The plaintiffs behind a class-action alleging that Bittrex and Tether drove the 2017 bull run through market manipulation have requested the issuance of summons to exchanges Bittrex and Poloniex. The lawsuit, first filed in October 2019, alleges that veteran cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether inflated the supply of Tether’s USDT stablecoin without proper US dollar backing to drive up crypto prices during 2017’s all-time high. The suit is on behalf of investors who purchased crypto assets at what they believe are artificially inflated prices. The Plaintiffs have requested that the Court award reasonable costs of suit, pre- …

Steem has executed a soft fork to restrict the rogue “community321” account from making transfers after the account sent nearly 24 million STEEM to Bittrex in protest of a hard fork that sought to freeze the funds. While Steem has claimed that the hard fork was intended to protect the Steem community against malicious actors, critics claim it was intended to punish supporters of the Hive hard fork by freezing their funds. Steem sanctions community321 An update posted to Steemit on May 22 announced the completion of a soft fork sanctioning community321, stating that “the community no longer has control …

Soon after an unknown entity “rescued” $5.7 million worth of STEEM tokens from a “New Steem” hard fork seizure, Bittrex confirmed that the funds reached their account. The crypto exchange now faces a difficult decision of what to do with the 23.6 million STEEM tokens allegedly stolen from Steem witnesses. In a May 21 statement, Bittrex co-founder Richie Lai confirmed that the entity of the transaction initiator, the account named “community321,” remains unknown so far. Lai pointed out that there is an allegation that the account could be hacked outside of Bittrex. The statement reads: “This morning, someone deposited 23,627,501 …

As part of the long-running Steem drama, the Steem (STEEM) network experienced another fork today. Particularly designed to tackle “constant attack from malicious accounts,” the new hard fork doesn’t appear to have been entirely successful. Code named “New Steem” the hard fork 0.23 had two primary aims. The first was to reduce the power down period from 13 weeks to four weeks. The second was to seize 23.6 million in STEEM tokens from Steem accounts and stakeholders associated with the Steem blockchain’s rebel and fork, the Hive blockchain. The latter goal has apparently failed as the seized funds were ‘rescued’ …

After successfully forking from the Steem blockchain, Hive (HIVE) secured a listing on Bittrex — where it is trading for a 20% premium over Steem (STEEM). In a blow to Justin Sun, the cryptocurrency market appears to have chosen which chain it believes to be more valuable after Hive forked off from Steem on March 20. HIVE trades for 20% premium over Steem On Bittrex, HIVE is currently trading for $0.193, while STEEM is changing hands for roughly $0.154 on the same platform. HIVE’s 24-volume on Bittrex of $28,500 equates to 60% of Steem’s $49,500. In just a few days, …

Bittrex Global has listed two stablecoins and a utility token issued by ‘The Universal Protocol Alliance’ (UPA) after joining the UPA. The new listings comprise stablecoins Universal Dollar (UPUSD) and Universal Euro (UPEUR), in addition to the Universal Protocol Token (UPT). UPT rallies on Bittrex listing The announcement appears to have comprised a boon for UPT — with the token gaining nearly 170% in 24 hours. Despite the strong price performance, the move was driven by less than $3,000 in volume, with trades taking place on a single exchange. UPT is described as a “utility token that will offer holders …

Bittrex global has announced the introduction of new features on its platform, including credit card support, a referral program, and upgrades to its mobile app. Credit card support will see an initial roll-out to Bittrex Global users in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The exchange intends to launch credit card support for all international users in the future. Bittrex Global to support conditional orders on mobile app Users of Bittrex Global’s mobile app will soon be able to place conditional trade orders, such as stop-limit orders for risk management. Despite revealing a forthcoming referral program that will …

Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex obtained $300 million in digital asset insurance against theft or collusion for the cryptocurrency it holds in cold storage. Bittrex announced in a blog post on Jan. 29 that the exchange obtained specialty insurance for corporations by insurance firm Lloyd’s of London after working with major insurance broker and adviser Marsh. The co-leader of Marsh’s digital asset risk transfer team, Sarah Downey, said, “We worked closely with Bittrex to create a tailored insurance solution to fit their specific cryptocurrency needs.” This is not the first crypto deal for Lloyd’s, as in late August 2018 the firm started …

On Dec. 4, $8.9 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) were moved on the blockchain in a single hour, excluding change volume, which is Bitcoin that returns to the sender. Bitcoin’s high transaction volume was pointed out by Rafael Schultze-Kraft, the co-founder of on-chain market intelligence firm Glassnode. In a tweet on Dec. 4, he claimed that such a high hourly transaction value was a first for the network: “It's the highest hourly USD transaction volume in Bitcoin's history.” Bitcoin hourly on-chain transaction volume in U.S. dollars. Source: tweet Bittrex is responsible for the spike Schultze-Kraft’s company apparently soon started work to …

Unknown hackers have attempted to launch a second 51% attack on Vertcoin (VTC) but ended up paying for the privilege out of their own pockets. As Vertcoin’s lead maintainer James Lovejoy revealed in a report on the attack on Dec. 2, a malicious entity targeted cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex in order to manipulate the Vertcoin blockchain. Hackers paid at least $440 to attack VTC Vertcoin forked off from Bitcoin (BTC) in 2014 and experienced a major attack in December last year, during which hackers stole funds worth $100,000. This time, however, it appears the exploit was much less successful. “Based on …

A Ukrainian government official said that United States cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex sought to collaborate with the Ukrainian government on developing the country’s cryptocurrency industry. In a Nov. 20 interview with domestic blockchain media outlet ForkLog,. Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alexander Bornyakov claimed that Bittrex contacted the Ukrainian government to this end. Referring to Ukraine’s recent memorandum of understanding with Binance to collaborate on creating crypto legislation in the country, Bornyakov said, “After we announced it, we began receiving requests from Bittrex, from Coinbase." Bittrex did not contact the Ukrainian government Bornyakov’s statement was soon reported by local publications, interpreting …

Crypto exchange Bittrex will give frozen holdings back to its Iranian users, which the exchange suspended two years ago due to the requirements of United States’ regulators. Bittrex’s Iran-based users began receiving letters from the exchange that promise to return them the funds frozen back in 2017, according to a Nov. 8 tweet published by Bittrex user Ziya Sadr. At the time, the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Control (OFAC) required that Bittrex disable Iranian users’ accounts as it was not permitted to operate in countries sanctioned by the U.S. Under special conditions In the letter, Bittrex revealed that it …