Your mistake was using a middleman for trading, especially for a currency like byteball where there is effectively just one exchange!
All of my previous transactions with Changelly went smoothly - no indicators that this was coming - they had earned my trust.
Bittrex's surprise reduction of withdrawal limits, on the other hand, was a trust-buster for me and led me to try Changelly's service.
Using Changelly again - that would be a mistake.
Even if Bittrex's wallet was down for maintenance for most of the time surrounding the airdrop, it's completely irrelevant.
It's just a red herring being used by the scammers to try to keep their loot.
Just in case it's not clear, let me illustrate:
- Byteball's DAG shows exactly which addresses held my GBYTE at the time of the Byteball snapshot.
- Byteball's DAG also shows that those addresses received the airdropped GBYTE that was rightfully mine
- Changelly has said that if they find that they DID receive the airdropped GBYTE that rightfully belongs to me, they would pay it back to me
I presented the DAG evidence to Changelly. Changelly has since gone silent (9+ days and counting).
Question: How does Bittrex's wallet maintenance have any effect on the above facts?
Answer: It doesn't.
Whether or not Bittrex's wallet was under maintenance, and/or when, does not change the immutable facts of Byteball's ledger which shows which addresses held my GBYTE and were therefore unjustly enriched.
The real mistake here lies with the scammers who don't understand that they're up against a ledger of irrefutable evidence.