The cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex updated its trading platform, changing the front page, making visible a logo that not many people saw before and also considerable changes were made on the exchange interface, sadly, some serious stuff has been going on Bittrex for some time now, lets first talk about the visual changes and later we will discuss the serious part shall we? My name is Nerio Parra, welcome to my blog.

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As the market tries to emerge from the depression that started in January, some crypto exchanges try to keep their business "on point" for example Binance opened withdrawals for Super Bitcoin (SBTC), also added support for Bitcoin X (BCX) , made several contests, started a hacker bounty, made a MacOs client (it's worth to mention that their Smartphone app works GREAT) and much much more and that's only Binance alone but it seems everyone is doing their best to survive the red numbers for the first trimester.

First impressions

(1) They added the markets to the left, so you could see the %variation of some coins and you can sort them by BTC, ETH, USD and search for other coins as well. This could be done before with a bar that was on the top.

(2) They made the graph section bigger and you got a dark theme from the start, I don't know if they are trying to make you feel at home emulating Bitstamp, Kukoin or Binance, but you get the dark theme by default now, of course, you can change it on settings.

The order book

The order book suffered a considerable redesign since now you have the controls in the middle, I don't know you but it feels really weird to me.

its all pretty but....

Something totally dreadful is that they removed the possibility to download the previous trading history. Before the "update" you could download an extremely messy CVS file where (after a lot of effort) you could check all the trades you made, now that possibility is gone.

You can still download Your ENTIRE TRADING HISTORY, on the "orders" section which obviously is a CVS file and a nightmare to read, now, read well, ENTIRE TRADING HISTORY, that's for all your coins together, so you don't have a separated history for each coin anymore.

Now that's not the entire "story", they also deleted the recent trading history so you can't see the previous orders you made before the update.

Take for example my XRP order history..... ITS GONE, and let me tell you, I am a scalper, which means I HAD SEVERAL ORDERS made, thanks Bittrex.

Why is this a problem?

Well, besides the obvious, all economic activity must be tracked so you can see where you're going, what areas need improving, measure the losses, and every possible data you can collect out of your business activity ends being important. What makes it even more important is the sector we are talking about which is -trading- where EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF DATA you collect could be important.

I've seen several businesses going down only because of their bad accounting and poor management on the business numbers.

Now something even worse....

Taking out the possibility to check a separate trading history for each coin is bad but something EVEN WORSE is that in February they took down ALL ACTIVE ORDERS, so if you were on vacations or really busy and you had set up some cool ORDERS, well, Bittrex just arbitrarily destroyed your plans.

You were warned

Bittrex announced changes to their terms and conditions on their forums on February 02, 2018, I informed the community about this because I was worried and.... I was right, people already lost money had they had orders set up previous to the update.

The solution?

I've mentioned this before. The solution comes in the form of decentralized exchanges where YOU are the control of your money. I'll be sharing a tutorial on this really soon, for now, I might be migrating to Binance.

What are your thoughts?

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