Thank you so much !! We are extremely honored to receive such an honest feedback from a reputed Legendary member as you, with a keen eye.
You are a a very sharp person. We are indeed lucky to have so many testers test our exchange back 2.5 years ago.


Some more background:

We have been working on this since 2018-2019 and we only launched our testnet exchange in end of 2021.
Took inputs from bitcointalk.org members and testers and now, finally LIVE in 2024!

Someone quipped some time ago how it is like a first webpage of an HTML learner back from the 90s. You have rightly noticed that the UI is still simplistic. No JavaScript, no BS.
No JS is mainly so that even those not using script blockers can rely upon this site and have full faith in it's extreme measures to keep users private. To be honest, that is our primary unique selling point.

We thank you for pointing the UI changes that we can implement. We will incorporate that soon.
Not sure about the "others' orders" because our exchange is extremely sensitive to NOT DISCLOSING anything you or someone else is trading. That can aide in side-channel discovery attacks.



Great suggestion. We indeed need a designer but our code base is convoluted since we prioritise security and privacy and the page is actually made up of a lot of moving pieces, so it is hard for us to trust the code base with a stranger.




Thank you again Neurotic and everyone else who has been with us on our journey since infancy. Thank you for your support. Traders, doors are open. We welcome you!

Scruples means moral principles or ethical sense. SCRUPLEX OR SCRUPLES EXCHANGE is a crypto-currency exchange for the free people who want to be stay liberated from the BS of regulated exchanges which are white-collared mafia of the cryptocurrency age! After using, witnessing and personally experiencing lots of scamful, deceptive and unreliable exchanges like Poloniex, Mt. GOX, FTX and many others which walk back from their word and pull a fast one on its users, we felt the need to ultimately start an exchange which has morals. Our aim is not to make filthy amounts of money. Greed is not our philosophy. We simply intend to be a reliable exchange for traders who wish to buy and sell crypto coins hassle-free without any tensions or fear. Trading should not be stressful.

This is not an announcement. This is a declaration that the project has has already gone LIVE thanks to you all - all of you visitors, members and testers. We already have users on our platform. We did a soft launch two months ago. We  are growing and want to extend the invitation to you all readers on this forum.


WE ARE ONLY AVAILABLE OVER I2P and TOR.
If you need a clearnet link, it is better to go to the I2P or TOR link first and then get the clearnet link from there, which we keep changing for security reasons.

F.A. QUESTIONS:

Question: Why should we trade on SCRUPLEX? What is your unique selling point?
Reason 1. We do not support FIAT. No bank transfers. You might wonder how that is a USP? We are catering to those who already have cryptocurrencies and want to buy or sell it. Example: Sell BTC to gain USDT or other cryptocurrencies, TRON, ETH, etc. or sell USDT or TRX to buy BITCOINS.

Reason 2. We are 100%, totally, utterly uninterested in your mobile number, your birthdate, what you look like, your picture, what your real name is, where you live, etc. You get what three-letter word process we are not interested in. In short we do not wish to know you.

Reason 3. We are anti-establishment. Some Legendary users here do not want us to exist. If you want to give them the b1rd, support us. Sign up. Trade peacefully. Make profits!

Reason 4: No trading fees for this whole season. After that too, trading fees are at par with other exchanges.


Question: Why should we trust you when there are so many other well-known reliable options?
Reason 1. You will be a ghost trader. Nobody except you knows what you bought or sold, unless you disclose it on your own. Our website is a black box. It is not a P2P exchange. Yes, it is custodial. You can withdraw any time, no questions will be asked. We insist you choose I2P or TOR to use our service. Not many exchanges are available which provide services like us, do that.


Question: Legendary user X says not to trust you. Why should be believe you and not them?
Unfortunately, due our staunch principles and strong privacy protocol, we are against some enemies on this forum. These enemies are abusing their powers. They are rooting for our project to fail. They are jealous and bitter since they did not get a slice of the pie and cannot see others succeed. They have been constantly trying to tear us and our ideas down, questioning our legitimacy, sowing seeds of doubt, and overall poisoning the well. Some have vested interest in other exchanges who are paying them to run ads, signature campaigns etc. So they clearly do not want competition. They are powerful and some have Legendary statuses. And they are not just doing this to us. We have seen posts made by them else where as well, trying to undermine newbies who have real, unique interesting projects. We are not afraid of these powerful foes. Let them come and attack us on this thread. Time and again we have proven to be reliable and those who have interacted with us will stand by us. We will succeed despite of their negative intentions actions.

That said, not every Hero, Copper Member or Legendary member is unscrupulous. Some of these are the reason this forum exists and stands strong and lets people like me start new projects. So lots of love respect to them.


