Quote from: BitcoinTraveler on July 26, 2017, 05:32:04 PM

Quote from: Zorgunfleck on July 26, 2017, 05:28:41 PM

Quote from: stompix on July 26, 2017, 04:33:12 PM

Quote from: Zorgunfleck on July 26, 2017, 04:27:45 PM

I know there are apparently people who specialize in recovering lost wallets and tracking tumbled funds on the blockchain. There must be more people like me who had a lot, but not most of our money on BTC-e. Perhaps we can discuss how we might go about hiring people who might be able to help us. There must be people more knowledgeable than I am about this stuff out there who could at least help investigate where the money is and possibly who has control of it. I just happen to have a screen shot of my finances right before it shut down. People probably still have cookies on their computers from the last time they looked at their finance pages in case the user info can't be recovered.

Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but if anyone has any ideas, lets start brainstorming together.

Those money are gone. Bye!
You can brainstorm whatever you want how long you want you won't be able to get a satoshi.
It's either that his friends emptied the vault or the fed will get those coins.

Bitcoins aren't really very anonymous, you can make it time consuming to track you by tumbling, but not impossible if someone has the incentive to do so. I imagine it will be very hard for anyone to actually use those bitcoins without their identity being revealed at some point. At which point they will most assuredly be tortured by hired men to hand over their crypto. Whoever stole the money just made thousands of enemies, many of whom still have significant amounts of money and know how to access the dark web.

If they Fed's have it, that could be a different story, but if that's the case, why did someone take the time to replace the cloudflare page with an official looking "Down for maintenance" page? If they FBI took it down, they usually like to brag about it.

I think you're right. If the US government got its hands on the site then we'd see a placholder page something like this:

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-055225b0df262b4fc2d51f21a577e1a2

That is only after court orders..

BTC-e admins are aware of what we write about site has been busted.
They do not tell otherwise, use the fucking twitter to calm down people?
Why not?
Because they cant!