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-snip- My question is that if the RBFed transaction gets finally confirmed, will it be recognized by the exchange?
I was curious ; so I did a small test. I sent some satoshis with a 26 sat/vB fee. Waited for eXch to detect the transaction. Bumped the fee to 44 sat/vB. The exchange was successful, I received my coins. I think the service only consider the first transaction with 1 confirmation to the address given for the swap, no matter what the interface is displaying (the interface indeed did not update the txid when I did RBF until the deposit got 1 confirmation)
Thank you for the heads-up, paid2! And many thanks to eXch for all these raffles! One more to go and half of them will be finished... I announced this raffle too in the Romanian translation of OP and NeuroticFish did the same inside the thread dedicated for contests ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Good luck! Thank you to both of you GazetaBitcoin and NeuroticFish for sharing the raffles in your locale section ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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We have recently discovered that some service named "MrStork" has advertised an exchange platform on this forum with a rip off of our web-design. While we have no evidence (for now) that this specific service is a scam scheme, we believe it is a potential scam scheme since nobody with proper ethics would blatantly rip-off other service's web-design and advertise as a new platform. There was already an "exchange" that ripped off our design completely called SWP[.]CX and was proven to belong to a known scammer (more information here https://anir0y-scams.info). There are however already some signs that "MrStork" might be related to that scammer. We also believe that MrStork might be responsible for recent DDoS attacks targeting eXch because the stylometrics used in their announcement thread match emails containing threats we received from the DDoSer. We strongly recommend avoiding any services that are blatant and obvious copycats of other known and established services.
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We have recently discovered that some service named "MrStork" has advertised an exchange platform on this forum with a rip off of our web-design. While we have no evidence (for now) that this specific service is a scam scheme, we believe it is a potential scam scheme since nobody with proper ethics would blatantly rip-off other service's web-design and advertise as a new platform.
If you remember I was the one who first notified you guys about this suspicious clone ''exchange'' a while ago ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) It was obvious to me they used everything from eXch and made some silly excuses when I asked them about this in their ann topic.
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A little clarity for those who have never tested eXch. Even though you can ostensibly choose "BTC/BTC", you will not be able to make an exchange. Perhaps sometime in the future the eXch team will rework the anatomy of the drop-down list so that the "Exchange rate not found for BTC/BTC" notification is instantly displayed when you select "BTC/BTC". But to be honest, this is not so important since you will receive this notification as soon as you try to enter your Bitcoin address or click the “Ex/Calculate” button
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Perhaps sometime in the future the eXch team will rework the anatomy of the drop-down list so that the "Exchange rate not found for BTC/BTC" notification is instantly displayed when you select "BTC/BTC". I think this will require javascript, and as far as I can see, eXch does not have anything other than html and a bootstrap css script in their main page. It's good that they have taken care of not including bloatware in the front-end; most of the operations happen on the back-end, as should. They have not stated eXch is non-javascript AFAIK, so they might introduce it at some point, even though I don't see a reason. Being told that BTC/BTC is not available, might be discomforting (for those who want to mix?), but it's harmless. Edit: They have said eXch has no javascript in here.
Question: I see that affiliation program is available. If so, since eXch is non-KYC, what prevents someone from using their own affiliation link when exchanging to, essentially, reduce the fee?
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Question: I see that affiliation program is available. If so, since eXch is non-KYC, what prevents someone from using their own affiliation link when exchanging to, essentially, reduce the fee? Good question, in any case, when you want to withdraw your coins from your affiliate link, you have to contact support and send them your public affiliate links. I imagine that based on social media posts, dates, shares etc... they get an idea of the affiliate's credibility?
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Question: I see that affiliation program is available. If so, since eXch is non-KYC, what prevents someone from using their own affiliation link when exchanging to, essentially, reduce the fee? Better to get official reply from the team, but what I heard is that affiliate application needs to be manually reviewed and approved by eXch admin for withdrawal to work. This is usually used by their partners who are using them as third party exchange or someone who is big influencer in the crypto space.
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Hello there.. I'm getting these warnings from Malwarebytes and I want to know if it's just me and the reason behind this: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkimg.com%2Fimages%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2FrW7Ro.png&t=665&c=-0Gk8SeCJnIcYQ)
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Hello there..
