confirmed:
The 38-year-old is characterized by the US authorities as one of the leading members of an organization that was running large amounts of money through an online Bitcoin digital exchange platform that helped to "launder" more than $ 4 billion from 2011 to date! This is the BTC-e platform, which after the 38-year-old is arrested as the US prosecution investigation is in full swing.
The Big Bit Theft, the Dark Web and the Sleazy Life of the Russian Who Detected the FBI in Halkidiki
Vassilis Kyriacoulis
38-year-old Russian Alexander Vinnik enjoyed his vacation with his partner in one of the most expensive hotels in Ouranoupoli in Halkidiki. He had not realized the slightest of the FBI steps he had been watching for months, informing the Greek prosecution authorities of his action. Yesterday after a surprise operation he was arrested and today he was handcuffed to the prosecutor of the Thessaloniki Court of Appeals in order to start the proceedings for his extradition to the United States.
The 38-year-old is characterized by the US authorities as one of the leading members of an organization that was running large amounts of money through an online Bitcoin digital exchange platform that helped to "launder" more than $ 4 billion from 2011 to date! This is the BTC-e platform, which after the 38-year-old is arrested as the US prosecution investigation is in full swing.
In the traces of the massive attack on Mt. Gox
Characteristically, according to the documents sent to the Greek authorities on the bitcoins exchange platform behind which the 38-year-old Russian is hiding, a large part of the "stolen" removed from Mt. Gox , which by the end of 2014 managed 70% of the volume of bitocoin trades worldwide, but after the attack it received declared bankrupt.
The trial of MT's CEO recently kicked off in Tokyo. Gox Mark Karpelès , who accused the hackers of the 850,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 500 million, lost in 2014. According to documents that reached 306,853 bitcoins stolen after the attack on Mt. Gox entered the BTC-e purses. According to the same documents another part of the stolen from the attack on Mt. Gox arrived at a San Francisco exchange office.
Alexander Vinnik on his admission to the courts of Thessaloniki
"One of the biggest" money laundering "on the Internet
As stated in the documents sent by the US Department of Justice, BTC-e is "one of the largest entities in the field of electronic money laundering and money laundering in the world". According to the US authorities, "illegal proceeds come from a number of high-level piracy, ransom repayment systems, drug trafficking and tax systems." As the US authorities have estimated on this platform since 2011, 12.5 million bitcoins have been filed and blamed, and blame the 38-year-old Russian and his colleagues for spilling at least $ 4 billion!
Corrupt agents
Through the platform behind which the Russians are accused of allegedly scamming money, two corrupt US federal agents Carl Force and Shaun Bridges , who were accused of robbing millions of dollars worth of Silk Road , This site was one of the largest black drug markets in the so-called "dark internet".
The trails at Abu Dhabi's luxury hotel
The FBI had closely watched 38-year-old Russian at least over a year ago, as its papers refer to May 2016 as a luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, as it traced its digital footprints through a WebMoney account.
He denies the accusations
Today, in front of the prosecutor in Thessaloniki, 38-year-old Russian denies any interference with the accusations attributed to him by the US authorities, and he said he was amazed at his arrest. The Appeals Council is expected to meet in the coming time, which is required to give its opinion on the request for extradition to the United States, and then the final decision will be taken by the Minister for Justice. The maximum period of detention by the Greek authorities may not exceed two months.
Are we all going to die??
Depens how long the deep free fall is!
Did everyone just miss this bit ?? -
The trial of MT's CEO recently kicked off in Tokyo. Gox Mark Karpelès , who accused the hackers of the 850,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 500 million, lost in 2014. According to documents that reached 306,853 bitcoins stolen after the attack on Mt. Gox entered the BTC-e purses. According to the same documents another part of the stolen from the attack on Mt. Gox arrived at a San Francisco exchange office.
What's that supposed to mean? Sooner or later every bitcoin (stolen or not) will "enter" some exchange. That doesn't mean that the person that sends it to the exchange is the thief!
Fair point but the powers that be like to spin it as facilitating money laundering. ie the exchange is providing a platform for the sale of stolen goods (btc)
I know its bullshit but try telling the fbi that when they come a knocking.
Poloniex
Wait for the shit storm..
Time to go, show over.
BTC-e is gone for ever.
Sorry for the people who lost their money on btc-e..
Update2: At the moment, work is underway to restore the service. Approximate terms from 5 to 10 days. Thank you for understanding #btce
They think users are stupid or something???
They ignore us, why dont just say everything have been quarantined by FBI!
In the light of the recent exchange drama, did Bitfinex in the end resolve it's banking issues (deposit/withdraw USD)?
