Wow. Some not so bright people in this thread.
The ECA wallet, like nearly every other qt wallet, can trigger false flags for trojan virus. There is no virus in the wallet. Even if there were a virus, it would have nothing to do with CoinsMarkets.com going down.
However, ECA did crash CoinsMarkets.com because at the time it was the most popular coin on the site by a large margin and the only site where it was available. It drove huge amounts of traffic to the site and the site has now been trying to create new infrastructure to meet demand. It also drew attention to itself and CM was victim of DDOS attacks. Things CM probably should have been prepared for but it was a low tier exchange in a budding market, this sort of thing is to be expected. If you haven't noticed, all exchanges are having this problem now due to the flood of new blood into the cryptosphere, if you haven't noticed most exchanges have had to stop new user registrations for this reason.
ECA, and to a lesser extent Colx, drove a huge amount of traffic to coinsmarkets and put them on the map. They know this and are actively trying to capitalize on it. They haven't run off with anyone's coins, if they did they wouldn't even bother keeping up the charade. They have too much to lose establishing themselves as a legit exchange.
Finally, I'd like some of what the conspiracy theorist above who thinks ECA and coinsmarkets are in it together is smoking please. That was about as far away from a logical explanation as one can get.
The ECA wallet, like nearly every other qt wallet, can trigger false flags for trojan virus. There is no virus in the wallet. Even if there were a virus, it would have nothing to do with CoinsMarkets.com going down.
However, ECA did crash CoinsMarkets.com because at the time it was the most popular coin on the site by a large margin and the only site where it was available. It drove huge amounts of traffic to the site and the site has now been trying to create new infrastructure to meet demand. It also drew attention to itself and CM was victim of DDOS attacks. Things CM probably should have been prepared for but it was a low tier exchange in a budding market, this sort of thing is to be expected. If you haven't noticed, all exchanges are having this problem now due to the flood of new blood into the cryptosphere, if you haven't noticed most exchanges have had to stop new user registrations for this reason.
ECA, and to a lesser extent Colx, drove a huge amount of traffic to coinsmarkets and put them on the map. They know this and are actively trying to capitalize on it. They haven't run off with anyone's coins, if they did they wouldn't even bother keeping up the charade. They have too much to lose establishing themselves as a legit exchange.
Finally, I'd like some of what the conspiracy theorist above who thinks ECA and coinsmarkets are in it together is smoking please. That was about as far away from a logical explanation as one can get.
What makes me upset is that coinmarket did not post any public statement that I can see nor kept us in the loop!!
Their announcement has always been updated under the menu bar. Just because you don't like it, that's your issue.
agree 100%
