Topic: eXch - instant exchange BTC / LN / XMR / LTC / ETH / ERC20 - page 45. (Read 27792 times)

If you noticed in chipmixer, they modified the logo for a hand that cleaning the logo like saying this service was mixing the dirty stuff, so it looks like they have a designer trying to add such details.

I do not think so. In the report about chipmixer, they mentioned detailed information about the service and mentioned the forum, but the information that the forum cooperated with them was not mentioned, and since they had reached out to the person who runs the site, they did not care about who was promoting the service.

In the case of Sinbad, it appears that the entity is a group of hackers funded by a government or organization, so they were not able to do much, especially since the service is a renaming of a previous mixing service that was operating on the forum.

Good decision to start fresh, and best to lock this topic when you make the final transition.
My suggestion is to create new account without any extension, just make eXch or eXch_exchange if any of this user names are available.

PS
Can you tell me more about eXch mobile app?
I saw that it's open source and available on Fdroid, but I am not sue how safe it is, since it's community made project.

I waited a bit before making this reply, as I wanted to see how things develop. And the way they develop is scary. That account seems legit, indeed. It's not only you believing that, nor only me, but many other users, including some high forum officials. It still baffles me why they felt the need to troll Sinbad by creating that design which was similar to the images used by Sinbad in their topics. Did they hire a designer to craft them that image? Lol! It's ridiculous that they also wanted to be funny.

We need to brace ourselves! The government is coming and that old topic of mine, written 4 years ago, shows a reality which surrounds us more and more.

And the recent decision of banning mixers only proves that. We are on a forum which had free speech as its main goal, yet authorities show once again that is they put some pressure things can change for their benefit. I see more and more eXch as a sort of "last man standing" in this continuous struggle of preserving people's privacy. In a way, if I may, continuing Cypherpunks' work.

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This is really good news! I am glad to see you recovered your account!

That's what I am thinking because it was an honest mistake when I did visited their link through the username and saw that porkbun website.

Hopefully, it goes well to you guys because someone just like me might not look at the signature and think that it's the same as the username's to just copy and paste the link but the good side of it is it contains nothing.

It's nice to get that back and can serve as a mirror of your website.

Then there are news like https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/11/30/polygons-secret-deal-sending-draftkings-millions-to-run-failed-validator/ that again make things complicated to be included in eXch, since we can't afford losing money to some scam network and because we are not some reseller of WhiteBit or Binance that wouldn't care which coins to accept by adding just another trading symbol to some API call. Decentralization in these PoS chains is subject to a strict review in our case, since we actually run a node for each network we work with.


The first request we sent to him asking to change our username was ignored.

The second request to unlock an inactive account (eXch) was granted, but it seems to me that it happened only due to icopress's close involvement to this question.


We are planning to start a new topic in the Exchanges section (since we are a cryptocurrency exchange by a definition) by the end of this month using that brand new account.


We don't. We obviously wouldn't let this page you showed in a screenshot to persist there. There are still ongoing attempts to get that domain back though.

eXch.cx is actually the legit name of the service 

eXch.cc leads to this page:


I hope that, as you say, it's OP that owns this domain.

He seems pretty reluctant to grant them that wish. If he wanted, I think he would have done it by now, since OP had a genuine reason for the name change. They even gave them back control of the old account, but it has no activity.

I just hope that someone malicious just doesn't go and register the eXch.cx name and maybe even try to impersonate.

Oh, I didn't know that. I just thought of it when I literally copied and pasted it on my browser through the username.

Yes, there have been users that have successfully changed their names and granted their request. So if it's already requested to theymos, well, it really takes time IIRC because I've read it before that there's no timeframe when it shall be granted. And you know with stuff that with issues these days, it might really take time. Btw, thanks for your response.

The proposal for a change of name has been discussed a long time ago and they have already sent the PM to Theymos, but so far he hasn't obliged. A few member's successfully got their usernames changed recently, but eXch representative here is yet to be successful on that. If they don't mind, i would like to know what Theymos' response to the request was, is it something he considers doing later or was the PM ignored.

I've tried to check eXch since I'm planning to use and exchange there soon. I've copied the name of OP with ".cc" since I thought it's the same as the actual domain which is .cx.
My mistake though since I thought what's in the signature space is the same. Maybe it's possible to request for change name just for that one character 'c' into 'x'. Just a thought though.

It looks like the fees are back to normal but that aside, it's probably best to support Polygon zkEVM rather than the POS chain at this point, this is where all the team's efforts seem to be going to. But I'm not sure if that's something you would want to do (now), since it's not really supported by CEXes right now.

I believe that in regards to the case you are talking about, everything that could've answered was answered already. There is little or no point to start a new round of questions that were answered previously.

