BTC-E posted update 5 on the Russian local thread.

1. They have managed to gain control over 55% of the funds, rest of the 45% of funds were seized, mostly fiat.

2. Everyone will get 55% of their funds.

4. Rest of the 45% would be paid in BTE tokens (ICO).

3. Funds in fiat would be paid in BTE tokens which could be exchanged later.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2075551.0

Sure it's real! It happens every day in real life - a brand's main chief is arrested with the brand controlled by the feds, forcing the brand's unknown subordinates residing in Eastern Europe to return all the pseudo-anonymous cryptos still on account, thus allowing the anonymous dudes to garner cred. What part of all that don't you understand?

I was expecting this after FBI busted Alphabay and than Hansamarkt.

obviously russian+international mobs was those who operate and controlle Alphabay and BTC E too.

It is a dot and answer to federals.

The owner of BTC E live is in danger.
As mobs killed Alexander Caze in Thai prison mobs can kill the owner in greece prison. So they can not to investigate further.

Every action has it consequences.

FBI took Alphabay down,mobs took exchange money as they do not have profit from Alpha now.
Circle closed.
Federals dont fucking understand and ruin balance with their dirty hands in ecosystem.
And now we pay for their shit too.

P.S. I still remember the "succsesfull" FBI/DEA operation when they confiscated 20 000 tons of sasafrol oil in africa. Precursor to "exstasy"
After such "success" europe was full with deadly Pmma(dangerous analog of ecstasy) for 5 years with hundreds of death and injuries.


For me was absolutely ok if 40 000 people(total Alphabay active members) from 7 500 000 000 humans in world choose to take drugs. They was absolutely free to make with their body and mind what they want. They are free to chose.

I am not for drugs,I am for freedom  and responsibility of individuals.

DEA old school veterans must retire soon.

The whole splitting up the coin funds into 7 coins confusing. I only had BTC sitting on there, so why can't I just get back 55% of that BTC? Why does it need to be split up into all of the coins? I don't have wallets for 7 coins. I have a feeling due to all the price differences that have happened since then, I won't be seeing anywhere near 55% value back.

Anyone know why he was in Greece?

He probably would've been golden if he had stayed in Russia..

When I saw the news this morning, I immediately thought FBI HONEYPOT. 55% would be a perfect number too: enough to be make it both believable (lots of fiat money would have been seized), and enough to entice users to come back to claim funds. The kicker is that they are asking for KYC. So naturally, it looks like a honeypot to me.

But then, I read about the debt tokenization (and saw "ICO" in the update). That screams "anything but the feds" to me. Now I'm wondering if the KYC is just to deter the more nefarious users (darknet/money laundering/etc) from claiming funds.

So, what are the odds that this is a honeypot?

So according the most recent update they are offering BFX style tokens and also doing an ICO from them.  This could clear the debt instantly if they did a good job on it based on past large ICOs numbers.

Who would put money in BTC-E2 ? These people must be crazy surely.