I have only used Coinbase to this point. No trouble but the limits are so low its hard to buy much.

I have $100 funds in bittrex facing problem as yours and can'tbe withdrawn also, its been 2 weeks and I don't know if it will be resolve!

However, shapeshift has high btc transaction fee and blocktrades suck for 0.002 bitcoin transaction fee also! I hate them both!

Sorry to hear that. I got verified when they asked me to and all seemed to be ok. Yes, everyone nowadays is utterly swamped with users request. Did you try their slack?

ha! You have had exactly the same experience as me and seemingly many others who have used Bittrex. I have gone over to Cryptopia. They have their issues like most seem to. Never lost any coins and all of my transactions have been processed seamlessly. I suppose it is what ever works for you. Cryptopia doesn't trade sbd, which is a bit of a git. I am no expert, by any means, so this is just my personal experience. Great post.

Thank you for the information you provided, hopefully helping people who have not used bittrex yet. as it says, if it happened like the thing you experienced, it is very difficult to contact them, I have experienced it, but my problem about steem transfer error to bittrex, 1 month I wait, but there is no definitive explanation about my Steem very difficult to talk to.
Thank you @nanzo-scoop have a nice day.

there is no use of these exchanges at this moment both are playing in their own style it's better to trade quickly and move funds immediately who knows when they will disable

Thank you so much for the warning. Only a month into Cryptocurrency and the volatility of the exchanges has me wondering if it's worth it sometimes. Although yesterdays $iota run has me second guessing that concern after all. Appreciate the candor and will look at safer ways to trade! Drove me batty I couldn't move stuff when I wanted.

Thank you.  This provided some essential information about bittrex that I was missing.

So, it looks like bittrex, probably unaware to themselves, have made a system where you can send coins in, but can't get them out.

Instead of setting up the proper level of account information first, and then giving you that level of access.  They only assess that level after.

And, the piece about matching you up to public records is important to know.  For reasons like, if you moved recently.  Or had your credit ratings hacked.

Thanks

Hard to say whether they are intentionally trying to screw people over or just struggling to keep up with overwhelming demand. Like you say, time will tell

Any exchanger can do the same for us, this why we havn't keep there a lot of money, such things happen because the price of bitcoin is going up like crazy and they may need that money to earn much more, but holding money of people is not fair, I think they already have a lot of money earned from commisions, why being so greedy I don't really understand some people !

Thanks for sharing your recent Bittrex experience and thoughts on the topic in general. Scary to think your funds can get frozen on the exchange due to some small technicality. 

I once opened a ticket with Bittrex because I thought I had accidentally duplicated my request to withdraw funds from my bank account. I never heard back from them, but only one transaction came through... so I’m not really sure if the ticket did anything. 

Good luck with with your crazy Bittrex situation and definitely keep us posted!

Sorry to hear about this, sounds terrible

I had the same message and managed to trade ok last night. Prob lock me out next time, thanks for the heads up will proceed with caution. Bitfinex have reports of problems too.

Nice post! I upvoted and followed you.           Can you check my last blog post about crypto: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@cryptoizotx/crypto-market-sentiment-update-december-3-2017 ?

My SBD deposit today in Poloniex just went lost Sir @nanzo-scoop
How about yours?

I got a beef with BITCH-TREX too!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@darthnava/looking-for-a-bittrex-admin-member-of-steemit-to-address-my-complaint

Very informative. Thanks for the info. I’m looking to get some altcoins. Which exchange would you recommend using at this point? The two you mentioned?

Don't leave your coins in your exchanges. Transfer to your offline wallet as soon as you can. Leave the small amount of trading.  Even these big companies cannot estimate the demand for the crypto world. Goodluck!

It's a pity that Steеm and Sod are traded only on Polonix and Bitrix!

I agree with you, we need a new decentralized exchange of crypto-currencies and this is a fact ...

I just withdrew all that I had out of there since they wouldn't let me withdraw a little at a time. They make no mention of minimum withdrawal amounts on their site yet they kept telling me that my withdrawal was too low, even though it more than covered the transaction fee. As a minnow I need to be able to withdraw 0.00001 BTC! 
Right now I'm going to use Blocktrade to send my SBD to Uphold as BTC. I don't know if this is a great idea or not, but I like them so far.

Almost forgot to mention, nearly every time I log on I have to check my email because it says I'm logging on from a new ip address. This annoyance is another reason why I decided to drop them.

It is time for the decentralized exchanges, now and for evermore. Long live blockchain technology.

Traders need decentralized exchanges so nothing like that would happen

Thanks for the info. I just logged in and was presented with the same message. I hope you get your crypto out. I saw I had 16 cents on there. They can keep it.

Thank you for the post. I am in the same situation with the lock on withdrawals. Can anyone who had this problem reply this comment informing how much time elapsed for the verification to proceed. I agree that allowing people to deposit funds then locking the withdrawal is a very bad procedure.

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Just don't keep your coins in the exchange. As soon as the buy goes through send the coins to your own wallet that you hold the private keys for.

I had noticed another problem with Bittrex. There is a very good chance that they have software executing a "front running" scam. So you place an order to sell, and almost instantly, there's an order lower than yours. This can be normal market movement, however, if it happens ALL the time, it could possibly be front running which causes you to drop your price to get your asset sold. aka Execute your trade.

I thought it a minor annoyance until an experienced trader I know mentioned it as potential front running. Just FWIW.

I was an enhanced user, was trading there for a many months after leaving Polo with all its glitches.  I loved Bittrex.  Right when btc was peaking I sent some alts into my account to sell for bitcoin and cash out.  I noticed they had lowered my withdrawal amount and made me a basic member again for some reason.  I resubmitted my credentials and was blocked shortly after becoming enhanced user again.  I know shit happens and for whatever reason they needed to do that but then when I started researching I learned there is over a two month backlog for gettin unlocked.  In fact, I have found not ONE single person that has said they have been unlocked.  I keep looking. Please let me know if you have been.  I am a week in and very mad.  The trade I was trying to make would have been my only cash out and now the coins are locked up and they have plummeted in price.  I lost a lot of money and am now scrambling to figure out what to do.  There is a youtube video where a guy says he has had the same experience and he has 30 btc on bittrex.  Over two months.   No response.  Nothing.    I try not to keep coins on trading sites but this is outrageous.  I am a us citizen as is the guy with the 30 btc locked up.  Many, many users can be found commenting on bittrex's twitter posts.  Over 2000 on the most recent tweet there.  Go see for yourself.  #bittrexproblems

<p>I am using bitshares and it is working out great and I think that decentralized exchanges are the future!</p>