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What better way to start the day than telling you guys about how I’ve been scammed…

Right from the beginning, I want to make this perfectly clear: if you were thinking about doing business with the Coinsquare.com bitcoin/cryptocurrency exchange, don’t. Just don’t. To explain how I’ve been scammed by Coinsquare and why Coinsquare should be avoided, I’ll simply present facts in a chronological manner:

1. In 2017, during the huge bull market, I’ve signed up for a Coinsquare account (wish I knew back then that Coinsquare are scammers!) due to the fact that in Canada (they’re a Canadian exchange btw), there was a bitcoin price premium… in other words, you could sell bitcoin for more than the market price, just like in South Korea and Japan. Therefore, this premium represented a trading opportunity
2. I’ve submitted all of the necessary documents in 2017 and they replied, telling me that due to Canadian laws, they cannot verify my account but that I am welcome to deposit, withdraw and trade cryptocurrencies. In other words, they told me I could withdraw, deposit and trade crypto but not fiat (so for example, I wasn’t allowed to fund my account through a wire transfer)… fair enough, so I deposited some bitcoin and traded a bit
3. Fast forward to Monday, I get an email which states that everyone needs to get verified and that until I’m verified, my bitcoin cannot be withdrawn
4. I once again submit all of the necessary documents and they reply telling me that nope, they can’t verify me
5. I said ok, I’ll just withdraw my bitcoin but, guess what, it says “Action restricted” whenever I try to do it

Essentially, Coinsquare scammed me by stealing my bitcoin.

They explicitly said I could deposit/withdraw/trade cryptocurrencies in 2017 but as of Monday, they were like “Yeah… we’re not going to allow this anymore and you can’t withdraw your bitcoin either. Ha!”… ladies and gentlemen, this is how Coinsquare scams you.

Let’s say Coinsquare scams 10,000 people out of a total of 5,000 bitcoins this way. They most likely assume most people won’t sue them and bam, they’ve just gotten away with stealing a fortune.

We can’t have that!

Believe me, Coinsquare will be exposed for the scam it is and there will be consequences. Waaaaaay too many people think you can just get away with anything in the frequently shady world of crypto but I promise that as of this point, I will make it one of my top goals to expose Coinsquare for the scammers they are.

This post will end up ranking on Google most likely and therefore, I hope I can help people stay away from Coinsquare.

If you’ve landed here by searching for keywords such as “coinsquare”, “coinsquare exchange” or something along those lines, please listen to this warning. Understand that Coinsquare are scammers and stay far, far away from them. There are plenty of legitimate exchanges to choose from, so just say no to Coinsquare. You’re welcome!

Contact me at andrei@oneminuteeconomics.com if you’ve been scammed by Coinsquare as well and have information to share. Your anonymity will be respected and I’ll do my best to use the information you’ll be providing to make sure the Coinsquare scam exchange doesn’t get away with whatever it is they’ve done to you unpunished!

Today: TheLocal.fi Sold for $21,995 / Looking for Brandable domain Names / Buying Word + “Labs” .com – MachineLabs.com – DegreeLabs / And more!

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Being a rare beast that of a domainer and also a business owner using domains, I wanted to do a series on how to leverage a killer domain in the real world. Some may remember I paid 700,000USD for Furniture.co.uk and I am working to build a valuable business on that domain and sell out for £10s of millions.

There are many different aspects I am working on and in time will record it all here to show how I achieved it by using a killer domain.  Here I talk about branding, really important to get across what you are about, why buy from you, what’s your story.

Branding

Its a double edge sword using a category domain such as furniture.co.uk. The upside you don’t have to explain what you do, the downside it has no character.

We are selling online only and we wanted the logo to show that but we had to get our personality/story into the brand furniture.co.uk. The way we have achieved this is by putting furniture.co.uk in a search box in a very simple text but the background we express our creativity and craftsmanship by using bold, often colourful imagery like the examples shown below.

These images are used primarily for high-level brand campaigns with the logo only.

• The logo stands out well and we can create the brand image around the background imagery about creativity or inspiration. It is less about specific aspects of furniture and more about the company.
• To express our craftsmanship we use detailed shots of the furniture – this will tell a story about the process and the care we put into everything we do.

We now can achieve our branding goal of being creative, contemporary and with craftsmanship but also we now have the benefit of saying we are a leader in this field and we sell online just by using the domain Furniture.co.uk. The imagery and logo speak for itself, it’s self-explanatory. I don’t even need a strapline.

I can now also show how that will work in a magazine Ad. Its very striking imagery that I don’t have to explain anything, the brand/logo of furniture.co.uk and imagery does it all

On our trucks, I can use mood type boards similar to what an interior designer would use. Everything says we are number 1 and creative and that’s what you can do with a category killer name

Finally, animation of the logo we would use at the end of youtube videos, it looks as if it’s a search box, no explanation needed, we sell furniture online, click below to play

Furniture Logo White

Next, we are building the website and I will do a post once we have completed.

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