Today upon visiting Bittrex, I saw that there are USD trading pairs.
You can trade these into USD: Bitcoin, Tether and TrueUSD.
Instantly what came to my mind, that this may end the altcoin dependance on Bitcoin. I consider this a really big step towards that.
Personally, I would welcome this, as I'm pretty bored of the altcoins following BTC's trend. Even if some big names criticise Bitcoin, but not any other coin, makes the whole market drop, while only Bitcoin should. This may change easily, and I'm hoping for it.
As I see it, Bitcoin is technically outdated, and I see no point of it other than everything trades into it.
I found some source if you want to dig a little deeper:
https://www.cryptoground.com/a/bittrex-usd-trading-pairsIt's still not available right now, as far as i know the bittrex exchange site is still waiting for the approval from their partner to make USD pair will available on the bittrex exchange site. The team has stated that the bittrex exchange site still need to configure it with the partner to give ability to the users will able to withdraw their money through the USD directly.