News

The server hosting the TRON & BTT node/wallet was taken down for hardware upgrades to improve performance. Since the server upgrade the node has been setup and is busy syncing with the main TRON network. Unfortunately this syncing process has taken longer than anticipated. It is unlikely that the node will sync before the end of this week. Our technical team is currently investigating alternative solutions.

We have manually processed all outstanding withdrawals and will continue to manually process any withdrawals until the server is back in sync.

We would like to apologize for the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation and keep you informed.

AltCoinTrader is pleased to announce that we have dropped our fees by more than 50%.

Trading fees will be slashed from 0.8% to 0.375% with immediate effect. What's more, its not only the trading fees that have been dropped, deposit and withdrawal fees have also been slashed.

Please consult our fees page for more information and detail.

AltCoinTrader will be expanding it's trading platform to include precious metals Gold and Silver. We have partnered with leaders in the industry to provide more alternatives to the investing public. All gold and silver, or any other precious metals, traded on AltCoinTrader's platform will be represented and fully backed by real physical gold and silver, or relevant precious metal.

Gold and silver is traded in ounces represented by a one ounce coin. Gold is represented by a Krugerrand in most cases but can also be any one ounce gold coin. No gold, silver or precious metal is ever kept on the premisses. These assets are securely stored off site at one of our third party vaults and can only be withdrawn or deposited via the below procedure.

• Withdrawals

Gold and silver can only be withdrawn in one ounce units. In other words you can buy a small amount of gold to hold, trade or sell but you will not be able to withdraw it unless it is in one ounce units. If you wish to withdraw your gold from AltCoinTrader you would typically be paid out in Krugerrand's. These coins would either be delivered to you via a third party or you would be requested to collect them from one of our many retail partners situated throughout South Africa.

• Deposits

Deposit's will only be accepted if the exchange is low on physical assets and special arrangements would be made for us to accept gold and silver coins. These coins would be taken by our retail partners which are situated throughout South Africa and after the assets have been verified we would credit your AltCoinTrader account with the gold or silver asset.

We are delighted to announce all clients have successfully been credited with the airdropped BTT tokens. These deposits now reflect on the "All Balances" and the "Transaction history ->Deposits" pages.

Our technical team are ready to launch the BTT trading live on our platform. The expected time is Wednesday 20th March 2019 at around 11h00.

Please note that the BTT airdrops are ongoing and clients can expect to be credited with BTT tokens every month til 11th of February 2025. So the more Tron (TRX) you hold in your AltCoinTrader account the more BTT you will receive. For more information on how much you can expect to be credited please have a look at the Official BitTorrent announcement.

Please note that as of May 11, 2020 the BTT airdrop has been ended early. Read more

AltCoinTrader will be supporting the BTT airdrops. Future as well as past airdrops will be credited to all clients.

All clients holding Tron (TRX) will be given the free airdropped BitTorrent (BTT)

BitTorrent (BTT) airdrops will take place on the 11th day of each month till 11th of February 2025

The BitTorrent (BTT) coin will also be added to the AltCoinTrader platform so clients can trade BTT.

Our technical team is working hard to put these upgrades in place. More information and timeline updates coming soon...

The Ethereum hard fork has been delayed due to a newly discovered security vulnerability.The reentrancy vulnerability was discovered by ChainSecurity a smart contract audit company.

There is no reason for concern due to the delay, in fact it only highlights the fact that caution and security are been exercised by the Ethereum development community which is a good thing.

The Ethereum’s core developers have at this stage not announced a date for the upgrade (hard fork) to take place. They have however said that they expect the upcoming fork to be the least eventful one in the history of Ethereum.

This fork should be considered to be more of an upgrade than a fork as it is a planned event by the ethereum development community.

The hard fork will happen on block 7 080 000 which is estimated to take place some time on the 16th of January 2019. The ethereum community does not expect a second coin to emerge from the fork as they seem to have consensus from the network.

