It doesn't say anything about BTC-E, that's right, but the absence of their service and the co owner that got arrested on the same day are no longer coincidence.

I am actually surprised and glad at the same time that at least for now, it seems that the servers aren't seized ~ but that's just speculation.

Virwox has been active since 2007, where the recent articles are pointing at a service that started operating in 2011, which matches up perfectly with BTC-E.

Few hours ago BTC-E tweeted about maintenance which can take 5 -10 days. But I don't believe that they will come back. If they won't come back, it means that I lost f**king $2! Never liked this exchange due to their big fees
But I hate to see when popular bitcoin services goes out of business. This year we already lost few leaders in their spheres - firstly Directbet decided to close, few days ago Bitmixer closed service for unclear reasons and now BTC-E owner is arrested and service is down. It looks that everything is temporary in bitcoin world...
But maybe it's too early to say goodbye to btc-e. Let's hope they will come back.

Scary news. One day things seem fine. Next day you switch on your PC and everything's gone. Crypto is not for the faint-hearted.

It's a bit ironic. Gox got goxxed due to btc-e - Now, it's like a reverse goxx'ing....  Scary/sad stuff. Let's see if this guy actually makes it out of the prison - Pretty sure the russian mobsters who "own" this guy won't let him spill much if anything... Time will tell I guess... Not sure how people who do this kind of thing sleep at night, but then again when you are insanely rich you probably feel a bit ahead of the pack.

I just heard that they tried to run away with approximately 66k bitcoin. It's good that police were able to track them down. But I am sure the legitimate bitcoin owners will never get back their amount and it will be seized by the government to fill up their treasury as unclaimed funds.

It is really a sad news because due to these kind of scammers, the reputation of bitcoin is in danger and general people will think that bitcoin users are mostly scammers because they don't get to look at the bigger pictures.

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


IT'S ABOUT BTC-E, wake up !

omg, i didn't expect to be this far. I have never believed anyone who says anything about a good exchange and this exchange was one from some good Bitcoin exchanges which have very high amount of trading money rolling in them. people sometimes even forget that they have money in this exchange and after a year when they visit this exchange the money was still there. I literally being inspired by this exchange and now it is gone.

Exactly!!
WTF is going?? They need first to solve problems inside their country.
Fuck Yankees.

Alphabay,Hansa now BTCE .

Why they decide for everyone???