Changenow “scam” or review how ni23457 blackmails the exchange The following article is dedicated to an unprecedented event in the world of cryptocurrency. On the 7th July 2018, user nicknamed ni23457 posted a message on the “Scam Accusations” section of bitcointalk. This message accused ChangeNOW exchange in holding the user’s 100 BCH/11 BTC/ $70 000. User ni23457 is stating that he came to ChangeNOW by mistake, confusing it with Changelly (which is, to be fair, quite hard to do). Further in the message the user is describing that his transaction of 100 BCH was stopped by the exchange’s technical support team. The transaction was thought to be suspicious by the support, so they requested the KYS (passport identification) from the user. This is exactly where the most interesting part of the story starts. ni23457 is stating that he was thrown off by the fact that the employee of the technical support had a Russian name ...