TradeOgre (TO) been down for about 24 hours. Showing 522 on CloudFlare. Some concerns regarding allegedly suspicious activities (withdrawals) now being voiced on Twitter/X, which will hopefully prove to be unfounded.
Created this thread to post updates, should any be required. It is unfortunate that TO has become so important to Grin that it’s demise would be a painful blow. This should come as a reminder that this coin needs more places to buy and trade.
Good luck everyone. Hope this resolves and that you don’t hold (too m)any grins on TO.
After all these years, the inevitable has happened. There is not a single functioning exchange left with active withdrawal support for Grin. At this moment, you cannot buy or sell, Grin’s lifeline hangs by the thinnest of threads and it’s about to snap.
To those who neglected the importance of having redundant solutions to the exchange problem… well done.
Ask me and Kaspa commumity about our loss… I have more than 100000 kas locked in tradeogre exchange for more than 1,5 year. No withdraws, no exchange. Now website is down. They have blocked me from x.com and the reason is I asked them how long will I have my coins locked. Check posts in X about them. Be carefull Tradeogre support in X also. They send a phishing website to withdraw your coins, or ask your passphrase, from an app wallet. As a grin miner I still dont use TO exchange and generally I withdraw grin from pools straight to my wallet..
If the authorities shut it down you’d probably know it by now, if it was an exit scam you’d see all the coins moved, if it’s just a 522 error it would probably be fixed by now - out of all the theories I’ve heard so far, this one seems the most plausible:
I suppose they could’ve got busted, hence the lack of communication on socials. However for me, there are signs that lead me more to the exit scam theory.
There’s som3 news about a Qubic 51% attack on monero, could this have something to do with tradeogre? Seems around the same time. Also seems like exodus just recently removed support for XMR…
Before tradeogre went down completely many noticed it was very slow and glitchy when going through the cloudflare so maybe it’s just badly broken by ddos’ers?
According to Grok, earthquake occurred 18 hrs after the last tx associated with the exchange, so that would nix this theory.
I’m leaning towards something bad having happened to the owner/operator. If they were alive and well, they would have communicated something to the outside world by now.
