I (Pizzapower) was one of the first members on BTC-e that was still active these days and trusted the site for 100%, that was also because back in 2011 and 2012 there were 2 hacks, one of which the site owner lost
a lot of coins, Especially for that time it was kind of clear the site could not continue since it was so much money at the time. I offered them to start a crowdfunding contribute fund so that the site could still continue, but they didn´t need it and before I knew it the site was back up and everybody got their funds back!
At the time you could still send messages to the real owner, which he replied always correct but shortly.
Because of the hacks, the site protected themselves severely and according to some skilled computer guys and old members in 2012 the site was impossible to hack, even in the worst case the site was not possible to confiscate only minimal loss of coins would occur.
The admins of BTC-e were honest guys not black hackers! I have one proof of this!
back in 2012 I ever asked the chatbox and community if somebody could help me find a good hacker. I didnt tell them the reason so it could have been anything but in fact it was only because I wanted to trol on a race bike discussion board.
(at that time we were a very close community everybody helped and knew eachother most of us were early miners and high skilled computer tech guys)
I immediately got BANNED for 3 months for asking for a hacker.. And this while I got a very good name in the community, I helped a lot of people with technical questions as well and I had a good name with the admins! They warned me and told me this is not some kind of blackhat site and the admin told me very strongly and confidently.
Please BTC-e admins, open the site again as a mirror on TOR, or at least another name like .org. Everything is with .com can be blocked
-Use a very strong double or tripple Captcha and other ddos protection and so on..
-Remove all banktransfer options! just keep everyting the same only stop connecting bank accounts to your site. The BTC-e dollar codes work fine as a transfer between members, and withdraw and deposit has and should happen in coins anyway.
-I warned the BTC-e staff in 2012 after the shutdown of Exchangezone.com to please not add $ bank transfers, because people mis use it. but the Admins are legitimate people and said they have nothing to fear because they do nothing illegal, they just want to have a solid and trust-full token exchange
-it is really sad the BTC-e community has nothing to do with hackers or randsomware, our site was mis used only because of we do not have KYC, but last months there were even reports the admins were getting stricter new members with large sums got their accounts frozen. It really is true that they did not like the fact that blackhats were mis using the site. but on the other hand they tried to keep it an open token exchange like the core principles of bitcoin also represents..
-during the years I told over 3 serious investors about btc-e and that I trusted the site, as a result they had accounts with over a million $ in btc-e, I also met other users in real life on the Consensus fair all legitimate people using the BTC-e site!
please take your time. but please do not let the Brand BTC-e die like this
Let us be the normal nerds
token exchange again, and we really do not need the banktransfers!! So the bankhackers will not be there again
Another option could be start an ICO and issue tokens BTC-e decentralized ! and use the Waves platform and let BTC-e REBORN again !! Regards to everybody from the chatbox and admins,
Pizzapower
