I dumped everything else for profit and I am very pleased. It was quite stressful, but I am glad it is finally over.
That's a nice ending to this story. Well, all's well that ends well. But you have probably learned your lesson. Don't settle with shady exchanges. If you seem to have no other choice as you are chasing shitcoins which is not listed anywhere else, quit it altogether. It's probably not worth it.
This is crazy. How can an exchange exist without anybody knowing where it is? Wouldn't credit card payments or bank transfers create a money trail? Has nobody decided to do detective work to figure this out? I never knew this was possible to create a website and be able to anonymously collect money without a trail. I remember somebody recommending Hitbtc has a secure exchange. I don't remember ever hearing anything bad about it, but now it seems everywhere.
Even Binance is based nowhere and everywhere. So, don't make it as a basis that an exchange should have a main location.
Anyway, it is weird of you having not heard of anything bad about HitBTC. You remembered a recommendation instead. If only you spent time doing a little amount of research, you would have at least a general idea how questionable HitBTC's operation is. But, anyway, this has already been resolved. Time to move on.