The halting of new account creations by exchanges (Bittrex and Binance) shows the control they have and the power they hold in the crypto world. In the latest news, Bittrex has suspended the creation of Ethereum deposit addresses. I don't think this is necessarily being done for purposes of control, but is rather due to the inability to scale. The support network in terms of adapting to increased demand is considerably lacking. With so much growth potential and increased interest one would think this is something the exchanges would have thought of and made the necessary changes to adapt long before now so it did not have to come to temporarily closing very basic actions these exchanges perform.