NO! I cannot wire Fiat money.
So we are basically fucked now..
There are a lot of different perspectives out there. All we can do is hope for the best in all of this.
Owner Of Russia's Largest BTC Exchange Arrested – Money May Be Lost"... According to the latest report, Bits.media received information from the administrator of the qugla.com service, which conducted the marketing campaign of Humaniq, saying that Alexander Vinnik is indeed one of the owners and administrators of BTC-e.
He stated, that another administrator of BTC-e probably has access to the exchange, and now, most likely tries to solve the situation. He also stated that the future of BTC-e exchange is uncertain and
user funds may be never returned. He continued..."
Source:
https://coinidol.com/owner-of-btc-e-arrested/Tears coming.. Big ones..
“Forecasts are disappointing. If within 48 hours the situation is not resolved in a positive way, with a high degree of probability you can forget about the money.”
Btc-e leftover admin already stated 5-10 days..
Leftover admins have no acces to btc-e wallets!
We are going to see dip bigger than ever.. 700-1200 USD
We are going to see dip bigger than ever.. 700-1200 USD
So, don't wait! Sell your bitcoins at current rate! I'll buy all of them. if you have any bitcoins, of course?
You are not worth to waste my time telling you that tanking dips is stupid FUD.
Get all in like real trader.
I sold again, at 2740, sold all.
I sold again, at 2740, sold all.
Yep, I knew you don't have any bitcoins. Tomorrow when price is higher than that you'll stop posting here or you'll change your nickname.
What is the problem with you?
My balance is not your business.
Yes, my fiat is standing by at bitstamp.
I bet you have no coins if you are acting like this, or you just lost all at btc-e
Quite high, is time for another dip?
Gold times for shorter.
Always a great time for your shorts right? Right??? lol
LOL? Teenager there?
We just had 2800/2400/2800.
Tell me that you did not short?
Now you are angry?
Buy support at stamp is currently low.
Pressure to move back to 2500 USD is extreme.
If 2700 fails, next stop is at 24/2500 range.
$1m buy wall at 0.1BTC on viabtc BTC/BCC.
Someone wants to stop it going to zero, at least until the fork.
that would be Rodger's bid
It seems that i have no time to dump my upcoming Bitcoin Crash Coins?
There was just insane hashrate boost for clearing mempool.
BCC cant fork when miners do that.
4 BTC blocks just in 4 minutes!!!
5 in 10 minutes!
No sign of the first block is there? just another day in paradise.....
Coin dance says no block yet....
The block might not even come today due to the low hashrate on the Cash network. Sure, they change difficulty downwards, but I think it'll be a while until they get anything.
Regardless of their hashrate, every block mined since the fork point has been <700KB in size, and their 1st block after the split MUST be >1MB by their own rules. It could be a while even if they have plenty of hash power.
But both are two different chains by now so even if there's not enough transactions in Bitcoin, people wanting to move their BCH would probably amount to much more than 1MB in BCH chain.
BCH Mempool is 1.6Mbytes, so it's over the 1M threshold to trigger the fork when the block is found.
THE FUN PART:
Bcc forked at wrong block. No full mempool.
That means their code is faulty and will continue to fork
or they did some offline trick to make "orphan" to continue their own chain.
Trick or fail, that can be only solved after their first block.
Anyone fast geek to test this.
Use full BTC chain with BCC client.
Will BCC catch the chain?
Possible bug that BCC will accept BTC chain upto this point via this trick?
Did not look the source:
Possible that stupid chinese have only blocked core version after timestamp???
Troll, zero volume
Some one used 50 cents to get the chart up..
only fools probably
I cant wait for first bcc blocks to see how many coins are moving to exchanges for dumping
first:
Output total 28,128.21194190 BTC
BTC going up while guys looking at altcoin..
faulty code
Hmm funny I did some experiments with that Bitcoin Clash Daemon but it seems the oversize Block doesn't get accepted on the abc daemon as well...
2017-08-01 18:29:27 ERROR: TestBlockValidity: Consensus::CheckBlock: bad-txns-oversize, Coinbase check failed (txid 1f5132b4722a9dec48092f6b9490594df3676cd0c6322f6ceb0c1812cbb851b2) (code 16)
Who's coding that thing ? Roger himself ?
Saw this on another thread:
BCH Mempool is 1.6Mbytes, so it's over the 1M threshold to trigger the fork when the block is found.
THE FUN PART:
Bcc forked at wrong block. No full mempool.
That means their code is faulty and will continue to fork
or they did some offline trick to make "orphan" to continue their own chain.
Trick or fail, that can be only solved after their first block.
Is that true?
