The correct link is
https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/1031556720311582720I didn't lose anything the moment shittrex lost its mind and changed its TOS but I quickly stopped using the service because I'm not interested in an exchange that changes its mind from day to day and trolling users while replying to support tickets. There are plenty of other websites to use.
I'm Iranian. I have an amazingly stupid story with this scammers:
1- In May 2017, before signing up with them, I primarily sent an e-mail to their support. I disclosed my citizenship status and asked them officially whether I would have any problem if I choose going through their sign-up process or not as I used to become frustrated when US based exchanges apply discriminatory policies against me because of my nationality.
2- Few hours later they responded with something like :"No! we are cool with you and we have no intention to apply any sort of discriminations against guys like you, join and enjoy!"
3- I signed up and went through their enhanced verification process and started trading occasionally there.
4- During my experience with them I never used fiat paired trading and my volumes were just below $5 K, meanwhile I noticed some unusual patterns like occasional suspensions, removal of positions, rejecting transactions and losing trade opportunities, I even 1-2 times officially objected about such misbehaviours, but it was working for me anyway. I was able to make deposits and withdrawals and I was using it for simple jobs not like a trader after all.
5- In October 2017, my account became disabled while I had like 3 ETH and fractions of other coins there. I sent them a support ticket.
6-
A bot answered, ridiculously demanding users to verify their accounts by supplying a selfie with their IDs or something. My account was already verified (in enhanced mode) and replied properly, no response!
6- After few days, I noticed they have blocked IPs originating from Iran! I was forced to use vpn to check my status. I tried to withdraw my deposits, not allowed, I went through their fucking verification procedure, nothing changed, ...
7- Words came out, thousands of people have been robbed by these criminals, almost any Iranian crypto trader I knew was targeted. I
had a friend who was presented to crypto by me and I've recommended Bittrex to him. He lost all his savings in this story.
Months later he was found almost dead because of OD
... this event destroyed his life and his wife and children's lives forever.
Iranian young crypto community suffered heavily from this event and never healed properly.
It is now almost one year, my deposits are gone like millions of dollars worth deposits of other innocent people. There are Telegram groups, individuals, ... trying to get these bastards with little success.
One thing that bothers me more is how this greedy crypto community prefered to remain silent about this crime to avoid another Mt. Gox like impact and keep bubbling up trend instead. It is just disgusting man.