Bittrex International, Malta-based international unit of United States' crypto exchange Bittrex, will cease operations in Venezuela and 30 other countries.
No clear reason for the actionIn an email to Venezuelan customers, Bittrex International announced that the exchange will halt account and trading access to users on Oct. 29, asking them to withdraw their funds with the exchange before that date, Cointelegraph en Español reports on Oct. 19.According to the report, the Malta-based international trading platform of Bittrex has informed its entire user base in Venezuela that it will stop its services for users in the country without citing a clear reason for the action.
31 countries totally banned from the serviceHowever, Venezuela is not the only country that will have to stop using Bittrex's services this time, according to information acquired by Cointelegraph en Español.
The firm confirmed to the Cointelegraph en Español team that it is actually halting the service for a total of 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Yemen.
As previously reported, Venezuela has become more reliant on decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin in order to avoid sanctions by the U.S. Venezuela's national oil-pegged cryptocurrency, Petro, was also purportedly designed to allow the country to gain access to new forms of international financing as well as to skirt sanctions.
In early September, Bitcoin trading volumes in Venezuela hit another record as volume on peer-to-peer exchange LocalBitcoins surged 48%. On Oct. 1, two Venezuelan companies have partnered to release a cryptocurrency debit card and point-of-sale system supporting Bitcoin, Ether, Dash and Petro.
Yesterday, another popular U.S.-based crypto exchange Poloniex announced it is spinning out from its parent company Circle to establish a new exchange that will not support trading for customers based in the U.S..
Bittrex International Halts Service in Venezuela and 30 More Countries
Publié le Oct 19, 2019
by Cointele | Publié le Coinage
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