UPDATE: THIS MAY BE PROVEN FALSE.......is the server coming back up?? Maybe I'll be eat the words I typed below. (New Messages finally appeared at the end of the tunnel on Jan8th 7pm....TOO BE CONTINUED.....
Jan 8th 10:30PM
Still nothing but a ghost of the exchange echoing.
Eventually you can refresh login to see balances that seem to be there but withdraw is disabled.
You can view prices from the date of the crash and all coin pages but trade is disabled.
Wallet status was able to run. All wallets came up as mostly enabled but none were online or had any other info.
Eventually you get kicked back out to the snapshot of the page frozen in time that was taken with new years eve message.
Jan 9th Starting to see glimpses of life from the site but still looking somewhat uncertain.
Jan 10th 1am: The message finally changed! "Almost Done! few problems with DB load balancing"....... So is it coming back? Most think yes it's coming back!
Glitchy flickering of the trade history and order books.......I hope that is a good sign that its being worked on.....
To Be Continued.....STARTING TO LOOK GOOD!
Jan 10th 9am SITE IS COMING TO LIFE!! Soon I think it will be up!
Much more stable, starting to live testing happen.
Still no trading or withdraw but balances are steadily showing on the trade pages along with order books.
Will Coinsmarkets come back ready for the new influx of traders?
To be Continued.......
Jan 10th 9pm More good signs! Site is stabilizing. Looks like wallets are coming online and beginning to sync!
WILL COINSMARKETS.COM come back online??? Chances are looking BETTER!
To Be Continued.......)Original Post Jan 8th:
BEWARE: The servers have been down for 7 days. Supposedly for an upgrade. The site was hugely popular at the time it went down. No real word from the site owners about if it will ever be up. People want to be positive about it because their coins cannot be withdrawn and they hope the will get them back. It is looking more and more like that will not happen and the coins are gone.
DO NOT deposit to that site. They may leave deposit enabled but never come back so your coins will be lost. I feel really bad for those who lost money. Please, let it be a lesson. DO NOT trust an exchange.
Honestly, I wonder if most of the coins on coinsmarkets were actually made by coinsmarkets scammer themselves.
MY EXPERIENCE:
So many red flags throughout dealing with these guys. I went there like many to buy a coin nobody else had, ECA Electra(I don't trust these guys either).
1. I deposited
2. I traded and it all seemed good.
3. Even was able to pull real profit of well known and trusted coins, confirmations and all.
4. Jan1st The site started going down. Access was spotty.
5. Jan 3rd All access was cut off.
6. Jan 3rd A new exchange started selling ECA electra, coinhouse.eu (I don't trust this either, though it was officially announced by ElactraProject.org)
7. Jan 3rdish, Another exchange mentioned in what looked like official doc on discord for ECA. (bitafex, likely another fake exchange.)
8. Despite supposed new exchange and still increasing price of ECA, coinmarketcap stopped being updated as coinsmarkets was the only market they had listed for Electra.
6. Chat kept going, with no sign of a real moderator, email for password resets stopped coming.
7. Jan 4thish, email server for
[email protected] stopped accepting emails. Previously the supposed dev was even answering questions. Now, the email server is just gone.
7. Jan 5th -8th Occasionally access seemed to allow login, balances looked good.
8. Jan 2nd - 8th Still no withdrawal, nothing but bots and trolls pretending to be coinsmarkets admin.
RESULTS: It looks like it was a scam.
PLEASE, if you lost money to these guys, use it as a lesson and do not trust until you are certain. I would be wary of most coins and tokens out there at this point becauseI think fraud is rampant.
Do Not Feel too bad, make your life better, love your family and make safer choices in the future. You are more important than coins and money.
I'm considered smart and am technically savvy. But I was tricked, I bought into the hype. Lost some hard earned money.
PLEASE NOTE: I will check occasionally to try and get my money. If anything changes I will update this post to reflect that.
CURRENT STATUS: Coinsmarkets.com is a SCAM site. Coinhouse.eu is likely a SCAM site. Coincontrol is likely a SCAM site. Bitafex is likely a SCAM site. Electra ECA, is likely a SCAM coin. Beware any coin only only listed in one obscure site.