as i wrote on irc right after the phone call with bittrex was finished,
and after a week or two of a process of passing their legal due-diligence and mutually signing a listing contract afterwards which made me think it's all over,
they told me (a nice girl who didn't seem to know anything about the project) that they don't allow pre-sale tokens, but only tokens that are actually used over the running promised platform. as such they'll happily list us once the tokens are used. they also delist maidsafe at the same opportunity, which is another omni token, and the omni foundation is trying to negotiate with both bittrex and additional exchanges.
that's all today's news, no more, no less.

[this reminded me the old plans of using the tokens over the alpha already (some limited use)]

Lets give Ohad the time and maybe if we are lucky, we get a pre alpha this year. But it's not unlikely that this is still to early. This project is gamechanging so we need a long breath and strong hands.