Quote from: catoshi on March 17, 2017, 12:36:12 PM

Beware of Poloniex,

They use bots to pump and dump coins and ponzi schemes, at the moment the exchange is pumping DASH which is a ponzi scheme, they create these big pumps, attract investors who short them, them keep them stuck for weeks. If you dont know Poloniex is designed to suck in investors, use bots to create fake volume.

Quote from: eternalgloom on March 17, 2017, 06:49:22 PM

How would you even know for sure that Poloniex itself is using bots to 'pump and dump' coins?
Couldn't anyone use a bot to do this? It doesn't have to be Poloniex itself, right?

Just reads like FUD to me.

Yes, exactly. This thread is just speculation. Poloniex is based in the U.S. and needs to pay the IRS taxes. The money that they owe from their .25% trading fee would make creating "fake volume" very costly for them, so really the entire notion doesn't make sense. They could be actively trading I guess, but that is a different thing.

Source: http://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

Nearly 300 million in daily trade volume, their high rollers pay less in fees but Bots are market takers so a conservative estimate would be them getting .14% average of fees. That would be $420,000 a day in earnings. Now if most of that was "fake," they would be on the hook for a shit ton of tax dollars at the end of the year. A tax bill on earnings of 154 million dollars, no matter how many right offs, would be prohibitive if they were not actually earning that money.