Damn. That sucks... I'm also leaning towards regulations being the main culprit. Their vision talk gave it away for me: While we had much more planned for LocalCryptos, unfortunately we believe that internal and external factors prevent our small team from fully achieving our vision.
....While any of these alone are not the sole reason, they are each motivating factors in our decision. We weighed up all the options, attempted various alternative solutions to keep the LocalCryptos vision alive, but in the end we made the decision to gradually end our services What could it be other than their main selling points e.g. no kyc, encrypted messages, etc.? which means if they were to introduce KYC/AML polices in their platform, it'd become the shell of its former self. |
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However, I am unsure of the safety of random people walking in your store...
It’s the risk you have to bear just like any finance business, since we won't be able to know who's keeping tabs of who. But there should be ways to minimize it e.g. avoid shady neighborhood, control how much your employees know/can do, also secure your home, setup decoy wallets, etc.. Try to look up articles about it online plus you could also observe similar businesses in your area. |
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I tried visiting CoinsMarkets.com, and it redirects to OP's bitcoinsmarter.net/coinsmarkets. I think there's a connection. What is even more weird is that bitcoinsmarter.net looks like an exchange too. It might be a scam on top of another scam  It could be that someone took over. I just don't think that coinsmarkets who took their time to stall users before disappearing completely would show up using their old name-- because the redirect links them with one another. But yeah, a quick look at bitcoinsmarter.net and it screamed shady af lol. |
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Is that Coinmarkets.io?
I can't access that website and it says, "Connection denied by IP2Location Country Blocker" it might be what you meant the link that you gave above was the alternative one right?
No offense but why the link that you gave doesn't have a record of who.is?
It was coinsmarkets.com. I'm not entirely sure if they had another domain but most likely not given how their exchange screamed tight budget. What happened back then was coinsmarkets exit scammed but they first tried to stall users by giving loads of excuses which went for weeks or months (?) until they finally went MIA, see this mega thread about it: CoinsMarkets.com IS DOWN! |
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I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to get across? Did you want to reminisce? or are you implying that coinsmarkets themselves are behind the website? because we would need a stronger evidence for that as websites gets copied a lot without permission.
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Titanex doesn't seem to know what they were talking about... but that's because their TOS and privacy policy is copied from changenow.io so let's cut them some slack 😌 Short snippets: 2.3. By using the "Fixed Exchange Rate" you acknowledge and agree that the fixed exchange rate may differ from the classic exchange rate.
ChangeNOW shall complete the exchange if the following requirements are met:
We received the crypto asset in a short time after the User created the exchange. It is important to note that a payment transmitted to the blockchain network does not mean that ChangeNOW accepts this payment. The number of payment confirmations is determined by us depending on the blockchain.The user sent the crypto asset to a specially generated address on the exchange page. Addresses for each exchange are disposable and cannot be used again.The user sent the exact amount that was displayed on the website, as well as took into account all relevant withdrawal fees and network fees. 2.2. By using the "Fixed Exchange Rate" you acknowledge and agree that the fixed exchange rate may differ from the classic exchange rate.
Titanex shall complete the exchange if the following requirements are met:
We received the crypto asset in a short time after the User created the exchange. It is important to note that a payment transmitted to the blockchain network does not mean that Titanex accepts this payment. The number of payment confirmations is determined by us depending on the blockchain.The user sent the crypto asset to a specially generated address on the exchange page. Addresses for each exchange are disposable and cannot be used again. The user sent the exact amount that was displayed on the website, as well as took into account all relevant withdrawal fees and network fees. 1. Protection of the personal information
We will not permit any third parties to contact you directly on an unsolicited basis in relation to their own products or services. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. You should never disclose your account password to unauthorized parties. We use certain security measures to help keep your personal information safe, but we cannot guarantee that these measures will stop any users try to get around the privacy or security settings on the Website through unforeseen and/or illegal activity. 2. Protection of the personal information
We will not permit any third parties to contact you directly on an unsolicited basis in relation to their own products or services. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We use certain security measures to help keep your personal information safe, but we cannot guarantee that these measures will stop any users trying to get around the privacy or security settings on the Website through unforeseen and/or illegal activity. |
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Funds will never be blocked in any case.
