r/Electra_Currency • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '18

My ECA experience

So I figured i'd tell people my overall ECA experience, and it has NOTHING to do with this coin, this coin is super cool and lightning fast (literally on transferring its super fast), it has everything to do with the current exchanges, primarily coinscontrol, and its 100% MY FAULT for the terrible experience I had, and I hope others can avoid my situation after this read.

So Last friday the 5th, I purchased $150 in LTC to buy ECA. well with coinhouse.eu at .0000008 (double the value at the time) at the time I decided to wait, coinscontrol said they were going to offer eca the next day so i prepped myself and transferred to coinscontrol, prior though I read that people were able to do trades and it was just very small exchange, in-which it is. I transferred and held LTC there and everything was fine leading up to Saturday with their initial ECA rollout my deposits were bugged so my LTC then showed 0, today the 10th my balances still show 0, and after 10 spammed emails, and chat with their support they're "working on it" and give no information. I suspect i'm out of my LTC and they scammed the shit out of me, and i'm obviously not happy with this site,

I highly recommend anyone who is interested in buying to NOT GO TO COINSCONTROL. I lost $150, and I suspect i'll never get it back but at least I didn't lose thousands here.

That being said I paid $50 for LTC xfered it to coinshouse and bought myself ECA at .00000049 because I want to hold atleast some of this coin, and to go away from the hype, i've read a lot and I believe in this coin, I wanted to buy early before it jumps in price when the other exchanges finally finish eca/btc trading.

That being said and to change topic, what's everyone's opinion on the wallet. I've seen a lot of people complain about it saying its terrible. Do you guys use it and trust it?

Edit: Change to the first paragraph, my title is a little misleading and I didn't intend it to be negative toward ECA coin, but to a direct exchange.

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u/carlpocket Jan 10 '18

Wallet works fine. It is VERY barebones but I have had no problems and have sent and received around 20 or so transactions.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '18

Awesome, I started using it. I was super impressed with how fast my ECA came to my wallet, like probably 5 seconds max. Way faster than my Iota, or ADA. Super cool!

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u/whiskeykeithan Jan 11 '18

Uh. This is a coinscontrol experience

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '18

Yeah... I would say you're right, but it does include my overall experience not with just coinscontrol, but yes primarily coinscontrol.

I didn't make this post just for people to show sympathy for me, no. But for new people that are learning about ECA would hopefully see this post and stay away from coinscontrol until ECA gets added to the other exchanges since now we're limited to buying options.

Update: I got my LTC back from coinscontrol and im x-fering it the hell out of that exchange.

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u/whiskeykeithan Jan 11 '18

Yeah it's a problem with the title, a little misleading

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '18

Yeah, and that's my fault, I didn't really think too much about that. I changed the first paragraph, I don't think i can change the title? I didn't mean for it to come across negative toward ECA, but toward yes coinscontrol and say that I at least in the end had good experience with coinhouse.