BTC-e hacked ??

[Cryptoneer]

I'm also in the EU and I don't want the US gov to steal from us. :-/

What IT devices were recovered from vinnik that had any link with btc-e?
mobile phones and laptops are not somewhere an exchange with such huge volume would store a cold wallet, and definitely not a guy would keep it with him while travelling around. It seems like feds did not get ahold of the coins or they would have bragged/talked about the number of btc//$$ confiscated. Must be the admins at btc-e who are still holding the coins, and in their position, its easier to do nothing and lay low, never to be seen again. Either way we will not be seeing our money. I dont blame btc-e and nor should you. They have no choice but to disappear with our money, because they can never use it, nor they can run btc-e again(thats inviting shitload of more trouble). I have lost $500 while not significant to someone of you, was a lot of money for me. Although I want them to resume so I could withdraw like I planned on withdrawing it last week. I don't feel we will see our money again. Its all speculation on what is happening right now.

$500 is still a considerable amount, a month's salary for a lot of people in this world. If it was $20-100 I might think otherwise, but in the hundreds it if enough to be large.

[smartcrypto]

It would be nice if they would allow us to move our funds to a new exchange. Let the btc-e name be dropped.

Basicly he open a new exchange which will cover losses for btc-e clients. Completely legal as far as I know.

All funds are not attached to 'btc-e' anyway, but to nameless wallets (there's no authority for crypto's) or third party company bank accounts (fiat).

They cant do that. They would have to give up on btc-e completely and give funds to users is a huge hassle if they cannot restore btc-e operations. A lot of people are holding fiat and btc-e guys need a legal way to resume the whole operation, or they simply cannot.

[OMlite]

I think we lost all. Would like everybody have his money back,but if we lost better than russian btce guys steal our money and not usa goverment,that they are the biggest thieves

are you out of your mind?
BTC-e has been sized because it was doing illegal business.
Or, at least, one of its head operator was.
They are responsible of all the money lost. And you also want to give them a hug?

If the coins have not been seized by Fed (as it seems for now)... they have to return them.
Otherwise they will be additionally charge of theft and fraud.

They cannot simply disappear with the money. And no one should wish this.
(unless you work at BTCe )

As far As I can see, there are 3 options:
1). money has been seized. bye bye money.
2). btc-e still have all the money (at least the crypto assets) and they run for it. ---> They already have the feds on their tails. The feds would love to tear them all apart confirming that btc-e was "indeed an illegal operation". More arrests follow.
3). BTC-e dismisses the arrested guy. Pays the fine. Restores a mirror site, enforces rules, and gives back the money.

The third option will:
Keep most of BTC-e employers out of jail.
Restoring (although it takes time) the valuable business they had.
Return money to happy costumers that will praise their new god (btc-e).

We will see how it plays.
But please, stop wishing that Russian guys have steal the money

[ahmedjadoon]

What IT devices were recovered from vinnik that had any link with btc-e?
mobile phones and laptops are not somewhere an exchange with such huge volume would store a cold wallet, and definitely not a guy would keep it with him while travelling around. It seems like feds did not get ahold of the coins or they would have bragged/talked about the number of btc//$$ confiscated. Must be the admins at btc-e who are still holding the coins, and in their position, its easier to do nothing and lay low, never to be seen again. Either way we will not be seeing our money. I dont blame btc-e and nor should you. They have no choice but to disappear with our money, because they can never use it, nor they can run btc-e again(thats inviting shitload of more trouble). I have lost $500 while not significant to someone of you, was a lot of money for me. Although I want them to resume so I could withdraw like I planned on withdrawing it last week. I don't feel we will see our money again. Its all speculation on what is happening right now.

BTC-E owners should refund all users ASAP else they are the one to be blamed.

[bigguy597]

I think we lost all. Would like everybody have his money back,but if we lost better than russian btce guys steal our money and not usa goverment,that they are the biggest thieves

are you out of your mind?
BTC-e has been sized because it was doing illegal business.
Or, at least, one of its head operator was.
They are responsible of all the money lost. And you also want to give them a hug?

If the coins have not been seized by Fed (as it seems for now)... they have to return them.
Otherwise they will be additionally charge of theft and fraud.

