Big gap opening up on dodgy dealings that is BTC-e.
What irony [insert gif here]
Maybe BTC-e is becoming our new price leader?
Although they have been up for several weeks - even when BTC prices were going down.
I doubt BTC-e's higher prices and widening gap should imply any kind of "dodgy dealings" necessarily.
Their actual anonymity and difficulties in transferring cash in and out of there has always caused them to perform a bit different from some of the other exchanges that are more KYC and AML compliant. No?
Is there any other evidence of "dodgy dealings," besides a ongoing and increasing price gap?
BTC-e has always been one of the lower volume exchanges and it never needed much money to create a wide gap with the high volume exchanges. Today its had $ 2,207,640 of bitcoins traded which puts it slightly below Bitstamp in volume. That's not evidence of "dodgy dealings" but it's highly unusual for BTC-e to have that much volume. The order books still look fairly thin, so if someone with money wants to buy a big number of bitcoins there it will make an ongoing and increasing price gap.