About missing payouts:
It seems like a few pools (still?) haven't updated their wallets, which means they "pay" you, but you will never get the coins in your own new wallet. Those are lost, as the pool have already put transfers into blocks which are either on a fork or orphaned. This is very dangerous as it has completely dried out some pools of coins, which basically means one thing - everything that happened since KGW is lost. Coins transferred, and coins mined.
This also happened to dedicatedpool, who noticed in time, and at that time had paid 14.000 Coino, which are now lost. Luckly the admin still had lots of spare coins in the pool wallet, so he re-payed everyone, so noone lost any coins.
I don't mine Coino there myself, but big props to binaryclock (dedicatedpool admin) for this!
About coinmarket.io:
Yes, it has been down for ages.
Are we being scammed? Likely not.
I fully understand everyone who has/had any crypto in there is really worried, especially since there has been far too little communication from coinmarket.
So now you likely want to know why I think coinmarket is not scamming, so let my sum it up:
- Coinmarket rarely, but daily comes up online for just a few minutes - why wouldn't scammers just leave it down?
- There are several reports of people withdrawing their crypto there. I myself withdrew my Coino holding from there yesterday, with no issues at all. Why would scammers let the users withdraw their cryptos?
- Some - possible real, but also possible fake - information was revealed about the coinmarket admin. Either the guy is fairly good framed, or it really is the admin. After looking around, my personal opinion is that it is high likely that it really is him, and in that case, it seems like he is a nice and well respected guy, with great skills in the computer world. This also matches with some of my earlier conversations with him on irc, back when coinmarket was still fully functional.
Then, why the hell did I withdraw my money, if I don't think coinmarket is scamming?
Just as you, I am nervous. Crypto is all about taking risk, and even though I knew my coins could get stuck when I attemped to withdraw them, I still did it. There was a risk of loosing them - so was there, if I didn't withdraw.
I first did a test transfer which was successful, and then proceeded with the rest of my holding. Few seconds after, the site went down again.
In case you want to try and get your crypto out, you should also test it, for several reasons:
- The wallet could be outdated --> your coins will be lost!
- The wallet could be offline --> withdrawal won't work, likely just a very small risk of loosing the coins
- There could be other bugs, so always test if you are unsure!
- I know that coinmarket is programmed in an always "expect this and this" state. If something unexpected occurs, the site goes offline until the admin manually restarts it. This is for security means - if anyone tried to exploit something, the site will (or really, should) go down, so the admin can inspect what was going on. This also means if something in the wallet is bugged, and you do a transfer, you could really crash the server yourself, with your own transaction, and maybe loose your coins. This is especially risk now, as they are patching coin daemons to prevent the same thing which happened to poloniex.
If you have any corrections/remarks about anything above, let me know!
Guys, does anyone else have this issue?