What's wrong with Bittrex? I want a decentralized exchange desperately

[aliashraf]

This is so frustrating, practically, we are slaves of exchanges. No? check my story with Bittrex below:

Backgroud:
I'm not a trader but you know, one needs an exchange anyway. Months ago I tried signing up on Polonix, the site successfully proceeded and I get in. As an Iranian, I had no intention to trade dirty USD sh*t and no other fiat currencies and due to the nature of cryptos I thought it should be fine and I transferred some coins to my account, I was wrong!
After a while I received an e-mail form Polonix telling me that I'm banned because of my nationality blah, blah ... for a few days my coins where stuck there and after some harsh statements, threatening them to go public and  starting a topic here in bitcointalk they freed my deposit manually (yet a fraction of the coins remained unresolved) ....

Bittrex story:
With that background, I've become more cautious. So, when decided to use Bittrex, I firstly, sent an e-mail and asked them to disclose their policy about Iranian citizens and whether they apply any discrimination against us or not. After a while they answered briefly: Bittrex welcomes everyone and has no restriction or discrimination applicable to Iranians. Good, I signed up and started to trade on Bittrex, so far so good ...

After a while I noticed this shitty exchange, Bittrex, in the most critical periods, sets my wallets(some of them) in the maintenance mode, I objected and they answered denying any bad intentions ....

Now it is happening much more aggressively, again in a critical time: They have set my account to a 'disabled' status and practically blocked my access to my coins! Why? They say it is routine and they need a selfie , blah, blah ...

Believe it? I'm pretty sure they are nothing more than some greedy  thieves... I have already uploaded enough documents and photos and if there was anything wrong or insufficient how is it possible I have passed the 'enhanced account' examinations? and even in that case, they had to contact me politely asking for it, instead of locking me out, sending me stupid, bot-generated meaningless messages!

I have never traded fiat currencies using this shitty exchange , occasionally have traded btc/eth , btc/bch pairs or alike, in very low volumes. So nobody can accuse me as a subject of AML investigations or threatening holly Israel by financing Hezbollah or other stupid political accusations.
I don't run silk road and I hate denying my identity or using fake ones. I'm proud of what and who and from where I am.

I assure you guys, there is absolutely nothing wrong here other than the shitty exchange, Bittrex, That is playing with people deposits to make a fortune for itself.

Bytheway, their support has been practically dead in last few days and just a stupid bot sends me meaningless messages in response to my tickets!

I know, you guys are mostly protected by your fancy passports and strong civil society, unlike me,  but they will come to you as well, I promise, these shitty centralized exchanges are inherently dangerous for the ecosystem, we need a strong peer-to-peer protocol, I strongly believe.

And one more thing: They have blocked my access to my own funds. It is not too much but but enough not to let go or to giveaway to thieves, so guys:
 please post a reply here and show them, being centralized or not,  they are being watched and will be judged

Thank you!

[TheCoinFinder]

Well, i haven't had such an issue with my bittrex account till yet however i am totally agreed with your statement against bittrex.
I assume bittrex is violating their customers but they are not legally bound to course of such action.
We depositors/traders are impelled by our own need, what can we do until their is no complete decentralised exchange with honesty?
For future trades, you can move to localbitcoins.com (a peer-peer exchange)

[aliashraf]

Thanks  for the participation. 

I highly appreciate it. It is very important for me and people like me not being ripped in silence. Bittrex has missed the most important point: it is a decentralized, intellectual based ecosystem. We have to remind them and support each other against them.
LocalBitcoins is not full featured enough for me, you know. I'm not interested in btc/usd trade pair. I have no USD account (actually I obsessively hate this currency).

Thanks for the recommendation though.

[rebel92]

Me too I have a problem with this exchange, I can't withdraw my Coins from my account, because my account is disabled. I have sent 3 times messages to support but nobody is answering me, just electronic mail. I have made enhanced verification with proof and they didn't enable my account. My profile is enhanced account but it is disabled i dont know why. I can't enable it.