Our clients will not have to do anything as we will take care of every technical aspect of the fork and you can rest assured that your ethereum will remain safe on our platform during this upgrade.

Dogecoin (DOGE) trading will soon be live on the AltCoinTrader platform. We expect trading to go live at around 11h00 on the 12th December 2018.

Deposits and withdrawals are currently active to allow clients to deposit Dogecoin (DOGE) so that they have a positive balance when trading goes live.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research on Dogecoin (DOGE) before getting involved. The official site is https://dogecoin.com/

Just when you thought that we simply could not be launching any more new coins this year AltCoinTrader is proud to announce that we will be launching Dogecoin (DOGE) on our trading platform in time for the festive season celebrations. As a thank you for all the support we have received from our customers throughout the year AltCoinTrader will be giving away 200 free Dogecoins to you our loyal supporter...

To qualify for your 200 free Dogecoins all you have to do is:

• Have a verified level 2 AltCoinTrader account with a positive balance (either ZAR or cryptocurrency)
• Have two factor authentication (2FA) on your account

It's that simple! If your AltCoinTrader account meets the above requirements by 12h00 on Monday the 10th of December 2018 you will be credited with 200 FREE Dogecoins on Tuesday the 11th of December 2018.

To find out more information on how to make your account a level 2 account or about adding 2FA, please login to your AltCoinTrader account and check your account level or refer to our Help Centre under Account Security.

We would like to wish all our clients a happy and safe festive season. Happy trading...

BCHABC and BCHSV deposits and withdrawals have now been opened.

Our technical team have advised that it is safe to proceed with both chains and operate as normal. We will be monitoring both the deposits and withdrawals and should any irregularities occur we will once again pause the deposits and withdrawals of BCHABC and BCHSV

Please be aware that you will now have separate BCHABC and BCHSV deposit addresses.

The old BCH deposit addresses will be used for BCHABC and in time we may rename BCHABC back to BCH but that is still under advisement...

In our on going effort to bring our clients top altcoins, AltCoinTrader is proud to announce that we will be launching Monero (XMR) trading on our platform...

As our technical team complete the final testing to ensure that everything not only works properly but also that everything is safe and secure, we are set to launch on 27th November 2018 at around 11h00

Deposits and withdrawals are currently up and running to allow users to deposit Monero (XMR) so that they have a positive balance when trading goes live.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research on Monero (XMR) before getting involved. The official site is https://getmonero.org/

BCHABC and BCHSV are now trading live. Deposits and withdrawals are not yet live as our technical and security teams are still assessing the risks involved.

Deposits are withdrawals will only go live next week if the respective chains are secure.

All pending buy and sell orders on the old BCH trade engine have been cancelled as that coin has fallen away.

A snapshot of all our clients Bitcoin Cash balances was successfully recorded at the exact moment of the Bitcoin Cash hard fork.

All AltCoinTrader clients will now be credited with Bitcoin SV (BCHSV) and Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC) as the original Bitcoin Cash (BCH) falls away.

AltCoinTrader should go live with trading of both coins in the next few hours (we estimate a time of 14h00 for launch). Deposits and withdrawals of these coins will only resume next week due to security reasons.

At 17h00 on the 15th November 2018 AltCoinTrader will pause all BCH interaction including trading, deposits and withdrawals. Our technical and security team have deemed this action necessary as there are still a lot of unknown's surrounding the BCH hard fork.

We are taking this approach to ensure the safety of our clients and the exchange. All our clients coins and forked coins will remain safe and secure during this shut down period.

Trading will commence once our team have properly evaluated the situation and the risk and we are sure it is safe to move forward. This may take hours or even several days!

We appeal to our clients to be patient and to be aware that AltCoinTrader will always focus on your security in times like these.

As you may be aware Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is hardforking on 15 November 2018 and we are pleased to announce that AltCoinTrader will be supporting the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hardfork (Bitcoin SV).

Simply put this means that all clients holding Bitcoin Cash in their AltCoinTrader accounts at the time of the fork, will get Bitcoin SV.

