I am trying to withdraw a small amount of XRP from HitBTC, and this withdrawal was refused (my own XRP refused to me); I suspect it is due to the fact that I have not filled out the lenghty KYC form they ask of me.

I will never anymore fill out these long KYC forms. It takes like 1-2 hours,  and then the exchange gets hacked or closes down and I end up having done this for nothing. Also, I do not trust HitBTC with my personal info.

I will keep you posted about this problem; if I dont get my money I plan on spending the 2 hours it would take me to fill out the KYC to instead run a negative campaign about them across all crypto forums.

This also brings back the old truth: Never trust exchanges, don't leave coin there: one way or another you will lose it.