[aliashraf]

Me too I have a problem with this exchange, I can't withdraw my Coins from my account, because my account is disabled. I have sent 3 times messages to support but nobody is answering me, just electronic mail. I have made enhanced verification with proof and they didn't enable my account. My profile is enhanced account but it is disabled i dont know why. I can't enable it.

See? I have the same story

Do you have short  access to jurisdiction, being an Iranian for example, like me?

When did it happen? Like me exactly when price surge began?

[aliashraf]

more evidence:

https://www.cryptocompare.com/exchanges/bittrex/ireview/r_11237

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2267728.0

[Shivasenap]

Feeling sorry for how you felt.We have to bring this to the attention of all BCT users so that Bittrex will take down their restrictions.Make this post roar heavily on this forum.

[pitiflin]

Look dude, the thing is people prefer bittrex because it lists more coins and has a 100 btc withdrawal limit and it has Good flow of btc and other coins daily. Since you live in Israel people will judge you, and things can get from bad to worse. Here is in this forum people will only give you suggestions and opinions because it's only a forum where you discuss things. If anything can happen, then it's going to go through only you and sometimes people's support doesn't work your way.

[shursight]

I have been reading a lot of problems regarding to bittrex, but i dont understand why you are still trading in there, actually there are much better options than bittrex, like poloniex or cryptopia. Maybe the second is having some issues atm because they are listing a lot of altcoins.
And poloniex has been the most trusted since a lot of time, i had some issues but all of them were fixed.
I used to trade on bittrex and it was a garbage, i had more than 0.05 in there (it is not much) but it dissapeared from my balance, and there was no withdrawals movements on my profile, nothing, the money just dissapeared.

[aliashraf]

Look dude, the thing is people prefer bittrex because it lists more coins and has a 100 btc withdrawal limit and it has Good flow of btc and other coins daily. Since you live in Israel people will judge you, and things can get from bad to worse. Here is in this forum people will only give you suggestions and opinions because it's only a forum where you discuss things. If anything can happen, then it's going to go through only you and sometimes people's support doesn't work your way.

Well, disappointing 

First of all I don't live in f**ng Israel (Jewish Republic of Nowhere) I live in f**ng Iran (Islamic Republic of Nowhere). Israeli citizens (the white jew ones) are just like you, under a slavery/protection contract with US government but guys like me? No we just live under double pressure from both our own government and yours.

Bitcointalk is not 'just a forum' it is  a refrence public site for cryptocurrency, a leader. I will keep this thread live and will cause enough damage to Bittrex to prevent it from stealing or playing with people's deposits. Don't underestimate us, we have power.

[aliashraf]

UPDATE:

After 72 hours, now Bittrex has submitted me an e-mail: "your account is under review. Be quite!"
My Reply: "Go to the hell you thief! Just release my deposit, I'm done with you"

They are so shameless. 

[tyuner4]

You can try etherdelta for decentralised exchange. Have you tried to contract Bittrex through their reddit page? They are quite responsive there.

[LoyceV]

So, when decided to use Bittrex, I firstly, sent an e-mail and asked them to disclose their policy about Iranian citizens and whether they apply any discrimination against us or not. After a while they answered briefly: Bittrex welcomes everyone and has no restriction or discrimination applicable to Iranians.

I'm not sure what the current state of trade restrictions against Iran is, but if there's still an international embargo, they shouldn't allow trading from Iran.
Bittrex has been restricting accounts for a while now, and their long-term plan is to only have verified accounts. In my opinion exchanges are becoming more mature as crypto grows, no more "wild west", but KYC, AML and fiat trading.

After a while I noticed this shitty exchange, Bittrex, in the most critical periods, sets my wallets(some of them) in the maintenance mode, I objected and they answered denying any bad intentions ....

During wallet maintenance you can still trade. I don't blame them for taking down wallets for maintenance once in a while.

