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Do they? Who are the Russian authorities and regulators going to catch? The owners are anonymous. Where is the business permit of BTCe? Where are their servers located? It is run in the spirit of Bitcoin and no, Kraken is not better and will never be better than BTCe. Period.
they are shamelessly admitting that they will release information of their users to any authority that asks: "if and when it is requested by government agencies that . BTC-e disclose information relating to user activity and/or contact information we will comply."
~As far as I know its servers are physically located in Bulgaria ~
LOL, if it was that easy to find out where they are really located it wouldn't have been based on their servers, instead based on their registered company which is in London. they have another managing company in Cyprus! and they have banks in Russia, and many other places.
How do you know that *they* have accounts in Russian banks?
I mean how do you know that these accounts are actually registered for the legal entity behind btc-e? I just quickly went through the exchange site itself, and I didn't find any mention of this entity at all! But maybe, I missed it. Anyway, since there are many options for withdrawing rubles which obviously involve bank transfers (e.g. withdrawals to Russian banks such as Alfa Bank, Tinkoff Bank, Russian Standard Bank), they do have accounts opened in these banks but who is behind these accounts remains largely unknown. Maybe, Putin is behind btc-e
one of their accounts are in Cбepбaнкa Poccии which is an state owned bank in Moscow. and when you have such an account you no longer are unknown entity.
but anyways, i am not here to defend btc-e or bash it. i have been using it and it has the same risks as any other exchange out there.
what the hell are you talking about? imprisonment? since when running a bitcoin exchange has been illegal?