"Central exchanges, gotta love em!" (or should we?)
Poloniex, the site which we have known to love and hate. Never a dull moment with a trollbox keeping you awake. Then came the quircks and such. Suddenly I got banned from the trollbox. The ban was permanent.
I asked about disabled coins, coins such as STEEM, "would it not make it so that disabling coins creates trading in a vacuum?"
They said, "no".
Then I said, "but if you are unable to get coins out, how is it then not like trading a vacuum?"
They said, "...."
No message of ban, typing worked but it would not appear, if I typed multiple messages I would get prompted that I have to wait three seconds, typing never appeared in trollbox.
One month later, R.I.P. Trollbox
Permanent bans occured occasionally, only you don't know about them until it happens to you and then you start searching. The site never mentioned the possibility of a permanent ban, yet that possibility existed. Searching on forums showed multiple users experiencing the same thing and when asked on a different account moderaters replied "best not to dig into it". 2 months after my support ticket, weeks after removal of the trollbox, support finally replied: "no use reinstating your trollbox acces, the trollbox has been suspended indefinitely"
Never was there any message about Bitcoin cash, what they intended to do with it.
Keep your eyes peeled was basically their message.
Oh, and this one in their new user agreement:
Now eyes are peeled.
I am happy that I removed "most" of my assets from poloniex to kraken in order to get Bitcoin Cash and buy back altcoins later. But oh poor souls that didn't and poor altcoins, many of which rely heavily on poloniex. I lost some of mine along the way. I have come to peace with it now... but maybe that's temporary. Maybe this whole ghosting thing is temporary also...,
one can only hope.
What will happen in cryptospace for altcoins in the near future can only be speculated about. Maybe this will be a prime time for Waves or Lykke, who knows, only time can tell.
Let's just hope that this is all a temporary hiccup shall we?
Our hopes have become reality :) Or have they?
Logging in shows the same error page as before. Time is ticking, trust is fa... .
1:33 Amsterdam time:
And they're back with login capabilities! Sure am happy to be able to end on this note: "it was just a power outage".
