So I made a good move a week ago and sold 20 LTC and bought 4000 XRP for and equivalent of $1.20 each. Great trebled my money. But ever since 29/12/17 if have being trying to withdraw my XRP to my Ledger Nano S wallet and every time I try, 4-5 times a day, I hit the withdraw button on the "Account" (not trading acc, holding acc) and get this same message "Please note that XRP withdrawals are temporarily unavailable due to technical maintenance. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience".
I'm getting worried now even though HitBTC is a top 10 exchange, that they might go "poof". Now Hit BTC has only 3 direct trading pairs for XRP , BTC, ETH and USDT.
It seems from their Forums they are having issues moving BTC, ETH, XRP and many other coins. I checked the withdraw buttons of BTC, ETH they too post up "issue messages". The only trading pair with no withdrawal issues is Tether (USDT). I don't want to sell XRP I want to hold this 4000 in my Digital Assets portfolio. So what to do?
1) Sit and wait for the HitBTC Technical issue with XRP to be resolved? (I am guessing this might be manually activated by HitBTC on my account as I have 4000 XRP they don't want to leave the exchange for liquidity reasons, but they will allow me to transfer it to my trading account (funny that!)
2) Sell XRP for BTC , the Sell BTC for LTC, then move LTC off the exchange and Buy XRP elsewhere?
3) Sell XRP for Tether and move Tether off the exchange, send the Tether to another working XRP/USDT exchange and buy back my XRP and then withdraw off that wallet?
Am I being over panicky struggling to withdraw $10-$11k of XRP of HitBTC ? Anyone else with this experience of XRP issues on HitBTC and how long it takes to sort?
Also if I do sell XRP and withdraw (USDT or LTC) and good reccomendations of exchanges with low fees, tight spreads for USDT/XRP (ideally) or BTC/XRP (via LTC/BTC)
Cheers
BTW, paper gainz of Crypto HODL since 2014 made $100k increase in 2017!! Nice.
Only one thing solution into my mind which just wait for the Issue to be resolved because you cant do options 2 and 3 since coins are still on hold which means you would really still need up to wait for them to fix and i would advise you regarding on this that once you have access to your coins then withdraw it immediately. Im a previous user of hit but now they do suffer much issues this is why i dont lean back on using them again. Once you pull out those XRP then its up to you on what you would buy.