when the resistance is too strong for the market to push through. Then the correction will probably take us down to $6k to test the support and see if it holds up within a few months. In February, the resistance was at $12k where bitcoin couldn't push through which caused the dump back to $6k. I don't think that resistance is that high this time.

I'm bullish on bitcoin long term, but honestly I don't see bitcoin's $6k level being the bottom of this bear market. More likely than not, prices will dip below that support temporarily before forming a bottom and making a recovery upwards. This current rally isn't the rally that will end up being a bull market either. We need some more time for that.

We're already in a bull run already, and we don't know how much longer it will last. Depends a lot on whether BTC is able to hit $10k.

To me, it actually signals that the markets are quite overheated, and will probably correct very soon.

Instead of money being in BTC, the rest of the crypto markets are preferred as an investment at this stage. This means that a lot of people are in the crypto market right now for quick profits and will unload quite easily, instead of holding for the long term.

Bitcoin dominance usually decreases in a bull market, and increases in a bear market. Just look at how quickly bitcoin dominance decreased in the month of December. Sooner or later, the Bitcoin dominance index will have to return to its resting place, which in my opinion is around 50-60% naturally. That'll happen as soon as this bull run ends.

Thanks for posting this in the correct format. Rare sighting these days.

Hope you learned your lesson. Unfortunately the forum is flooded with scammers and you just need to be careful. As you said yourself, use escrow and you could have avoided all of this.  You shouldn't even trust high ranked members when it comes to sending first (unless they have a great amount of reputation), let alone a newbie with a suspicious username.

He's already redeemed the onevanilla. You could try contact OneVanilla and say that your card was scammed, and ask them where he spent the purchase on. But it'll be hard to track down, and you'll probably not get your funds back.

Spot on. If you trust someone to hold a large amount of bitcoins for you in a safe that is isolated from everyone, and has the best security available, it doesn't mean that you will have guaranteed access to your coins.

The most important thing to consider is actually how trustworthy Xapo is, instead of the procedure by which they store your coins.

Because at the end of the day, Xapo owes you the balance you've deposited with them. No matter how securely they store the coins, you still have no direct access to your coins. Getting a offline wallet storage is probably the better option than storage with Xapo, you'll have direct access to your coins at all times.

That is assuming if bitcoin continues its dominant growth shown through the last week.

I personally don't think that we're going to see an all time high being broken this year. We very rarely see markets make a full recovery and go on an ultra-bull run that fast, within 1 year. As I've said, I feel like although currently the rally may take us to $9.5k+, it's most likely not going to crack $10k yet. Even if it does, the downward selling pressure may start mounting soon after we're above 5 figures.

Also, bitcoin growth is never this regular. We never see every single week of the year being in the green.

I'm leaning towards 2020 as the next main bull market, it should be quite easy for BTC to crack the all time high set last year then. But this year, I don't think it's happening.

BTC is finding some solid support at $8k.

The major resistance of $8300 at which BTC hung around for a long while was broken, and today we see the price moving from $8.5k to $8.8k with a 6% gain in the past 24h. Seems like a solid rally and should last some longer.

We may test the $9k support by the end of today, and if broken, will probably trigger prices to go up straightaway to around $9.2k before correcting down.

Just beware of fomo buying in these situations, price is indeed increasing fast, but I feel like the resistance is still extremely strong at 5 figures and it'll be hard to crack that during this pump. That may lead to a sizable correction/dump at the end.

We've definitely sen BTC make some positive moves over the last few weeks.

But to me, I don't see this as a start of a bull market. There is simply not enough momentum, in my opinion, for this short term rally to completely reverse the overall market sentiment from bearish to bullish yet.

But the signs are here for this rally to last a bit longer, possibly until the end of the month before any sort of legitimate correction comes. Obviously, there is the tax day bullish indication. And now, the price has hit $8.5k which is a strong sign that BTC will test $9k soon, and if breached, will go on to test $10k. However, that's where I think the ceiling for price growth really is for this rally, around the $10k level. After that, we may fall again into the previous bear market. I do see a strong recovery in 2019-2020, where the real bull market will emerge.

