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Re: [ANN][EXCHANGE] Poloniex - Crypto Exchange with BTC/NXT
by
andyatcrux
on 02/05/2014, 23:21:41 UTC

Please stop sending BTC to your old BTC deposit addresses. The funds will not be lost, but all new addresses must be generated, as I must assume the old wallet is compromised. It is very unlikely that it was, but "unlikely" is not good enough.


Does this accident affect other, not-BTC deposit addresses? My rigs send regulary small amounts of coins directly to my poloniex deposits, do I need to stop sending now?
I guess that depends on how safe you feel with unlikely. Going by what he said, you should be good but it's best play it safe and stop using all old poloniex coin address as I would assume the wallets were all on the same wallet server (could be wrong).

Yes you should absolutely stop sending small deposits from mining. If every one of those deposits needs to be manually recovered for you then you will only be wasting time. I can't recall if Poloniex specifically has a statement listed in the balance page, but many exchanges have something along the lines of "Please don't send small auto-payouts from mining." So basically you should never be doing it to begin with.