Topic: BTC-e hacked ?? - page 123. (Read 199719 times)

If he was really arrested, then the site going down, THEN getting updated, seems really fishy.

Been thinking what scenarios that could lead to that...

- I read on an article linked on reddit that the founders of BTC-e are Aleksey and Alexander. It could be Aleksey updating the site, still thinking of how to proceed.

Or WORSE, the updates stopped because he was also arrested afterwards.

- Or if you think about it, BTC-e's only fault is the lack of licenses/legal mumbo-jumbo (BitLicense, KYC/AML, constrictive withdrawal limits, etc.). This allows things like the what that other linked article is talking about, 95% of ransomware proceeds are sent to BTC-e, probably DNM coins too, etc.

In this case, since his only violation is running an "unlicensed exchange", he MIGHT be cooperating with the authorities (tracing the people behind ransomware or DNMs, using BTC-e logs). Although it would be unlikely they would let him update the site.

- Or the site updates and the tweets were triggered by a deadman's switch.

I just hope if it's Aleksey or some other admin doing updates, that they eventually allow crypto withdrawals (those in BTC-e fiat would probably screwed though, maybe the delay has something to do with them trying to figure out that part).

Or that it's the wrong guy, not the correct Alexander and it's all a HUGE coincidence.

Sadly it's true, btc-e admin involved in money laundering.

Translate from Greek: http://www.dailythess.gr/h-megali-klopi-bitcoins-dark-web-ke-chlidati-zoi-tou-rosou-pou-entopise-fbi-sti-chalkidiki/

BTC-e admins are now erasing all the traces and moving funds to safe.

Servers maybe already empty, next you will see is seized flag at btc-e.com

Then it is too late!

I'm not completely sure this is the case (although it may be).  Just because the U.S. arrested him - if his keys are in cold storage under Russian control those are more Russian bitcoins than the U.S. bitcoins.

Should be interesting to watch play out.

https://thebitcoinnews.com/alexander-vinnik-admin-btc-e-arrested-greece-4-billion-bitcoin-money-laundering/

Did some digging which led me to this topic, see the image here.

It has the name of Alexander Vinnik, which could mean that this is his profile on bitcointalk: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/wme-43575

He seems to be involved with exchanges for a long time, running wm-exchange and trading in the forums. However he does not strike me as the owner of btc-e, I don't think the owner would bother with small scale trades like these, so it could be a coincidence, just a guy with the same name. Still, it may warrant further investigation.

Basically everything is now lost. Money, btc, eth, ltc, ... these will never be released when servers are seized.

Look what happened with Megaupload, people nothing to do with criminal activities will always suffer.
Some of them are still trying to get there files back after years of faiting with US. If you had something in BTC-e it's time to move on.

I hope so

But the trust that btc-e is scam and not back again

If the government arrests you because 95% of the cashouts on ransomware were going thru your website.  Blames it on stupid SEC laws.  And decides to kill your website.  If you have the ability to shut it down, it will be shut down.

why on earth an arrest would stop the entire operation.

My opinion is that they have a problem, some damage or hack but not a gamebreaking one.

They are here for many years , they make 100 k $ every day, I believe all is going to go well.

It would be fun to see

95% of ransomware funds were run thru btc-e.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/25/google-ransomware-tracking-bitcoin/506560001/

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-alexander-vinnik-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-killing-state-22887976.html

That's pretty much a normal thing nowadays, since every event with a potentially negative tint may be used in an attempt to get the price to tank. If a new Twitter statement comes through in the coming hours, we'll see the fud train lose steam, but if we don't happen to see any sort of statement, expect the fud to increase a notch or two. I must point out that I start to feel slightly worried with quite some funds sitting in my account there. I am seriously glad that I haven't made any more BTC deposits, as I was initially planning to do. As said before in this thread, as long as there isn't an FBI warning/notification on the front page, things should be fine (at least, I hope so).

if this is the btc-e guy feds caught, wouldn't feds put the website down immediately or place a "seizure" document on display? btc-e.com still shows a maintenance page.

Ouch, sorry to hear that. I've always avoided having anything large on there, as they've always seemed shady to me.

I don't think the impact will be like Gox as BTC-e is a much smaller component of the whole market, but we'll see.

Wait for the site to start working again or a statement from law enforcement.

Doing anything else is a waste of energy.

Lol the fud is increasing.

anyone has an answer? okpay is running with customers funds so if they are related we are doomed.

Unfortunately the similarities are way too many. This would be one hell of a coincidence...

I wonder if he's somehow related to this Vinik:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Vinik

Just can't seem to trust the moneychangers anymore.