Thanks to a publication by @niceviewsua ( Thanks man ) I learned a moment ago of the latest news on the exchange BTC-e. We all know about the recent news of the arrest of one of the alleged bosses of BTC-e and all the research on the relationship of this exchange with the hack to MTGox, through "money laundering" and more.

As the exchange has today issued a statement that apart from clarifying that all servers and domain have been confiscated by the FBI and part of his team arrested, they say they will return all funds to their owners which is a relief to many users. This exchange is one of the oldest that still exists and so far never had any problems. At least I have never read a single complaint about BTC-e in an online forum. I used it a lot in a moment, at the beginning, and I knew of its good operation and reliability until now.

Which brings me to the last statement of the exchange.

• Arrest of the Russian Alexander Vinnik:
  Officially declare - Alexander was never the head or employee of our service.

They officially declare that the Russian detained by the FBI, the only official reason to confiscate all their servers and domain, apart from arresting part of their team, has no relation to them. This has made me think a little.

Already, they have received a fine of 110 million dollars from the United States Department of Justice because ...

BTC-e .. was heavily reliant on criminals, including by not requiring users to validate their identity, obscuring and anonymizing transactions and source of funds, and by lacking any anti-money laundering processes. The indictment alleges BTC-e was operated to facilitate transactions for cybercriminals worldwide and received the criminal proceeds of numerous computer intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, and narcotics distribution rings.
Instead of acting to prevent money laundering, BTC-e and its operators embraced the pervasive criminal activity conducted at the exchange. Users openly and explicitly discussed criminal activity on BTC-e’s user chat.

By the way BTC-e in his statement call Vinnyk Alexandra only "Alexander" makes me think that maybe they knew him somehow. But hey, this can also be a way of referring to someone.

This would be for the part of BTC-e. Now, when the DOJ makes his statement, what he has in hand are allegations, there is no evidence that BTC-e has done all that ...

The indictment alleges BTC-e was ...

The description in that statement of what BTC-e is supposed to have done are the worst things an exchange can do, looking at it from a legal and social point of view. To me it seems more a list of warnings with a final punishment "for having misbehaved".

Could it be that BTC-e is only being used as an example for the other exchanges?

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No matter how old or reliable you are to your users, if you do not comply with the rules we put you, we will knock you down. And especially now with the news of the new statements of the SEC on ICOs. More pressure, more fear and more control on the part of the United States government. And the worst of all is that it is not only there in its territory but throughout the world. BTC-e was based in Russia and look what happened.

In the end, I do not know if we will ever know what it has really happened with MtGox (remember that the main suspect pleaded not guilty), with BTC-e or with the Russian Alexander Vinnik but what if it is sure right now is what I said earlier . The US government has more control over the world of crypto-currency online exchanges and its users. And we need more decentralized online exchanges :)

What do you think of all this?

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