Bittrex Closing Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Wallets

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Published Oct 10, 2018 04:37AM ET

Updated Oct 10, 2018 05:41AM ET

Bittrex Closing Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Wallets

After removing markets for Bitcoin Gold (BTG) , Bitcoin Private (BTCP), and Bitshares (BTS), cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex will also close down the wallets. Withdrawals will be possible until November 5.

Bitcoin Gold was delisted in September after a double-spending attack and a hack that led to losses of around $18 million, which were covered by the project team. Bitshares, a mystifying project by Dan Larimer and a precursor to EOS, has not traded on Bittrex since 2017 due to difficulties in supporting the technology. As for Bitcoin Private, the exchange never offered pairs for this rather late fork of Bitcoin. BTCP was simply airdropped to owners of...


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