Bittrex are just trying to kill Mintpal (big volume on mintpal for BC). That's why they want to offer BC market on Bittrex. It's simply a question of business
My2c
well, we have been requesting mintpal to use BC as base pair for months (since April) and they did not listen.
Mintpal should do something to keep the customer. It is not too late to open BC market at mintpal now.