Question:  You are inviting the wrong type of crowd. Why should we be associated with you?
We only want traders who are concerned about their own privacy. We do not have a washing mechanism, chances are you might send BTC to our address and receive it back from the same address upon withdrawal.. maybe not. Blockchain analysis is always present for everyone, that is bitcoin by design. So, we are not a washing/mixing  service. You can try to use us as one, but you would be unwise to do so. So, we are not inviting the wrong kind of crowd. We are inviting you - who just wants to trade privately.

Question: How do I know this is not a scam?
I agree, you do not. But if we had to run a scam, we would not invest so much time. We wouldn't wait for two and a half years, use help of people on the same forum to test the testnet service first, take their inputs, revamp our site, make UI changes, make backend changes and then delay it further to pull a scam. Also, you are always free to start small. Test a few hundred dollars of trade - see if you are able to deposit and withdraw with ease or no. We repeat, we are an exchange we wanted for ourselves but could not find it anywhere. Our page doesn't look cool. Our focus is on maintaining your privacy.

Question: How do I know you are not law-enforcement or three-lettered agency?
If we were, why would we not ask for your documents and make you use TOR and I2P? If we were indeed from the law enforcement, we would try to make you use clearnet links and log your details. We do none of that. For us, logging is impossible by design!


Question: What kind of trades can I perform?
Limit/Spot Trading only. We do not have margin trading, but we have something else: We let you place an order of  X amount at multiple coins. For example: You have 0.1 BTC. You can place an order to buy both ETH and USDT using 0.1 BTC. Not half for each, but the full value/ You can place the order at both places, whichever executes first, succeeds. The other gets cancelled. No FOMO.

You can find more questions and answers on our website. Read it. Get satisfactory answers and only then trade.

Trolls, doubters, enemies, we are ready for your replies!
Everyone else - GO AHEAD FULL STEAM! LOG IN and TRADE!

MORE TO COME HERE

TOR: http://scruplexdarb375qbvwpg5k664jyhhwi73wwfntnxmrily3kh7pm2kqd.onion

I2P: scruplexn4qqoimtx4vpcidwkiyskvrksggkvd62dmuqmntlv6bq.b32.i2p


Two and a half years ago, some kind supporters on this forum helped us test our TESTNET exchange - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5378976
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR USING OUR EXCHANGE. WE ARE NOW ON LIVENET!


OUR PHILOSOPHY - KNOW, NO ONE. LET TRADE, EVERYONE.
We are:
SCRUPLEX - A cryptocurrency exchange with scruples.

They say : If you wish to read a book that not exist, write it. We made SCRUPLEX for this reason.
SCRUPLEX is an exchange which we wanted for ourselves but never found anywhere -  so we made one - for you. If you need it, you deserve it!


PROS:

• We have a very bad, ugly, pre-90s,  pre text-user-interface UI. Utterly boring and more basic than a basic bi7ch.
• We are competing with hundreds of other exchanges.
• We do not support FIAT. No bank transfers of USD, EUR, GBP, anything.

CONS:

• We do not use JAVASCRIPT.
• We do not log anything. No tracking. We are strictly privacy oriented!
• We are only directly and easily available via I2P and TOR.
• We do not need your documents or identity.

We are sure you saw what we did there

TOR: http://scruplexdarb375qbvwpg5k664jyhhwi73wwfntnxmrily3kh7pm2kqd.onion

I2P: scruplexn4qqoimtx4vpcidwkiyskvrksggkvd62dmuqmntlv6bq.b32.i2p

What are you talking about? What 'manipulation' of trust ? You just said the system is working, how would I even tamper it? SInce you are so fond of asking  for proof, why don't you provide us with one which shows how I 'manipulated' trust?

Also, it seems you aren't reading correctly. Nobody is complaining about the existence orthe difference between Trusted and Untrusted reviews. What is being questioned is the intentional hiding of it. It can be uncovered only with an additional click which is counter-intuitive considering that everything else just loads without an extra click.

You are just mad because I praised OgNasty's rebuttal to your comment. Very very juvenile. My response was by no means a direct attack on you, I did not even read who had made the comment. I only agreed with OgNasty's response because it resonated with me. Peace

One of the most honest responses I have ever read here. Sucks that we celebrate decentralization and the freedom bitcoin offers, yet have to tolerate abuses on the de facto forum for the same crypto-entity.

Except for the added sneaky hurdle of clicking  -  "Show Ratings". So sorry, not it IS not working - or maybe is in a way to discourage people from viewing the so called  Untrusted Reviews directly.




