Quote from: smooth on May 19, 2015, 06:45:05 PM

My take on this is that I have zero interest in giving my identity documents to any of the current crypto exchanges or other crypto businesses, and I have never done so, nor do I plan to. Not because I have anything to hide (all of my activities are entirely legal, and my identity isn't even that secret anyway), but because I simply don't trust them to safeguard it. Look at how many have been hacked, have had data breaches, rogue employees, etc. If I put coins there I'm aware I may have to forfeit them, so I act accordingly, mostly by exposure limits. Which is needed anyway given the risk of being hacked or "hacked".

I trimmed the rest but that piece I kept sums up my feelings almost perfectly. After I dealt with the anger phase, I was able to exit mostly intact (took a bath on some speculative coins I'd rather have held, but they got liquidated > bitcoin > Monero, so I don't mind so much. Was maybe a good thing to consolidate?)

Quote from: smooth on May 20, 2015, 07:08:38 PM

Fuck you Poloniex. You screwed up here.

I'm not quite at this level of outrage, but I appreciate the sentiment.

I've seen some favorable rates on shape shift from time to time, and I'm strictly a small-timer, so that seems like the way I'll be going from now on.

Maybe after the dust settles someday I'll create a new account with my real name, but for now, my positions are set, and I'm digging in for the long haul.