After 72 hours, now Bittrex has submitted me an e-mail: "your account is under review. Be quite!"
My Reply: "Go to the hell you thief! Just release my deposit, I'm done with you"

Being rude doesn't make someone at customer services work faster on your case.


My account is now in the same state as Hatcher describes:

Have users with legacy accounts encountered any withdrawal problems recently? I have a legacy account and it says I can withdraw 1337 BTC a day, and I have withdrawn 10+ BTC on numerous occasions with no problems. But since yesterday when I log in I get automatically redirected over to the Basic Verification page that has a warning on the top saying "Unverified accounts cannot withdraw from Bittrex". Although when I go to my account summary it still says that my limit is 1337 BTC and the account type is still "Legacy". So I'm wondering if anything has changed in the past few days regarding unverified "legacy" accounts.

[gentlemand]

Unfortunately Iranians and arse kissing Western companies like most exchanges will never be able to mix. Unless there was a fool proof way of disguising my location I wouldn't go anywhere near any exchange from Iran.

There's no excuse for them to freeze your coins though. They should release them and end the relationship. My guess is that they're more worried about releasing coins and triggering some future US government response than uniting someone with their own money.

[buwaytress]

Thanks  for the participation. 

I highly appreciate it. It is very important for me and people like me not being ripped in silence. Bittrex has missed the most important point: it is a decentralized, intellectual based ecosystem. We have to remind them and support each other against them.
LocalBitcoins is not full featured enough for me, you know. I'm not interested in btc/usd trade pair. I have no USD account (actually I obsessively hate this currency).

Thanks for the recommendation though.

Bittrex is not decentralized... so it seems you might have missed the point! Try counterparty and/or Waves decentralised exchanges (DEXs) and experience the trustless trading you're talking about. Only issue is low volume, low userbase, but if you can get yourself and your countrymen onboard, growth will be a matter of time.

Also, you can sell and buy on localbitcoins with IRR, even online bank transfer with escrow. That's kinda the whole point of localbitcoins...Am on it right now and can see dozens of traders doing that.

[pitiflin]

Look dude, the thing is people prefer bittrex because it lists more coins and has a 100 btc withdrawal limit and it has Good flow of btc and other coins daily. Since you live in Israel people will judge you, and things can get from bad to worse. Here is in this forum people will only give you suggestions and opinions because it's only a forum where you discuss things. If anything can happen, then it's going to go through only you and sometimes people's support doesn't work your way.

Well, disappointing 

First of all I don't live in f**ng Israel (Jewish Republic of Nowhere) I live in f**ng Iran (Islamic Republic of Nowhere). Israeli citizens (the white jew ones) are just like you, under a slavery/protection contract with US government but guys like me? No we just live under double pressure from both our own government and yours.

Bitcointalk is not 'just a forum' it is  a refrence public site for cryptocurrency, a leader. I will keep this thread live and will cause enough damage to Bittrex to prevent it from stealing or playing with people's deposits. Don't underestimate us, we have power.

Alright IRAN**.
I apologize for that, but we who you call Jews don't have an option ,it's the government that decides to suck USA's d*ck(no offense people), me or some rando don't have the power to go against it. I don't problem with you or any "Islamic people" or in fact anyone in terms with religion, caste, creed, sex,  whether if they are gay or straight I don't care and I seriously don't give a fuck about it.
Second I do know that bitcointalk is way more than a forum, what I meant is no one can do your own work for you, they can help you with suggestions or writing support tickets to bittrex and maybe a little more. But tbh no one cares or give a shit about you because no one gets benefited from it . Bittrex will take a lot of time to answer your requests and next time better have a back up plan. I say you go fully aggressive mode against them, there are more chances for you to get your money, by aggressive I mean, send them requests every hour, stalk them in every social media and ask them about your money, but ask in a polite manner which will increase the possibility of getting your money more faster.