They cannot simply disappear with the money. And no one should wish this.
(unless you work at BTCe )

As far As I can see, there are 3 options:
1). money has been seized. bye bye money.
2). btc-e still have all the money (at least the crypto assets) and they run for it. ---> They already have the feds on their tails. The feds would love to tear them all apart confirming that btc-e was "indeed an illegal operation". More arrests follow.
3). BTC-e dismisses the arrested guy. Pays the fine. Restores a mirror site, enforces rules, and gives back the money.

The third option will:
Keep most of BTC-e employers out of jail.
Restoring (although it takes time) the valuable business they had.
Return money to happy costumers that will praise their new god (btc-e).

We will see how it plays.
But please, stop wishing that Russian guys have steal the money

I said want money back,but if not back prefer steal russian btce that fucking usa that create all the problem to users

[kosaet]

Everyone must to move BTC to Electrum or Core before the 1 of August.
Otherwise you can loose all your coins.

Agree with you.. better to move it to safest place..

Poloniex being shaddy from past few days. i wont be shocked if it becomes another BTC-e

[jonnyrock]

i doubt we will get our btc back but the thing that keeps me hopeful is that btce staff are hopefully russian ,the usa has only the courage to pick on the weak and if russia is willing to host btce and protect their citizens the us will never have the balls to act .we know this from the way the conduct themselves around the world .

[yslyv]

i doubt we will get our btc back but the thing that keeps me hopeful is that btce staff are hopefully russian ,the usa has only the courage to pick on the weak and if russia is willing to host btce and protect their citizens the us will never have the balls to act .we know this from the way the conduct themselves around the world .

I think it is nearly impossible for you to take your money if that arrested guy doesnt want. And why would he want? What is his benefit in paying back?

[reb0rn21]

i doubt we will get our btc back but the thing that keeps me hopeful is that btce staff are hopefully russian ,the usa has only the courage to pick on the weak and if russia is willing to host btce and protect their citizens the us will never have the balls to act .we know this from the way the conduct themselves around the world .

I think it is nearly impossible for you to take your money if that arrested guy doesnt want. And why would he want? What is his benefit in paying back?

What is it??? are you stupid???
NOT BEING A THIEVE !

[stompix]

i doubt we will get our btc back but the thing that keeps me hopeful is that btce staff are hopefully russian ,the usa has only the courage to pick on the weak and if russia is willing to host btce and protect their citizens the us will never have the balls to act .we know this from the way the conduct themselves around the world .

If your hope is the Russian government than there is no hope.
Those guys will just take all the coins and money and the admins will die in "tourist" accident like the son of Yanukovych or so many that committed suicide.

[stingray454]

So some people have been quoting btc-e admins earlier, so at least someone has been able to contact them. It would be really good to get some kind of statement from them - what their plans are, if they think it's possible to solve, if the FBI froze all funds, and so on. Bad news is still a lot better than no news at all.

Personally I consider the money lost. I would love to see it open up again and reimbursing lost funds to users, but the chances for that seems really small considering the silence.

[xtimus]

0.0001 Ether just moved from the BTC-e wallet
https://etherscan.io/address/0x91337a300e0361bddb2e377dd4e88ccb7796663d

Someone has access to it.

[E_1337]

Does feel good seeing that small transaction...

[ahmedjadoon]

Wow $91 million in ETH only. Guess they could easily pay the fine.

[xtimus]

I think someone is testing out servers hopefully.

[E_1337]

I think someone is testing out servers hopefully.

Yeah unless its uncle sam testing...

[miner16]

And it has been transferred back, in.

Could be the guys showing us they still have control of the funds, unless the whole balance gets shifted to another place ?

[tradercouch]

btc-e most trusted crypto exchange and stuffs also but we are not waiting for response update. btc-e said 5 to 10 days so we should wait. and just domain seized not fund so fund still btc-e admins have or whatever who have access. and we have hope that btc-e will returns our coins.. and seized news can be FUD also. and i am not seeing any seized image on btc-e website... just error cloudflare

[xtimus]

0.0001 Ether transferred in from a different wallet.

If you have the keys you have access to the wallet so looks like someone out there has access to the keys.

[OMlite]

https://live.blockcypher.com/ltc/address/LXA3i9eEAVDbgDqkThCa4D6BUJ3SEULkEr/

Just for reference, this should be one of the BTC-e litecoin hotwallet