Like most of you, I’m apart of this community and an investor in the project. I noticed a lack of development in the project and decided to take proactive steps to restart it.
I reached out to Bittrex support (
[email protected]) on July 31st to inform them of our intentions to renew the project. I provided a link to the new block explorer that I paid Clintar to make for the community since the others have been offline for a considerable amount of time. Despite the "recommended outreach" listed on their delist guidelines, I didn’t receive any follow-up response from them. Furthermore, I joined their IRC asking for Bittrex staff with no response there either. As far as I can tell they never made any attempts to reach out to this community to voice concerns about issues they were having with the project. If they thought there was a lack of development interest they could of scrolled back a few pages where I announced my intentions and put up a bounty for a new block explorer.
Here is an excerpt from the July 31st e-mail:
I want to inform you that we have a new explorer up for the Boolberry project. The chainradar and miner's gate explorers have been offline and they don't have a support address. If you have any future questions regarding the project please direct them here. We are working hard on a new update and will keep you informed of any developments that would require hardfork.After seeing the delisting notice Tuesday night I joined their Slack channel with the intentions of reaching out to Bittrex-Julian and Bittrex-Bill to see if they would reverse their decision, but they ignored my responses. Instead of responding to me, they created a sock puppet account “zombezi” and posted their delist guidelines on this Bitcointalk thread. I’m not 100% sure it was them but the timing was about 30 minutes after I messaged them. Bittrex-Richie then proceeded to kick me out of the support channel around the same time as the sock puppet posted on this thread. This is how they treat their customers who have been using and promoting their platform for years.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.21121918In the past, other projects like Stealthcoin were given a delisting notice and somehow they were able to get it reversed. Maybe they paid for reversal, maybe they didn’t, we’ll never know.
What I can say is that this was completely unwarranted on their part. There are numerous coins listed on Bittrex with much less active development and some even trading with zero volume; however they are not up for delisting. Moreover, Boolberry was trading at all time high values ($.90) with considerable volume but they still decided to delist it. This is no different than Poloniex delisting Boolberry when it was approaching all time highs in both market cap and volume. There is a disturbing recurring pattern which makes me wonder if there really is some conspiracy at work here to keep Boolberry down. I can't think of any reason why a business would delist a product or service that is making them money since Boolberry has sustained consistent volume.
Based on their response and actions towards my inquiry it looks like their decision is final. We are actively looking towards other pairing options but nothing is concrete. Businesses who treat their customers like trash dont tend to last long. I surely won't be using their platform ever again after being ignored and treated like a beggar in the streets.