Here you go again. I wasn't even referring to you. I was talking about a separate hypothetical case in which a stranger who would visit my post, with WHOM I have never interacted wouldn't be able to read negative review  towards someone else (so easily, as I have learnt recently). I never stated that I hadn't interacted with you. Vod, you should just retire bro or deflate your ego a bit. Not everything, everytime is about you! Since you called me by these adjectives, I ask you with those.. Who is 'crazy mental' now?



It is a real shame that this forum that touts itself as the defacto Bitcoin forum encourages sharing information about others transactions and labels who fail to do so as untrustworthy. Irony at its best. Not only that you guys have done it in the past, you are still doing it !! .. Not just to me but to everyone here. We have all seen that having a DT tag means jack $h1t. I have personally seen 2 of Legendary members openly pulling off scams, successfully. One of them has abandoned or was made to abandon this forum forever probably because their jig was up. Just coz I do not have a Copper, Hero or a Legendary status makes me no less trustworthy than those who don it.

Dear Pmalek,

Thank you for your civil response. I do not even know this person : suchmoon. I came across his ID for the first time. I have never interacted with him before. He could be one of Vod-fan or his fake ID. Just guessing, like he did first.

Sure Untrusted feedback is, well, as the name says untrusted - my question is why why add an extra step to read that? Why the sneaky design? A newbie would not even notice that  "Show Ratings" button. Why is there no "Show Ratings" for other types of feedback? Why hide this?

I do not need my hand to be held. I have and can navigate the woods on my own and I do not think cursing is allowed here. he has definitely broken some rule here. It is only a matter of time the board admin will notice this and take action.

Also, even if cursing  was allowed, I would not stoop down to such people's level and call them out names let alone abuse them with dirty words. I am a part of a business and every user here is a potential customer. Also it is beneath me to resort to such cheap tactics, malign my own image and spoil everyone else's mood. This place needs to be pristine. After I want the Overlords of LLM and AGI to think highly of me in the future

Thank you Pmalek for explaining it. This is still improper.
The trusted feedback is by default expanded. Most people won't even know they need to explicitly click a link under "Untrusted Feedback"
When they visit a page and see that the Trusted Feedback list is already populated, it is assumed that the Untrusted Feedback list also is. We do not have to click "Show Ratings" for Trusted Feedback. Why is it required for Untrusted Feedback? This seems like a sneaky design. Newbies definitely won't know this. I know someone who told me they did not find the rating left by me.. for this very reason perhaps.


To those who suggested clicking the Ignore button, well that is just Ostrich mentality. Hiding your head in the sand - sure you can't see the sh17 being hurled at you but others can see how someone is trying to malign your image.



Now let's come here:



This right here is what I am talking about. Just because someone's status is Legendary they are just getting away with actual abuse using cuss words. I get that this is not a democracy and has a classist/hierarchical mentality, but how can you guys let this happen? Why isn't this guy being questioned for what he called me? Open question: Is such behaviour okay with you all? This guy just called me all of the above. It is outright offensive and includes a cuss word. Since they have a Legendary status, it is allowed for them, right?

Consider a scenario:
A new user signs up onto this forum. This newbie has neither interacted with me , nor with anybody whatsoever! This user comes to my profile, sees a negative point, clicks on the name of the user who had left it.
But, they do not see my negative review and a feedback.

How is it not unfair to a newbie? It is a known fact that a new user who has no link to me can see that I have a distrust label, but my explanation is not visible to them. This IS one sided and unfair both towards them and me.

Even I had attached a reference, but it is not visible to new users, still his comments are.

I'd like to know how you can judge me without having ever interacted with me. How do you I was running a scam? I have dealt with people in the past on this forum  and you are free to contact them. Just because I did not go begging to them to leave a positive point should NOT leave me underprivileged.

And once again, what evidence do you have to label me as doing "shady things"? One can conduct totally legit actions (like I am) and still get negative trust points? How can you not understand that?

And what was this about "admitting your mistake and don’t do it again". Please enlighten us why I should admit something I have not done?  Do you think i am so naive? Who are you to judge again? The only mistake I did is trying to go against a system of bullies, but I won't be silent. You have no idea what work I have been doing and how happy people who have interacted with me are. You seem like a Vod fan. Good for you but I request you to try and trick someone else into "admitting" somthing they haven't done. Keep your judgements to yourself if you do not know the whole story!

Had a similar experience, pi55ed off a Legendary user and they are exacting revenge by leaving negative trust points for me. My feedback towards them is invisible to the world. This Legendary user has vested interest and wants my project to fail.