But doesn't this count as well? 3.5. In extremely limited cases, when a User attempts to mislead our automated risk management system, Titanex reserves the right to freeze your exchange transaction for any period of time necessary to complete the AML procedure untraceability and anonymity guaranteed? how? because you don't ask for kyc? cause that's really misleading specially since the exchange [like every other CEX] collects and share user information to third parties which helps in connecting the dots. 4. Personal Data4.1. By accepting these Terms, you expressly allow Titanex to process your personal data, and export your personal data outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside or are located
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4.2. We are entitled to transfer some User data (including, but not limited to Blockchain addresses, IP addresses, User Agents, Browser window dimensions, Browser languages, Browser date and time, HTML Canvas data) to our business partners or governmental bodies at their request to facilitate the prevention and disclosure of prohibited or illegal actions. By accepting these Terms, you acknowledge and agree to your personal data may be transferred in this way. |
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Did you mean "with deposit bonus"? i don't see how no deposit bonus would specifically help entice people, it's usually the other way around.
If so, check bybit's and coinbase's referral programs. Afaik, even the referees get few bucks if they deposit and trade certain amounts. Do read the terms and conditions for this so you know all the prerequisites that should be satisfied. But ofc I do not recommend solely signing up for deposit bonuses.
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I think joining discord crypto communities is fine long as you aren't purposely joining shady servers like anything that has to do with signals. I myself have joined the discord servers of some projects/service I'm following. Yes, scam DMs are rampant but there's an option to block DMs from non-friends which for the most part does the trick.
If you happen to find a better community and want to get notified of announcements and anything similar. Ask the admins if they could do @everyone every time or better yet, setup optional roles to ping using well known bots like probot, carl bot, etc. Depending on their setup, you could also try getting pinged for every messages in a single channel (e.g. #thisisachannel) by right clicking the said channel > notification settings > all messages.
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For the "local p2p" does it have to be with friends? or you mean any in person/F2F trades will do? Because In my case, only a very few people IRL knows i dabble into crypto and I have never considered trading with them since I'll have to start a whole ted talk about the whole thing (bc they're beginners) which I have no energy for lol.
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What did the support say to you? is there no chance of leniency for your situation? especially if the restriction is mostly just because of VPN... or is there something more?
This is also another reason to spill which website are we talking about here. Sometimes it could really make difference when things are publicized, who knows perhaps they're active here as well?
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Care to elaborate?
Account from which website are we talking about here? By "connect to it from poland", do you mean access it from a Poland IP? or verify the account for you?
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I suggest giving an update in your original thread so people have a better gist of the current situation and can provide better suggestions. If you don't know where to look for VPNs, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5372131.0I wonder if OP can also access binance's social media channels. I just saw a tweet saying their instagram profile is also blocked in malaysia... |
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Or try a VPN with LocalBitcoin.
KYC is mandatory so I'm afraid VPNs won't help with the restriction. Even if KYC is not mandatory, it's not advisable to do so due to the nature of CEXes where they hold their users funds and can request KYC at any time. Try Bybit P2P exchange feature which US citizen is still allowed to use.
Sadly, united states is restricted according from their TOS: We do not offer services or products to Users in a few excluded jurisdictions including the United States, |
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$1400 is a limit for trading with fiat currencies, not cryptocurrencies. I didn't just clarify, but thanks for pointing it out. https://i.imgur.com/xBLpMtd.jpgHold up. I think you missed the "available benefits for successful verification". If such a registration fits into the category "without KYC", then okay, FTX then also fits. Looks like a soft kyc/verification to me, perhaps an honorable mention would be a better fit for ftx.com? |
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