Bittrex is a ponzi scheme. They are long gone. The site is on automatic. What they are doing is very illegal. It may not have completely collapsed yet, as some people can still withdraw, and that is their plausible deniability, for now, but make no mistake. They do not have your funds and they are not planning to give you your coins back, ever. They have stolen your crypto tokens. It has nothing to do with regulations. They are scammers. Period. The best we can do is launch a lawsuit and hope to settle for a fraction of what is owed to us. Stop defending these criminals.
those regulations they are talking about do exists but they only go into effect in may 2018 , so bittrex did not need to lock out unverified legacy accounts or anyone else yet they being assholes in forcing people to get verified now. thats why poloniex gave a warning to legacy accounts thats regulation is coming so we can get our coins. so imo its a real possibility that bittrex is getting ready to scam everybody , bittrex even edited old msgs to suit thers current needs thats scammy.