I'm getting these warnings from Malwarebytes and I want to know if it's just me and the reason behind this:
I have a browser with Malwarebytes extension, it didn't find anything suspicious on exch.cx site. I also visit exch regularly and have never had a warning like yours. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftalkimg.com%2Fimages%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2FreuIc.png&t=665&c=wLLQ4izcnP4gEw)
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I have a browser with Malwarebytes extension, it didn't find anything suspicious on exch.cx site. I also visit exch regularly and have never had a warning like yours.
Thanks for your comments.. MB has a lot of false-positives anyway, some days it even blocks government websites. Just opened eXch website now and it's working fine (MB didn't show any warning this time).
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Is eXch.cx down? Not loading from my side (but the onion website is ok)
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Is eXch.cx down? Not loading from my side (but the onion website is ok)
It took it's time to load up ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) , but it did load up from my side. Chrome, Windows, clearnet.
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Is eXch.cx down? Not loading from my side (but the onion website is ok)
I can confirm that everything works fine on my end, and opening all pages is very fast without any issues. I have no doubt eXch website is under constant ddos attacks all the time, and that could create some periodic slowdowns for some people.
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Is eXch.cx down? Not loading from my side (but the onion website is ok)
+1 for those for whom everything works quite fast. @paid2 have you paid your internet bill? ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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I had problems to connect today early (about half an hour it was down for me, then it worked fine), and just tried now and got a timeout/503 again (both on clearnet and onion). So there was/is probably an "intermittent" DDoS attack going on.
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Is eXch.cx down? Not loading from my side (but the onion website is ok)
You can also take a look at the status pages on one of the mirrors that works in case something doesn't feel right. Last major incident was in March
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May 14, 2024, 10:02:03 AM Last edit: May 14, 2024, 01:42:52 PM by eXch |
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
We got hardware failure on our backend engine's node therefore the service is currently unavailable. We have verified it is not a coldboot attack and server was not rebooted.
The web stack is already being migrated to another server and datacenter.
The maintenance/migration should take up to 12 hours.
Will update this post once it's complete and provide more details.
UPDATE:
It was a false-positive alarm. Usually when such an event happens we assume the worst, however after performing careful inspection of the server we have found no evidence of physical hardware access attempts (no disks were pulled, no RAM sticks were pulled, no reboot was performed, USB ports had no abnormal plug-ins/outs, etc). It was a hardware failure related to a network card kernel driver bug resulting into kernel panic.
We have performed a soft-reboot of the server, inspected the bootloader for possible hijack attempts and changed the disk encryption key. We will however migrate to another server during this month since this hardware doesn't seem to be reliable. Server reboots is not what we want at all because they are the most powerful indicator to determine state actor originating attacks.
The maintenance will be finished briefly.
SERVICE UPDATE #2:
Our frontend servers (that are unrelated to the server in the above announcement) are getting DDoSed every Monday by some mad guy sending us emails with threats who seem to pay different DDoS-for-hire services each time thus we temporarily have to recur to IP-based bans on our clearnet servers firewalls till they calm down, however we believe that a chance of our filtering affecting normal customers is minor. If you can't reach the service just try using Tor.
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Hardware failure... well, I know how that feels. Good luck with your data transfer and I hope that it goes speedily and smoothly. Better to get official reply from the team, but what I heard is that affiliate application needs to be manually reviewed and approved by eXch admin for withdrawal to work. This is usually used by their partners who are using them as third party exchange or someone who is big influencer in the crypto space.
That is true. I haven't even emailed them my application yet. We have recently discovered that some service named "MrStork" has advertised an exchange platform on this forum with a rip off of our web-design. While we have no evidence (for now) that this specific service is a scam scheme, we believe it is a potential scam scheme since nobody with proper ethics would blatantly rip-off other service's web-design and advertise as a new platform. There was already an "exchange" that ripped off our design completely called SWP[.]CX and was proven to belong to a known scammer (more information here https://anir0y-scams.info). There are however already some signs that "MrStork" might be related to that scammer. We also believe that MrStork might be responsible for recent DDoS attacks targeting eXch because the stylometrics used in their announcement thread match emails containing threats we received from the DDoSer. We strongly recommend avoiding any services that are blatant and obvious copycats of other known and established services. *Sigh* When I finish migrating my servers I will have a lot of modifications to make to BitMixList. I suggest you file an abuse report. That should at least cause their upstream provider to filter their internet traffic, if it's not some bulletproof host that ignores such things.
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