As I understood it, this is the reason why Bter halted deposits:
CENT deposit is disabled CENT wallet because the current transfer operations are not designed to handle more than one billion purse, affect our users recharge CENT, we will solve as soon as possible, thank you for your understanding and support.
So a fix in this area would help Pennies tremendously.
We can look into increasing the transaction sizes after the stake fix is locked in, that is the priority. In the interim there's nothing to prevent bter from writing a software solution to split the amounts into values under 1 billion if they use account to account transfers when initiating a trade.
BTER.com only closed CENT deposits to sell their own stake coins, no other reason.
lol, I never thought of that. It's certainly a possibility. It does sound like a bit of a cop-out excuse.