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[paid2]

Thanks again paid2 & eXch! I just joined the raffle

I also posted raffle in the Romanian translation of OP and also inside the Romanian thread dedicated for contests.

Thank you for sharing the raffle dear Gazeta!

I also wanted to ask paid2 if he managed to make some more progress with reporting the remaining websites impersonating eXch... Also, meanwhile the list became bigger...

Yes, I reported them all (at least the online ones), as well as CF and Google Phishing report!

However for now there are few results, only warnings are present but the domains are still online for some of them.

[BitMaxz]

Everyone is welcome to join the 16^th Free Raffle to try to win a nice Custom eXch Cryptosteel Capsule! 

[FREE RAFFLE] - Custom eXch Cryptosteel Capsule (#16)!

Thanks paid2 and also eXch for the new raffle I submitted my predicted number I hope to be selected.
Good luck to everyone who joined.

[GazetaBitcoin]

Thank you for sharing the raffle dear Gazeta!

As always, a pleasure

Yes, I reported them all (at least the online ones), as well as CF and Google Phishing report!

Thank you, paid2! Did you report also the websites mentioned after that post I made? I mean these ones:

• site5.spam.com -- spotted by hosseinimr93
• site6.spam.com || site7.spam.com || site8.spam.com -- spotted by SFR10

However for now there are few results, only warnings are present but the domains are still online for some of them.

Here we can only hope for the best... In any case, I saw that Lucius also reported these last sites so, maybe more reports will help...

[paid2]

Thank you, paid2! Did you report also the websites mentioned after that post I made? I mean these ones:

• site5.spam.com -- spotted by hosseinimr93
• site6.spam.com || site7.spam.com || site8.spam.com -- spotted by SFR10

Yes! ecxh[dot]cx is also reported, exch[dot]exchange as well. The 2 others aren't hosted or online, I don't think we can do much for now..

Here we can only hope for the best... In any case, I saw that Lucius also reported these last sites so, maybe more reports will help...

Yeah, all reports are always greatly appreciated!
The link shared by Lucius (https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en ) is very nice, as it can be used to warn users while waiting for other reports to give more results, for example with exch|dot]exchange:

[Lucius]

@paid2, it's good that at least one link has been positively resolved (at least as far as the warning is concerned), although I reported both links at the same time with the same explanation, and it would be logical if the other one was handled in the same way (which is not the case at the moment).

[eXch Support]

For questions asked in the ANN relating to the service but not directly to specifics orders/exchanges, we will make a grouped answer punctually.

Will you add new networks/tokens/coins in the future?

Yes, but only reliable ones and turns our there are very few exist with a such characteristic.

Any opinion on L-BTC?

We are all for adding Liquid BTC and currently there are lots of tests and development process screening undergoing, which means we will have it in the near future (no ETA).

I keep asking myself why they don't start using a more traditional domain in order to avoid these types of errors on the user's side.

We will either (a) have exch.net as our corporate site that will point to current platform domains (exch.cx and Tor address) or (b) completely move the platform to exch.net. We are still in a process of making a decision on that with no ETA.

Maybe you should add this information in the exch.cx main page, showing all the support you make to important privacy projects

Already in the TODO list. Changes and additions like that require a lot of time to implement on our platform. Our main focus is our engine reliability and the platform security. Cosmetic and other stuff like that will always have lowest priority.

I know we are not like other platforms that care about their media posts and visual aspects more than their service quality, but that's the main reason why we have biggest volume among non-KYC exchanges at the moment. Who knows - knows for that for sure.

[Pmalek]

Yes, but only reliable ones and turns our there are very few exist with a such characteristic.

What characteristics and features does a coin and its network need to possess to be considered reliable in your interpretation of the term? Your team has responded positively to certain coins but also rejected some others. One cryptocurrency that has a chance of being supported is solana. However, this is a coin that has had several instances of complete breakdown of its blockchain, where nobody was able to transact with it. To me, that's not very reliable, but I would like to hear what you think is and isn't reliable.

[dkbit98]

We are all for adding Liquid BTC and currently there are lots of tests and development process screening undergoing, which means we will have it in the near future (no ETA).

Good news.
Since you are already in process of adding L-BTC don't forget to also add L-USDT, this should be a good alternative for someone who needs stablecoins without using any altcoin blockchains, and fees are almost zero.
I still prefer to use main chains, but it's easy to swap all Liquid assets back to on-chain Bitcoin.

[joker_josue]

I keep asking myself why they don't start using a more traditional domain in order to avoid these types of errors on the user's side.

We will either (a) have exch.net as our corporate site that will point to current platform domains (exch.cx and Tor address) or (b) completely move the platform to exch.net. We are still in a process of making a decision on that with no ETA.

That is good. But, you should really check this situation, as it is something that is periority.