[mamesso]

Look dude, the thing is people prefer bittrex because it lists more coins and has a 100 btc withdrawal limit and it has Good flow of btc and other coins daily. Since you live in Israel people will judge you, and things can get from bad to worse. Here is in this forum people will only give you suggestions and opinions because it's only a forum where you discuss things. If anything can happen, then it's going to go through only you and sometimes people's support doesn't work your way.

Well, disappointing  

First of all I don't live in f**ng Israel (Jewish Republic of Nowhere) I live in f**ng Iran (Islamic Republic of Nowhere). Israeli citizens (the white jew ones) are just like you, under a slavery/protection contract with US government but guys like me? No we just live under double pressure from both our own government and yours.

Bitcointalk is not 'just a forum' it is  a refrence public site for cryptocurrency, a leader. I will keep this thread live and will cause enough damage to Bittrex to prevent it from stealing or playing with people's deposits. Don't underestimate us, we have power.

Alright IRAN**.
I apologize for that, but we who you call Jews don't have an option ,it's the government that decides to suck USA's d*ck(no offense people), me or some rando don't have the power to go against it. I don't problem with you or any "Islamic people" or in fact anyone in terms with religion, caste, creed, sex,  whether if they are gay or straight I don't care and I seriously don't give a fuck about it.
Second I do know that bitcointalk is way more than a forum, what I meant is no one can do your own work for you, they can help you with suggestions or writing support tickets to bittrex and maybe a little more. But tbh no one cares or give a shit about you because no one gets benefited from it . Bittrex will take a lot of time to answer your requests and next time better have a back up plan. I say you go fully aggressive mode against them, there are more chances for you to get your money, by aggressive I mean, send them requests every hour, stalk them in every social media and ask them about your money, but ask in a polite manner which will increase the possibility of getting your money more faster.

should bittrex soon solve this problem.
there are some Americans disappointed with Bttrex's decision.
even they threatened to close their accounts.
they are embarrassed because crypto is a symbol of freedom.

[snakey]

I apologize for that, but we who you call Jews don't have an option ,it's the government that decides to suck USA's d*ck(no offense people), me or some rando don't have the power to go against it. I don't problem with you or any "Islamic people" or in fact anyone in terms with religion, caste, creed, sex,  whether if they are gay or straight I don't care and I seriously don't give a fuck about it.
Second I do know that bitcointalk is way more than a forum, what I meant is no one can do your own work for you, they can help you with suggestions or writing support tickets to bittrex and maybe a little more. But tbh no one cares or give a shit about you because no one gets benefited from it . Bittrex will take a lot of time to answer your requests and next time better have a back up plan. I say you go fully aggressive mode against them, there are more chances for you to get your money, by aggressive I mean, send them requests every hour, stalk them in every social media and ask them about your money, but ask in a polite manner which will increase the possibility of getting your money more faster.

Should America be ashamed, as a democracy of freedom of speech is highly protected. should bittrex soon solve this problem.
there are some Americans disappointed with Bttrex's decision.
even they threatened to close their accounts.
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I have been using bittrex since last 1 years , though i don't have a verified account there but i use 3 accounts to trade each with max limit and i never had any problem. Sometime bittrex has wallet issues but they gets sorted after maintenance.

[Cactushrt]

I have been reading a lot of problems regarding to bittrex, but i dont understand why you are still trading in there, actually there are much better options than bittrex, like poloniex or cryptopia. Maybe the second is having some issues atm because they are listing a lot of altcoins.
And poloniex has been the most trusted since a lot of time, i had some issues but all of them were fixed.
I used to trade on bittrex and it was a garbage, i had more than 0.05 in there (it is not much) but it dissapeared from my balance, and there was no withdrawals movements on my profile, nothing, the money just dissapeared.

Bittrex is also trusted exchange and high volume why traders still choose to trade on bittrex even poloniex users experienced problems but they are still trading there because of high volumes.