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The Monero community has from time to time reported problems with certain web sites. We encourage you to do your own research before using the sites listed below. The opinions listed below are solely the opinions of their respective authors.

Monero.org is not the official Monero web site. Always use the official site getmonero.org
Changelly customer service issues
Minergate invalid hash shares penalties
Entities related to Minergate
HitBTC reports of withdrawals not working
Cointelegraph
Freewallet

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