[eXch]

Our ~1 BTC donation to Thorchain developers: e21424bcd1e59735b5d4b43e70b59d1985e148411e6c197112207cd4c4524ea7

A few months ago, we were put at risk of losing 10 BTC due to a misconfigured transaction coming from our node to the Thorchain network (bb7bab03caa29fd7b6ef1c169f53bb86e47fb75c016d7503540f7420441ad60b) that was made by our automation systems with a purpose of rebalancing our liquidity.

Since Thorchain does not support taproot transactions (despite of how weird it might sound), our 10 BTC swap request was not settled by their network and ignored, resulting into burned 10 BTC. However, some of their heroic devs took the initiative and coded a special patch for their core node software with an exclusive purpose of rescuing our burned funds:

https://gitlab.com/thorchain/thornode/-/merge_requests/3569

That commit was approved, merged and became live in one of the next releases, which due to its code logic precision allowed to "rescue" the funds pulling them out of the network, and that happened in 1031489698c57c45b0797624b844c4f96800902b81a291c4d383cf62f818901c

Due to the fact the "rescued" funds turned into a property of Thorchain developers after the procedure, we had a discussion with one of them (Aquila_9R from Nine Realms, Inc.) on confirmation of some details, where we expressed our disposal and approval to donate 10% of the "rescued" amount to (a) cover the developer work and (b) contribute to the future development of their project. We have then received 90% of the amount, 10% of which were preserved and kept by them as a form of donation ending at their address bc1quvcg26xdqhlhh9xj5juwx4emwkkx5lveywz2qr.

We are very happy with our long-term cooperation with Thorchain and their team, which allows us to boost our liquidity efficiency by a superior factor with minimal risks.

[paid2]

Good news! The phishing clone ecxh[dot]cx is now down:

We are very happy with our long-term cooperation with Thorchain and their team, which allows us to boost our liquidity efficiency by a superior factor with minimal risks.

As always, this donation is awesome!

An efficient and reactive dev team is great (and apparently pretty difficult to find ), it deserves to be highlighted!

[Lucius]

It's always good when the day starts with good news, and when you get 9 BTC that you thought were lost and when phishing domains fall one after another there is no reason not to be in a good mood

[paid2]

Thanks paid2 and also eXch for the new raffle I submitted my predicted number I hope to be selected.
Good luck to everyone who joined.

Good luck

We have still 17 slots available!

[FREE RAFFLE] - Custom eXch Cryptosteel Capsule (#16)!

[GazetaBitcoin]

Good news! The phishing clone ecxh[dot]cx is now down

At same time, also one of the links mentioned by SFR10 is down:



And another site mentioned by SFR10 is not accessible anymore. When trying to access it, at first, you receive a warning for phishing but, if you click on "Ignore and proceed", the site does not load. So two sites are down.



And more good news... the site spotted by JeromeTash is also down:



Finally, first two of the websites mentioned by BitMaxz are also down. Only third one still exists.

paid2, is this also your work?


In conclusion, only these 2 websites are still up:

• site7.spam.com -- spotted by SFR10

• site6.spam.com -- spotted by BitMaxz

[paid2]

--snip--

paid2, is this also your work?

I've mass reported "exch[dot]exchange", and it is still online, it pisses me off 

exch[dot]email were never hosted at my knowledge, same for exch[dot]contact, exch[dot]trade/site/zone etc.., so we can only monitor them in case of "future phishing".

[Cricktor]

I've mass reported "exch[dot]exchange", and it is still online, it pisses me off 

I report this site roughly daily when I've the time for it, using Brave-Tor-Browser to assure my reports come from "everywhere". A bit of a pain in the ass because I've to solve quite some captchas to prove I'm no robot. Not sure if the high number of captchas to solve is due to going through Tor.

[Lucius]

@Cricktor, Solving re-Captcha through Tor is a real pain and you only do it if you have no other choice. Therefore, for those who access the forum with Tor, there is an option to solve the captcha once and then have the possibility to use a unique link with which they can log in to the forum without a captcha.

[GazetaBitcoin]

I've mass reported "exch[dot]exchange", and it is still online, it pisses me off 

But it doesn't load anymore... I mentioned this in my previous post. When trying to access it, it's shown that page with the warning about phishing but, if you click on "Ignore & Proceed" nothing happens...

exch[dot]email were never hosted at my knowledge, same for exch[dot]contact, exch[dot]trade/site/zone etc.., so we can only monitor them in case of "future phishing".

From these websites you mentioned only the [dot]email and [dot]trade ones are accessible. First of them shows a message saying the page is under construction, while the other one shows a blank page. I think they can still be reported though... although they look harmless at the moment...

[Cricktor]

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I wasn't speaking of the re-captcha of this forum but rather the one at https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en. And thanks for mentioning the less painful workaround for the forum. I knew this already.

[eXch]

Proof of ~90% of our reserves is temporarily available to be consulted at our Bitcoin aggregation address bc1qu2dq8w8lv8v3l7lr2c5tvx3yltv22r3nhkx7w0 (known as "eXch cryptocurrency exchange" by all blockchain intelligence platforms)