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Bittrex Withdrawals Set to Resume After Bankruptcy Court Gives Green Light

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Cryptocurrency trading platform Bittrex is expected to resume customer withdrawals on June 15 following an order from a judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Cointelegraph.com reported. The decision does not settle the question of the subordination of U.S. government claims, which had led to objections against its plan. “Objections (if any) to the Motion having been withdrawn, resolved or overruled on the merits,” Judge Brendan Shannon’s June 13 order read. It went on to stipulate that nothing in the motion or the order constituted a finding on whether crypto assets or transactions with them are securities. The order also specified that it does not determine the priority of creditors or prohibit the U.S. from clawing back assets from customers if it is not paid in full. Bittrex’s largest creditor is the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), to which it owes $24 million.