Well everyone wants a safe place where you can trade without fear but that's is the problem of the team if they wanted to be trusted they must give people first a security.
Our little team is comprised of two of us... Xploited and myself. There are a few people who help us that can see deeper into our admin information, but only X and I have access to coins.
You need to trust Xploited if you dink with CLAM because Xploited created CLAM.
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I trust in the guys behind this project, i have dome deposit up to 0.1btc to the exchange platform, i made like 0.08btc profit with it and never had an issue with deposits and withdrawals the was instant.
So, if someone has to be behind the clam market, there are no better options than BayAreaCoins and Xploited. Great guys behind a great project.