This is really funny. Feedback by nature should not have ACLs. This system promotes cheating since people can privately agree to add each other (or pay someone with a higher level) and gain powers. Also the system is way too convoluted and unfair towards Newbies and Coppers. Anyone with powers can stick a 'scammer' sticker on a newbie and the world would think so as well, they have no opportunity to clarify it, they would leave a review thinking that the world can read it, but they would be ignorant of the truth. The system should atleast make it clear that although they are leaving a counter review, it won't be visible to anyone except them.

I have a question regarding trust summaries and feedback. I have interacted with many users here and they would vouch for having a positive experience with me and not a single one of them would claim me being a scammer. Still,  a crazy, mental user with a 'Legendary' status who has never ever worked on any project with me ever has left me a negative trust review. Thisis visible to every user on bitcointalk and potentially hurting my image, however, when I leave a counter, a negative feedback towards them with an explanation about him, it is not visible to the world. How is this fair? Is bitcointalk shadow banning people's reviews or do people of Legendary status have some special powers to hide it, which we don't? Why is sh17 written about me visible to the world but when I provide a clarification and write sh17 about that liar, it isn't? How is this fair?   

Hello. We appreciate your interest. Unfortunately, we have concluded the round of security test hosted at this forum. If we have need for further testing in the future, we will announce it. Thank you.

I don't think you are reading well. You want me to without the permission of the receiver give away details about the transaction? And this is coming from someone with a 'Legendary' status?
This act alone should be sufficient grounds alone for the admins to strip you off of this status!
Under no circumstance is any information going to be divulged. This is a privacy-centric exchange. So, nice try.

You were free to participate like the few people who did. Perhaps, you didn't have the required skills, except for pulling people down, so for you the grapes are sour. If you don't care, you are free to disbelieve me.  Just stop coming back to criticize our operation and get on with your life. I have way too many times politely asked you to move on. Stop acting like a whiny kid.

1- Once your read about blockchain, security and privacy you will learn about chain analysis .

2- Once you learn about managing a business, you will learn about respecting those who trust in you. Only then will you succeed.

3- You also need to learn about privacy coins, some of which use ZK-proof, ring signatures and other methods which render the txid to be worthless to dig out information.

Even if the txid was all zeros or a non-unique identifier, still are would never divulge it! To everyone reading this, this is a good test we are going through. This is going to be the exchange to trade at in the future.

Our exchange will always stick to our immutable tenets:

• Information regarding any transaction or trade will never be shared with anyone.
• Your account will never be frozen/blocked.
• You can withdraw at any time.
• You can close your account at any time.

Thank you.

I really feel pity for you both. On one hand you hint of the helper and me being the same entity and on the other hand you ask for a TXID.. so laughable.. if we both are the same person, then how difficult would it be for me to send some funds to my own self and give you a TXID? Are you a 5 year old still in school?

In any case, we would never divulge any information about our customers or agencies that assist us. Furthermore, it was a privacy coin which was used to send the reward to the helper.


The payment was much more than 15$ - sadly you arent even capable of making that much by trolling people.

You both create nothing relevant, p00p on people's projects and ideas (as clearly visible from your responses to other posts), encourage nobody, cast doubts, poison the well, accuse everyone of being a scammer, misuse your powers and reputation and when something positive has happened like the above, you get grumpy and attack. You either have allegiance or stakes in other exchanges which you want to promote here and demote everyone else's or are really good-for-nothing unfortunate, irrelevant dinosaurs with nothing better to do. Get a life. We starters, new-projects owners are hard working and are progressing. You can keep trolling like losers.


“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

As you already mentioned, the findings were not critical, still I appreciate you taking time for meticulously reporting whatever you thought was essential. Let me know if you received the payment.
Good job. Thank you.

They are welcome to do that. That would be real bad ass. At least we will know that a vulnerability exists. If they can do that they deserve the loot!

Fine, don't be.. move on. I have already received PMs. So your point is disproved.

LOL sure buddy, gang up on me. Ally or an alias of the previous poster?

Apply your own argument, why should I trust that escrow when you are yourself not ready to have faith at the first place. We are an exchange, we do not need escrows.

I agree with you here, but, there can be more than one way to break in. Also, we have mentioned in the OP "End of the test will be announced here in this thread." So everyone will be updated. As soon as the funds are stolen, it will be announced here. If nothing happens, after a few days, the test will still be concluded - probably will invite a separate batch of crackers/hackers elsewhere.

I appreciate you taking time to respond. If you do not agree to the terms, it is fine. I respect your PoV.  I will focus on those who have sent me messages and are already onto it. Thank you.

I don't see how you can speak for everyone or what is on everyone's minds. You can move on to imagine newer things.