I am programmer for last 35 years. Have been trading on CM since end of November last year. Deposited about 0.08 BTC. Site was a bit slow generally. The tick time for buy/sell updates was happening about every 4.5 seconds. Pretty soon I started seeing message that withdrawals might take a while due to queue. Did wonder at that because it's all electronic and should happen within minutes to a few hours right. Did some trading. Lost £500 in MUT coins when it's Dev ran off with everyone's money! Continued trading with my now reduced 0.03 BTC and managed over the Christmas period to get up to about 0.15 BTC which was pretty good even though i say so myself heh.. Anyway then as new year arrived the site had a number of hours where it ground to a halt and the cloudfare pages started showing older surface snapshot versions of the site. Buy / Sell updates changed too to about every 10 seconds. Then they introduced a 5 second DDOS attack page before the site loaded. Hackers eh.. Seems like a plan. Bought a few million coins. Panicked and sold a few million coins. Some stressful and some brilliant times! Made £194 in 20 minutes. Made £28 in 27 seconds. Made 78 pence from £900 transaction in 2 hours. Mega stressful!
Learned a great deal lol. Anyway, January arrived, 'Happy New Year to all our members and investors' message appeared. Then... site went down! Did the hackers causing the DDOS page mod finally get through? Nobody knew. I wasn't worried (had already written the initial 0.08 BTC deposit off as a learning experience.) I also had an innate trust in CM that they were good peeps in my mind and hey they had made enough money off my own trading which I was more than glad for them to have. Then over the coming days a new message banner came saying 'Servers were overloaded and migrating to new ones.' Okay, sounds like a good plan and good for us all after the site downs in past few days. My own experiences building scalable databases and websites told me they would be optimistic to get this running any time soon so I had a break from it all only checking in a few times a day. At one point very soon into it the chattango room was placed as the main page itself. Greay idea I thought to keep the community alive while the upgrades were happening! At one point someone said in the chat that the fees were 0.1% when actually they were 0.25% so I thought I would mention it and typed it in. Suddenly a signin popup appeared asking me to login. So I duly put in my login name and password. 'Bad login info' message appeared. I tried again, and again, and again. Damn I thought! If hackers *had* taken over the site had I just given them my plain password?? Could they now have all they need to access and decrypt my data??? $@!# !!! What a n00b! Totally fell for that!!!! Hope they are for real I thought and that didn't just really happen.. What a perfect way to go rob an exchange eh.. Get peeps plain passwords and decrypt their data and steal all their coins. Premeditated robbery of a very sneaky kind!! Anyway I reasoned that as my balances were still showing I didn't see any solid reason to worry then! For now.. But those balances were jist snapshots though. Hmmm... Anyway the chat tango room only main page disappeared almost as soon as it had come and the site went back to a random selection of the cloudfare upgrading servers message with the occasional Happy New members one too. So what to do? Chat seemed the only place to see what was happening and most peeps seemed calm. As time went by though more and more trolling and negative spam appeared in chat and conversely less and less of the positive members saying 'don't worry' and 'we trust in CM' etc etc etc. Also again a new banner appeared on main page saying 'servers arrived and now being configured.' Great we were getting at least some kind of progress information but why had they not emailed all the members?? Why had site admins not had a presence in the chat room reassuring us all that it was fine and just taking time?? Well from my own experience I knew that trying to say how long nearly any fairly technical task is going to take is like saying 'how long is a piece of string?' And from experience I knew also that plucking any time span out of the air generally ends up with more and more disgruntled users when the time comes and goes and causes no end of stress so hey best thing to do is say nothing and just concenrrate on and get the job done! That's more than enough stress on its own.. So again I waited and then again a new progress banner message on main page! This time saying 'servers being configured nearly finished.' Okay.. But why leave a barely working site up and running? And why not just have a simple static page saying 'we are offline until we fix it' etc? And anyway if hackers *had* taken over the site, admins could at any time have pulled the plug and denied them access! So no hackers phew. Site admins were in control then. Cool! More time waiting.. More trolls in the chat room.. Then.. Another banner message saying 'servers working,just DB load balancing problems now.' Cool! . .. ... And here we are: no more wiser than when site went down 10 odd days ago...
I have only today checked in the block chain explorer using the withdraw hash I managed to screen shot some days ago and it shows that I put in 0.08 BTC and then a few hours later that it was taken out all this on 26th November. Confusing for a crypto currency n00b like me making me think I was robbed over a month ago?!?! Tracking the transaction trail it shows it went to join 28 BTC. Maybe then it went into a bigger wallet then? I don't know. Maybe someone here could shed some light on this?
Wallet: 1AfboKVHd5MWyWApQJWUrC5kqpoc3KDxH8
Transaction:
8c3dbf75420fc5ed9b5a0a282f6ae15b695b34cc22eaac0eefaa85f7040eac72
TO COINS MARKETS SITE ADMINS THEN. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
GIVE US SOME CLEAR INDICATION OF YOUR CURRENT STATUS! IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE IT AND ARE FRETTING, I KNOW A FEW PEOPLE FULLY QUALIFIED TO HELP GET YOU BACK UP AND RUNNING! ONE OF THEM HELPED XYLO MAKE ITS RETURN. LET US HELP YOU! IT MAY TAKE DAYS, WEEKS, HEY EVEN MONTHS AND THEN IT'S BACK TO TRADING AS USUAL AND WE ARE ALL HAPPY!!! THAT'S WHAT WE WANT! JUST SEND US SOME KIND OF *CLEAR* INDICATION THAT YOU ARE ON IT! FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!! Please...