BTER.com hacked| 7170 BTC stolen | DON'T KEEP YOUR MONEY ON AN EXCHANGE |

[almightyruler]

My system is reporting some fairly substantial arbitrage ops at the moment, between bter and other exchanges. Even buying LTC elsewhere, transferring to bter, selling it for some other currency, then selling back to BTC on another exchange will make a tidy profit. The last time this happened was right after bter blocked BTC withdrawals. Wondering if others are having problems logging in, and have decided to clear out, thus artificially pushing up prices?

[ewibit]

no withdrawal possible

DOGE

Code:

According to the local policy, we need to verifiy your identity (passport) at here

BTC, LTC

Code:

BTC withdrawal is disabled 因技术维护，虚拟币提取暂停，感谢您谅解和支持。

[deisik]

[...] but apart from the usual stuff like "your connection is insecure" (probably due to an expired SSL certificate), I was able to successfully login.

See above. https://www.bter.com/ (HTTP over SSL) redirects to http://bter.com/ (HTTP only). Your connection probably was insecure. 

Sometimes browsers are making me freak out with their useless "innovations"

For example, by hiding full address in the address bar. Anyway, I don't have anything at Bter (apart from dust) and I'm not going to use it in the future, so I don't really care (well, I know that I should). It seems like they don't have enough cash to prolong their SSL certificate and instead decided to redirect users to plain old http. The exchange obviously continues to spiral down. Nowadays it likely already generates negative cash flows, thus we'd better stay away from it altogether

[almightyruler]

Just successfully logged in. Didn't make any changes here, just thought I'd give it another go, and it worked.

I checked the account balances page, and the following coins have withdrawals disabled/restricted:

BTC
LTC
QTUM (this may be due to the ICO rather than legislative restrictions)
DOGE (requires verification including scan of passport, and photo of you holding your passport)

[spacec]

Test deposit hasn't shown up.

Last confirmed deposit is for the small and very oddly specific amount of 0.00000902 CNC  (??) about two years ago ... I can't find any corresponding send in my wallet, nor can I think of why I would send such a miniscule amount. So yeah, I think it's probably broken.

Would like to add that the test deposit has been credited now. I guess it doesn't show up until the 5000 confirms.

spacec, what about your deposit?

Sorry for a late answer, im still not used to this website.
My funds never showed up and a few days later they announced that they would stop withdrawal of BTC, lost some money there..

I do not use BTER any longer due to this.

[Hyena]

Bter stole some 7 BTC from me and now they intend to pay me back in CNY according to the BTC price at the time when they stole my BTC. So they list some BTER X BTRX 9,258.227565 under my account. I tried to withdraw PPC and my request was denied because of KYC verification. It really pissed me off but nevertheless I completed the KYC and it finally succeeded. So now my account is verified BUT WHEN I TRIED TO WITHDRAW AGAIN I WAS DENIED. Pics related.





Does anyone know what do I have to do to get my money out from this scammy bter piece of shit exchange? I verified my account sent them pics of my passport and what not and still they are not paying me the money that rightfully belongs to me. Has anyone been able to withdraw anything from bter lately?

[almightyruler]

I'm also seeing the KYC/passport scan thing now.

I don't have a passport.

Guess I just made a 0.1 BTC donation to bter!

[redsn0w]

Bter stole some 7 BTC from me and now they intend to pay me back in CNY according to the BTC price at the time when they stole my BTC. So they list some BTER X BTRX 9,258.227565 under my account. I tried to withdraw PPC and my request was denied because of KYC verification. It really pissed me off but nevertheless I completed the KYC and it finally succeeded. So now my account is verified BUT WHEN I TRIED TO WITHDRAW AGAIN I WAS DENIED. Pics related.





Does anyone know what do I have to do to get my money out from this scammy bter piece of shit exchange? I verified my account sent them pics of my passport and what not and still they are not paying me the money that rightfully belongs to me. Has anyone been able to withdraw anything from bter lately?

From what I've read on the internet no one have successfully withdrawn his money from bter.com

[deisik]

Does anyone know what do I have to do to get my money out from this scammy bter piece of shit exchange? I verified my account sent them pics of my passport and what not and still they are not paying me the money that rightfully belongs to me. Has anyone been able to withdraw anything from bter lately?

