Bitcoin Exchange Bittrex Says "So Long" to Three Dozen Cryptocurrencies
For those of you who have read George Orwell's "Animal Farm," you probably remember the classic rule revealed at the end of the story... "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Napoleon's classic manipulation of the animal code seems to be making its way into a number of different arenas, one of them being digital currency. Even the world of bitcoin and its altcoin cousins are susceptible to similar twists. Bitcoin exchange Bittrex is removing a staggering 36 different cryptocurrencies from its platform today, Sunday the 15th. I guess some currencies just aren't as....
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Bittrex sent out an announcement to its users that it will be removing three dozen coins from its platform on Sunday the 15th of February. Pointing to the fact that they have "flagged and warned on these wallets for at least 30 days," Bittrex will make no exceptions for funds remaining at time of execution. Infanticide Against Netcoin. While no reasoning is provided, for some of the coins all-out abandonment may be the case, with the "broken blockchains" being cited as a reason refunds will be unavailable anyway you slice it. Fair enough, on those coins. But two of the coins that made it....
Digital currency exchange, Bittrex, has added 12 new coins in the second quarter of 2016, making it the only exchange listing all of the CoinMarketCap top 20 coins. The coins added in order of most recent are: Rise, Waves, DigixDAO, Breakout, Project Decorum, The DAO, Krypton, Lisk, SARCoin, STEEM, Destiny, Memetic. Consistency of new coins. Both Waves, which was added in June, and Lisk, which was added in late May, were listed first on Bittrex and debuted as top-ten coins. They have steadily remained among the top dozen coins since their introduction. More than 95 percent of Steem and....
Bittrex is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to exchange Bitcoin and Litecoin for a wide variety of altcoins. We have received an anonymous tip from a trusted source of a leaked chat conversation allegedly from one of exchange's founding members. Bittrex richie is presumably Richie Lai, who according to Bittrex's website is one of the exchange's founders and works on Amazon's security. Exchanges often control user funds in a giant pot similar to how a bank functions. So the movement of funds in this matter isn't out of the ordinary, but messing up on this scale will leave the....
Holders of Unobtanium (UNO) caught a break when the Bittrex exchange noticed the assets of the largest UNO wallet strangely appeared on Bittrex and impounded it. The wallet had been somehow transferred from Cryptsy, an exchange that has been discontinued and its assets placed under court receivership. A Twitter post shows the UNO assets that appeared on the BIttrex exchange.While Cryptsy’s assets were placed under the control of a court receiver last year, the transfer of 15,000 UNO to Bittrex reveals that someone has access to Cryptsy assets and attempted to cash them. Bittrex....
With the investigation into Cryptsy still underway right now, it seems odd one of the exchange’s altcoin wallet addresses has a declining balance. To be more precise, someone noted how the Cryptsy Unobtanium wallet has been sending funds to Bittrex, where a major dump of the digital currency took place. So far, the Bittrex team remains tightlipped regarding the incident. Cryptsy Funds On The Move. By the look of things, someone has been moving Unobtanium funds from a Cryptsy wallet over to the Bittrex exchange. Based on various Twitter reports – which are always subject to interpretation –....