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I always thought that Refund addresses were used only when exchanging XMR.
You may be right, I was converting from Bitcoin to Litecoin. Even so, this part of the process Bitcoin Refund address is not the most clear to me.
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I always thought that Refund addresses were used only when exchanging XMR.
You may be right, I was converting from Bitcoin to Litecoin. Even so, this part of the process Bitcoin Refund address is not the most clear to me.
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I always thought that Refund addresses were used only when exchanging XMR.
I just made a transaction, I am quite satisfied with the whole process. Maybe I'll write a complete review somewhere.
What confuses me is entering the Refund address, which is not mandatory, but can be added later. However, during the process, I did not have the opportunity to enter it afterwards. Did I overlook it and why is it not mandatory? If a refund of the address was required, would I have to request a refund from support and what does that process look like?
I admit that the explanation on the website is not the most specific.
What confuses me is entering the Refund address, which is not mandatory, but can be added later. However, during the process, I did not have the opportunity to enter it afterwards. Did I overlook it and why is it not mandatory? If a refund of the address was required, would I have to request a refund from support and what does that process look like?
I admit that the explanation on the website is not the most specific.
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Refund address is optional to create an order and can be provided later when needed, however it can't be changed later once provided
Service announcement: eXch Android app is there!
New app looks very good, but I think eXch should also work fine if used with Tor mobile browser.Is there some shortage of xmr at the moment?
Have you confirmed that the fee rate is variable between 0.5% and 1%? There is no fee rate info on the website and I'm trying to collect this data.
From my own testing and usage I can say that Dynamic rate is much better, not only because of percentage, but in cases where transaction fees are higher and exchange happens later than usual. 
Have you confirmed that the fee rate is variable between 0.5% and 1%? There is no fee rate info on the website
Click the Calculate button, you'll see the 1% or 0.5% rates. 
What surprised me, is there is no fixed "fee per transaction". It looks like the 1% or 0.5% fee is really everything, which matters a lot on small transactions. The minimum amount is 0.0001BTC, and much lower in value for altcoins. I haven't tried a large amount, as it was only for testing and I don't really need to exchange coins at the moment.
Have you confirmed that the fee rate is variable between 0.5% and 1%? There is no fee rate info on the website and I'm trying to collect this data.
Service announcement: eXch Android app is there!
We are glad to announce the release of our fully open-source app for Android on the F-Droid main repository.
This is in fact the first app ever included into the F-Droid main repository that permits swapping cryptocurrencies.
Automatic reproducible builds permit making sure the build you run on your phone from F-Droid was compiled from the source code of the current release at Github: https://github.com/pitonite/exch_cx
While we call it a communnity app, this app was developed under official supervision of IT security specialists from eXch to ensure it corresponds to high standards in security.
Main features:
- Switching between our clearnet and Tor domains
- Custom native SOCKS5 proxy support for both clearnet and Tor domains (set to 127.0.0.1:9050 by default which is one provided by the Tor-enabling app called OrBot)
- HTTPS support and TLS fingerprint verification (both SHA256 and SHA1) for our .onion
- Written using the same framework as the official F-Droid app with minimal library dependency chain
- Ability to import orders created externally
- Ability to keep the orders history (including letters of guarantee)
- In-order support chat
- Supports most of the features available via website and API
- Fully open-source
You can support the main dev by donating:
We are glad to announce the release of our fully open-source app for Android on the F-Droid main repository.
This is in fact the first app ever included into the F-Droid main repository that permits swapping cryptocurrencies.
Automatic reproducible builds permit making sure the build you run on your phone from F-Droid was compiled from the source code of the current release at Github: https://github.com/pitonite/exch_cx
While we call it a communnity app, this app was developed under official supervision of IT security specialists from eXch to ensure it corresponds to high standards in security.
Main features:
- Switching between our clearnet and Tor domains
- Custom native SOCKS5 proxy support for both clearnet and Tor domains (set to 127.0.0.1:9050 by default which is one provided by the Tor-enabling app called OrBot)
- HTTPS support and TLS fingerprint verification (both SHA256 and SHA1) for our .onion
- Written using the same framework as the official F-Droid app with minimal library dependency chain
- Ability to import orders created externally
- Ability to keep the orders history (including letters of guarantee)
- In-order support chat
- Supports most of the features available via website and API
- Fully open-source
You can support the main dev by donating:
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ETH: 0x883a0cb1ffc22beec2840ec8650d3d297c05aaa4
XMR: 82r6JAbRCELbv11DBrfC29HsiXHQMe1QEZW3HYzhSTinhpSJTniVxPai2XFHCKfaiCMASm37EJeZq6v vE3U1B72M81Z4AW9
ETH: 0x883a0cb1ffc22beec2840ec8650d3d297c05aaa4
XMR: 82r6JAbRCELbv11DBrfC29HsiXHQMe1QEZW3HYzhSTinhpSJTniVxPai2XFHCKfaiCMASm37EJeZq6v vE3U1B72M81Z4AW9
Its true that they (US + Netherlands) briefly took over Hansa market after AlphaBay was shut down - perhaps the most famous of all bitcoin/darknet "honeypots" - but they only used evidence gathered to prosecute vendors on the market who were already active..
I have seen this happen when it made rounds on the news that an IRS agent had posed a crypto vendor on the Localcryptos marketplace just to collect evidence from some guy they had been tracking down for some time. It was an interesting case. 
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.
Let me see if I understand well what you meant: are you saying that FIODNederland is a group of hackers? Not a user created by Dutch authorities?
I can't be positive its not but I don't think the US government would do that as it would be considered entrapment. Its true that they (US + Netherlands) briefly took over Hansa market after AlphaBay was shut down - perhaps the most famous of all bitcoin/darknet "honeypots" - but they only used evidence gathered to prosecute vendors on the market who were already active.
By setting up a brand new site and enticing users who may not have otherwise wanted to mix their coin, the feds run afoul of entrapment... certain arrests wouldn't hold up in court, and thus it would be a waste of money/resources.
Who knows for sure though, anything's possible, and I'm no legal expert.
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.
Let me see if I understand well what you meant: are you saying that FIODNederland is a group of hackers? Not a user created by Dutch authorities? legendary
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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.
Let me see if I understand well what you meant: are you saying that FIODNederland is a group of hackers? Not a user created by Dutch authorities?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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 [...]
therefore it wouldn't surprise me at all if FIODNederland is legit.
therefore it wouldn't surprise me at all if FIODNederland is legit.
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.
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.
This is really good news! I am glad to see you recovered your account!
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
There are still ongoing attempts to get that domain back though.
It's nice to get that back and can serve as a mirror of your website. 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.
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.
Maybe it's possible to request for change name just for that one character 'c' into 'x'. Just a thought though.
[...] 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.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.
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.
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.
I hope that, as you say, it's OP that owns this domain.
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.
I just hope that someone malicious just doesn't go and register the eXch.cx name and maybe even try to impersonate.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe it's possible to request for change name just for that one character 'c' into 'x'. Just a thought though.
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.
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. 
Maybe it's possible to request for change name just for that one character 'c' into 'x'. Just a thought though.
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. Jump to: