@manifest class - yeah, though the idea of a paper wallet for a digital currency has always baffled my internal logic processors!
@peder - true - is it a currency or is it a commodity? If there were just a few cryptos around it would be easier I guess, but there are little hundreds or maybe thousands of the suckers. Few places genuinely accept BTC, I know Humble Store does and there was talk of Steam doing so, but the majority of altcoins the only real value is trade, turn into one of the established big ctypros when you want to do something, and then choose from the small number of stores / use a processing site (potentially risky) or buy gift vouchers with them (giftoff or crytptodechange) - I favoured the last option personally. You could try selling the crypto for fiat but again I always felt the risk was fairly high with that.
@tzachs - thanks for that, I may look into those. Though I have not and will not put a penny of "real" money into this, it was great being able to buy gift vouchers with the crypto. If Trex is truly out of line as it seems, it will cause even bigger shockwaves than the Crytpsy scandal. I've heard of Coinbase of course although I have to admit that Gemini is not an exchange I really know of. (I have little to no funds on a couple of other exchanges so I can't lose much more!!)
@selmiak - very true, but it's not like Bittrex is a new company - they've been around for ages and I've never had even the tiniest trouble with them before. Sadly, it seems that this was either a VERY long-term scam, or simply that they've run into trouble and are covering their losses unethically.