Nobody should have trusted them in the first place. History have proven them to be untrustworthy. The only reason to use them would be to use their shady investment scheme, or to trade shitcoin that will probably rob you in the end anyways. And you're right, even if the deposit goes through successfully to yobit, there is every possibility that all of a sudden the coin you're holding goes into "maintenance", which means that you can't trade or withdraw it until they resolve that issue.

I mean, it would be fine if they just had issues here and there, but at least respond to your customers. Isn't that's what customer support is for?

OP, have you received any sort of reply from Yobit yet? I did hear somewhere that if you translate your tickets to Russian, it would help speed up response. However, there is no confirmed proof this works. You might want to give it a shot since there's nothing to lose anyways.

That sucks. IIRC Yobit offers 0.2% per day on BTC investments which is shady as hell. They justify that by saying payments are made from a "special fund" which makes absolutely no sense and doesn't explain anything. That should have been an alarm bell already.

So even if you actually invested and pressed the right buttons, you're investing in an extremely high risk investment that is most likely a ponzi, and is only backed by the reputation of a shady company in yobit.

Unfortunately, I do not think that you have much of a chance of getting this issue resolved with yobit support. They are known to be consistently one of the worst support teams out there. They won't even respond to your messages or even give a negative response.

Just try to avoid yobit or anything that they offer, it's not worth it.

The economy cannot continue heading upwards with unsustainable growth forever, some time, some way, it will reset.

In the next financial crisis, it's important to hold some assets that are independent and excluded from the fiat monetary system. Gold and silver are both safe haven investments that has been proven to hold their value in the long run.

But IMO, bitcoin will join that group of safe haven investments soon as well, as it has all the qualities that gold & silver has as a form of value, except more convenient. The reason why a lot of people choose to hold BTC in the first place is to hedge against a black swan event like this that hits the fiat system hard.

I wouldn't say that BTC will go to $40k this year or the next, that's a lot to ask for. But it'll definitely happen within 5 years imho.

Honestly, regardless of what the market is going to go to in the future, it's clear that if you're holding your coins for the long run, selling now would be a dumb idea. We're closer to the bottom now than the fall that took us from the all time high to here. There is very little room for BTC to fall after 4 months of straight dumping. Selling now is literally giving others cheap coins.

I don't think that we'll see another big rally after this one in the first half of the year.

BTC markets are still bearish atm, I think prices may actually slide below the $6k bottom for a short amount of time before the actual recovery occurs. Traders usually overreact to bearish news, and I think they definitely will after the correction of this rally happens.

But we're definitely in the accumulation phase right now, as you mentioned. It would not surprise me if whales are currently accumulating the hell as well. There is really no reason why you shouldn't accumulate and hold when there is a ton of institutional investors fresh into the market either.

I'm getting this message in my LBC account recently:

I have not received any emails, however.

They've just recently implemented the rule where you have to be verified to create advertisements/offers on Localbitcoins. So it does make sense that they may want to implement KYC procedures for active traders as well.

Although this is honestly expected from them because they are situated in Finland, and regulations and restrictions from the government had to happen sooner or later. It's going to take a lot of volume away from LBC because a lot of people use it solely for the reason of convenience and anonymity, both of which would be gone.

Seems like Japan's financial services agency is really cracking down on crypto exchanges so far.

They did issue a warning to Binance, just a few weeks before this announcement. I really don't think that shutting their services to one country will reduce their costs that much, especially when you consider the fact that Japan is among the top bitcoin trading nations.

To me, this looks more like Japan's FSA pressuring them into moving away from the Japanese market since they're not really registered or regulated by them, and there may be bigger consequences in the future. But there should still be a lot of native japanese exchanges left, CMIIW.

Nice to hear, but support at first didn't mention anything of that nature and kept babbling on about verification right?

I mean, double deposit was their fault from the beginning, and then they had the terrible support speaking nonsense, and only after 2 weeks do they resolve the issue finally. It's good that they have resolved it in the end, but that took way too much time.

I don't know about you, but based on OP's experience alone, I'd rather steer clear of Huobi Pro. If the issue was something more serious, don't expect the support to ever assist you in the process of trying to fixing it efficiently.