Quote from: BlockChains on July 29, 2017, 04:21:39 AM

Quote from: NootropicPlace on July 29, 2017, 03:48:10 AM

What reasons do you have for such little hope?

@bonker, good points.

Look at the aftermath of liberty reserve in its shutdown. The USGov painted all the users there with the same broad brush and nobody got their money back. Look into the precedent set by "civil asset forfeiture" in the US where cops routinely seize cash from drivers and the IRS routinely seizes the entire bank accounts of legitimate businesses just because they "deposit cash too frequently." Many of those instances of drivers and businesses are quite obviously legitimate but they don't care and like stealing money because they CAN and the precedents set on the rule of law have changed far, far away from the idea of "nobody can be deprived of property without due process."

What's shocking about this particular case is the breadth of the application against so many international citizens instead of just within their own borders. I don't think the media will ever report the truth of this and only support the official narrative that the place was a den of criminals, because the scale of this, and its implications, are astounding.

Are you sure noone got thier money back? I just read this. Obviously wiki sites are not always accurate but still its possible.

"The head of EPay Tarjeta, a service which used Liberty Reserve, remarked "We seem to be acceptable collateral damage ... we have committed no crime."

"United States attorney Preet Bharara stated users of Liberty Reserve could contact his office to inquire about getting their funds returned.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve

Maybe some light at the end of the tunnel??