From what I've read on the internet no one have successfully withdrawn his money from bter.com

They seem to have just run out of money

It is obvious that they kept exchange afloat due to some likely futile hope that things would change somehow to the better (for example, the thief returns the stolen funds or someone buys them). A few years ago the competition in the field was not so tough, but today they have no chance to survive unless someone really decides to buy them. But why would anyone want that? It is easier to hire a few decent developers to start the business from scratch, anyway. It is a sort of miracle already that they managed to last that long

[almightyruler]

FYI: I've just cleared everything out using ZEC. The effective loss from doing BTC->ZEC on bter then ZEC->BTC on poloniex is about 10%.

I chose this coin because it ranks as one of the best solutions in my arb system, and the withdrawal fee is relatively low.

No guarantees it will work for you, but something to consider.

I decided to cash out my BTRX whilst I was at it because of the risk of being locked out of all withdrawals at some point (I have no passport)

[Amadues]

FYI: I've just cleared everything out using ZEC. The effective loss from doing BTC->ZEC on bter then ZEC->BTC on poloniex is about 10%.

I chose this coin because it ranks as one of the best solutions in my arb system, and the withdrawal fee is relatively low.

No guarantees it will work for you, but something to consider.

I decided to cash out my BTRX whilst I was at it because of the risk of being locked out of all withdrawals at some point (I have no passport)

Great! It's work! Finally I can get 8% of my total loss!

[Hugh Jass]

What happened to bter's trollbox? When I checked the site today it had disappeared, and it's always been there before. Has bter removed it to hide complaints made in it?

[deisik]

What happened to bter's trollbox? When I checked the site today it had disappeared, and it's always been there before. Has bter removed it to hide complaints made in it?

But did it ever work?

I knew that it was there but I never tried to use it myself and it didn't look functioning at all back in the day. Aside from that, I don't really like the idea of trollboxes. For example, Btce-e has a chatbox but I used it only once to ask some serious question about withdrawals (or something to that tune), and my question got completely lost and ignored in some shitty discussion. Bitfinex doesn't have this feature, and I don't think that they are in any way worse for the lack of it. So, maybe, Bter chose to get rid of it too. Anyway, it would require moderation but given the state of this exchange, there are likely no moderators there (and no one wanting to become them)

[bitbollo]

I have checked now my bter profile... and I don't have anymore btc pending/old btc stolen by bter in my account! Where this money gone? Their bullshit "we will pay you" it's finally ended?
I don't know why this happen but it's really sadly see this scam exchange already operating

[Hugh Jass]

I have checked now my bter profile... and I don't have anymore btc pending/old btc stolen by bter in my account! Where this money gone? Their bullshit "we will pay you" it's finally ended?
I don't know why this happen but it's really sadly see this scam exchange already operating

Bter's twitter says it plans to buy back all the BTRX very soon. Maybe that's why you don't have don't have anymore btc pending, or maybe not.

https://twitter.com/btercom/status/882069497951264769

We plan to buy back all the BTRX very soon and keep distributing part of our revenue to all the affected users.

Sadly the first comment to that tweet is by someone who can't login to bter.

Bulshit. Bter is a thief, my account can't login. finally balance of 0.2btc lost in eating by the owner

[bitbollo]

their reply sounds as a joke: Send a ticket



most of their user have experienced a lot of issues and ticket without reply

[nonn069]

i tried to compile the form with kyc documents, but ever print error...

[nonn069]

i tried to compile the form with kyc documents, but ever print error...

My kyc its approved but i can't do withdrawal my coins  

someone know any news?

its up or fake exchange hacked?

[almightyruler]

i tried to compile the form with kyc documents, but ever print error...

My kyc its approved but i can't do withdrawal my coins  

someone know any news?

its up or fake exchange hacked?

Fake: no
Hacked: maybe
Terrible support: YES

[nonn069]

i tried to compile the form with kyc documents, but ever print error...

My kyc its approved but i can't do withdrawal my coins  

someone know any news?

its up or fake exchange hacked?

Fake: no
Hacked: maybe
Terrible support: YES

when i'll take some news , i'll write here, i must try to sell all altcoins and move btc...staytuned