This fork is set to take place on 15 November at 1542300000 UNIX time approximately 18h40 (SAST).

The ratio is 1:1 so you will get one Bitcoin SV for every Bitcoin Cash you hold.

Clients wanting to deposit Bitcoin Cash to take advantage of the free Bitcoin SV coins are welcome to do so, however we ask that this be done as soon as possible as we will need to disable all deposits and withdrawals of Bitcoin Cash a few hours before the fork takes place. This will be done to ensure the safety of our clients and the exchange, we will only turn on deposits and withdrawals once our technical team give us the "all clear". This will be done at our discretion and may be days or weeks after the fork. The safety of our clients is always our top priority and we will make sure that both networks are stable and secure before we allow deposits or withdrawals of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV to resume.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research on this fork before getting involved. More information can be found at https://nchain.com/en/blog/bitcoin-sv-bch-protocol-implementation-satoshi-vision/

As we continue to strive to meet our clients requests for new coins, AltCoinTrader is proud to announce that we will be launching Tron (TRX) trading on our platform...

Our technical team have been hard at work to ensure that everything is safe and secure before we go live. The target date for going live is 30th October 2018 at around 11h00

Deposits and withdrawals are currently up and running to allow users to deposit Tron (TRX) so that they have a positive balance when trading goes live.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research on Tron (TRX) before getting involved. The official site is https://tron.network

XLM trading will soon be live on the AltCoinTrader platform. We expect trading to go live at around 11h00 on the 8th October 2018.

Deposits and withdrawals will go live in the next few days to allow clients to deposit Stellarlumens (XLM) so that they have a positive balance when trading goes live.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research on Stellarlumens (XLM) before getting involved. The official site is https://www.stellar.org

Neo and Gas will launch on 10th of September 2018. Neo and Gas deposits have been live for over a week now to allow clients to make deposits before trading goes live.

Our technical team have estimated that trading should go live at around 11h00 on Monday morning, as we all know with techies times are simply estimations of their intentions and anything can happen...

AltCoinTrader will be launching Neo and Gas on our trading platform in the next few weeks.

We are going to open and allow deposits of both Neo and Gas this week. This will allow clients the opportunity to deposit Neo and Gas into their accounts so that they already have a balance when the trading opens.

AltCoinTrader will not be paying Gas to clients that hold Neo on the exchange, as we encourage clients not to store coins on any exchange and only have what you need to trade on an exchange.

As always AltCoinTrader encourages everyone to please do their own research for more information on NEO and GAS please go to the NEO website https://neo.org

The new trading pair BTC/USDT is set to launch on AltCoinTrader as soon as Monday the 23rd July 2018...

Our technical team are in the final testing phase of the new trading pair, if all goes well we may see this new trading pair live on our exchange in the next few days...

Cardano is currently trading at around $ 0.13 internationally which means this coins is currently worth about R 1.75.

More information on Cardano (ADA) can be found at https://www.cardano.org Please ensure that you do your own research before buying any crypto coins.

AltCoin Trader will be listing Cardano (ADA) on our exchange. At this stage our technical team have not committed to an exact date however it may be as soon as Monday the 25th June 2018 or possibly later in the same week.

Deposit addresses will go live later today or possibly tomorrow...

AltCoin Trader will be listing USDT on our exchange. The target date for listing is Monday the 4th June 2018. Important information about USDT:

• USDT IS ONLY WORTH $1.00
• USDT is unlikely to go up or down as it is tether'ed to the United States Dollar (USD)

Due to the fact that withdrawal fees on many of the crypto networks have been reduced Altcoin Trader have also reduced our withdrawal fees by 50% on the following coins BTC, BCH, DASH and ZEC.

Please see our fees page for full details...

Our technical team have confirmed that the bitcoin private wallet in now up and functioning. Deposits and withdrawals are now working.

Please check your BTCP address as it may have changed. It is important to use the new address as using the old BTCP address may lead to delays in your deposits!