The reason why I have mentioned that forum member yesterday's news related to a mixing service listed on this forum.

Also I have my own reasons to believe that account belongs to the actual agency, taking into consideration the same cybercrime investigation team behind that arrest not only works for FIOD, but also Dutch police which is known for communicating with end-users via various community channels, including spinning up dedicated .onion links for their operations. I am aware of every single operation that was performed by these two agencies and how exactly they performed, because all of that was publicly available during the past events and I witnessed everything myself.

For example:



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When the event that this screenshot represents happened, similar accounts were registered across some darknet forums throwing similar messages what FIODNederland left on Bitcointalk yesterday. These agencies are known for their non-standard community communication practices.

There is a live version of that site still: http://tcecdnp2fhyxlcrjoyc2eimdjosr65hweut6y7r2u6b5y75yuvbkvfyd.onion which is an actual site that belongs to Team Cyber Enabled Crime and Dutch National Police with valid PGP signatures.

I also believe that FIOD's department responsible for yesterday's takedown consists of the same members who were/are working for politie.nl back in time, so it's all just different branding from the same entity, because the methodology involved is identical and they already have a circle of famous people working in this field. You can find many of them on Linkedin.

And by the way:


This indicates that they are quite open-minded, therefore it wouldn't surprise me at all if FIODNederland is legit. The only thing that actually disappoints me in that quote is Tor written erroneously. Guys, it's Tor, not TOR, ffs.

Lol!


This is good news, about improving the security layers and reassuring that your operations will continue even in the case of an unfortunate incident of having the clearnet website shut down. However, I highly doubt that FIODNederland (I mean this user of the forum) would ever be able to do that

Joke aside though, is there any particular reason for which you mentioned Dutch Investigation Service for Financial and Tax Crime (FIOD)? Does this agency represent any risk for you or similar companies? I am asking because the subpoena you presented at beginning of the month was issued by the district attorney from New York, while FIOD operates in Netherlands. I mean, besides the joke about that clown named FIODNederland, is there any connection between the authorities from New York and those from Netherlands?

We were planning to, but the recent gas spike events on Polygon (https://nitter.cz/PeckShieldAlert/status/1725437206075216316#m) made us reconsider adding it. What is the point of an Ethereum alternative if it's prone to high gas fees like Ethereum? Adding more Ethereum-alike chains for us add nothing but more risks. However, it's still possible to have it added soon or later.


We are generally skeptical in regards to any Justin Sun's projects, including Tron, but we will probably add USDT, USDC and ETH on Tron just for diversity.


In regards to what happened on that day - I woke up and had some delicious coffee early morning then the rest of that day was great. Besides that I don't remember anything important happening that day.

We weren't contacted by any officials concerning this case at all. We have also added some extra security layers to our backend server's networking topology just in case ([insert "behind seven proxies" meme here]) and also added a failover backend server, since the income we had from fees last month permitted us to expand our infrastructure significantly. Therefore, in any case, if you see our clearnet site suddenly defaced by FIODNederland or some other agency, then I assure that our onion will continue working and we will announce a new domain here the same day.

Hey eXch, given the fact that it is almost end of the month, thus the date of November 16th passed for a while, I was wondering if you have a heads-up about what happened on that day?


Re-reading this made me laugh once again However, did they address this issue? Or everything is still in limbo?

I would rather see TRX and the Tron network in general, USDT (TRC20). It is quite fast and transaction fees are really low, also almost all services use it and have it implemented, I'm of the opinion that it could be useful.

And speaking of new coins/networks, are you thinking of one day adding the Polygon-MATIC network on eXch?
It could be a good addition, especially for USDT and DAI, the fees on ERC20 are just crazy.

Good to know.

Strange how Binance and CZ ''lost'' all that money in very short amount of time, and now he needs to pay additional $4.3 billion after pleading guilty for money laundering.
That is to much coincidence if you ask me, and I don't trust anything he is saying, but it's clear to me that regulators are slowly shutting down all centralized exchanges, so we better get used to it.

Good to see you thinking of adding THORchain

I posted to some of THORchads so maybe you should see some increased volume from people.

https://x.com/sh1lverbox/status/1727443356039651665

Because the Fee of Bitcoin on the main network become high, this is the right time for people to use the Lightning Network for transaction. And, don't worry, on eXch exchange, we can exchange Bitcoin on LN network to another altcoin such as Ethereum, Monero, Dash, Litecoin, Dai, and USDT without exchanging it 1st to Bitcoin main network like ussual. this is one of the advantages eXch with I rarely found it on another exchange.

And, I was just surprised when I looked at the exchange because the Taproot address was already supported.



Good job!