I think that Bittrex will change the name soon, only reason for not delisting the coin.
Hopefully we will get an update from Zeded soon.
I wouldn't get your hopes up about that, I spoke with Richie from Bittrex a couple of weeks ago about it and he was quite adamant that changing the name wasn't something they were likely to do because it'd open the doors for other coins to get "on the exchange without the normal avenue that all coins go through". Obviously "WSTL" is already on the exchange, but I suppose the point was that this was due to the work done by the previous developer.
If they're not going to change the name I'd prefer they just de-list it for now and as suggested before start with C-Cex. And like the others I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts on it all and the project's future zeded.
Bittrex changed names of the coins on their exchange in the past. So this is lame excuse from them.
It was expected to be delisted on 9th January, but wasn't.
Something is going on with this coin, some angel keeping coin on bittrex, and don't want the name to be changed. Can we assume somebody is trying to push the price down?
I agree, it's not the strongest argument for not doing it given there's precedent (FlexibleCoin [FLEX] -> Cinder [CIN]). He did say they pushed back hard against the change at the time. Still, it's their exchange so their rules. It is weird they haven't delisted it though. I don't think it has anything to do with trying to push the price down, I can't imagine the price of a coin with an active(-ish
) developer and 18m coins getting much lower. Suppose we could ask them directly like you suggested.
You guys need to stop with your conspiracy theories... they are never correct.
First, we did not rename FLEX->CIN. So not sure what precedent you're referring to. The last rename we performed was BC->BLK and that's because we agreed to the name swap a long time ago.
Secondly, we put a policy in place to NOT do renames of currencies because of the potential of abuse. If you do not understand that potential, find me on IRC and I will explain it, but I wont go into a debate about it here. That said, we are re-evaluating our position based on our current conversation with XWC. Honestly, there needs to be a balance for renaming things because there is a valid justification (in the BLK and XWC cases) , versus someone "taking over" a coin and completely rebranding it (FLEX/WSTL). We are still trying to find that balance.
Lastly, I have saved WSTL for the last 2 weeks because I'm still talking to zeded and deciding what we are going to do. Until we figure it out, I am keeping the market alive. If you'd rather we just kill it, I'm more than happy to, but if BitCredit is to make it here, it will be through a rename route.
thanks,
richie@bittrex
