Head, meet desk.
The idea that anyone would actually encourage yet more citizen finance just boggles. It is not the fact that play exchanges were "in the US" that caused their shutdown. It is the very fact that they were run by unqualified people catering to anyone and everyone imagining themselves capable on the basis of passion and nebulous "hard work" that caused, and will continue to cause, their demise.
No one wants to be scammed or lose their money here but Play Exchange is not a word that comes to mind looking at Havelock or Crypto-Trade. My reasons for suggesting Crypto-Trade over others is because I have come to have trust and faith in it from the months that I have been using it, and so far there has not been any behavior exhibited by the site that has caused me to panic or be concerned, I cannot say the same of other crypto-coin sites some who will at very short notice and at no consideration to their users will remove coins (panic dump recently
), are changing/removing currency pairs, or even worse they got hacked/corrupted DB/wallets are just a few examples. This type of behavior has lost many traders money as the site made their holdings disappear, worth less or just plain worthless.
On CryptoTrade I have noticed that the support from the site towards their users has been professional and courteous in chat and AFAIK no one there has lost their BTC, altcoins or FIAT stored there. Some people have experienced delays longer then stated max of 24 hours when withdrawing their FIAT (they usually vent in chat about it) but from what i can tell its solved in a reasonable amount of time and the integrated messaging system (another feature only found on this exchange!) allows the site to send a private message to site users and keep them apprised. Users can even message each other.
Now that the site has expanded to integrate a securities exchange, dividends are added to your existing balance on the site, so I won't need to wait for smallish dividends to accrue so I can withdraw or to mature in my wallet so its not eaten up by tx fees. Its there on the site ready for my use.
The launch of the securities is not something just happened overnight, it was mentioned over a month ago as something being considered after the closure of those other exchanges, and has now progressed to becoming a reality this week. It seems to me that alot planning and assessment has gone into it before it was launched, and so I am more confident about using this site then any of the others. Any securities that pass the verification satisfactory for their listing can be sure that users of the site will consider investing in them there because of the added security and convenience provided.
I hope you can take a decent look at the site and point out any concerns or potential problems that are specific to Crypto-Trade, there is always going to be some risk but I think they got it down to minimal and if there existed a ratings system for crypto exchanges/securities they would be in the A's.
Full text on Trilema, chronicling for those of you who either missed it or weren't paying attention Cryptostocks' subconscious spelling out of why investing does not and cannot take place on its "platform", from the guy's defective self-IPO all the way to the recent listing of Dragon's Tale by some random scammer with no actual affiliation with the game.
Thanks for the link, I hope more users read it as its very informative and will save them from using high risk sites.