Quote from: countryfree on August 01, 2017, 09:51:28 AM

Quote from: Netnox on July 30, 2017, 11:57:49 AM

Quote from: aarons6 on July 30, 2017, 10:36:15 AM

i hate to say this and i hope im wrong but more than likely the remaining admin just moved all the coins to a wallet he controls so he can cash them out and move to some tropical beach somewhere in peace.

BTC-e had two owners. The first one was Alexander Vinnik, who is about to be deported to the United States, where he is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars. The second owner is another Russian guy called "Aleksey", who is in some country which is outside the US jurisdiction. He has taken control of all the coins and gone in to hiding. Now this may be a strategy to protect these coins from being confiscated by the authorities.

Thanks for info.

I knew the US had seized the www.btc-e.com domain name, and the website was probably hosted in the US, but BTC wallets are different matter. The question now is the following. Will that Aleksey guy try to fight the US government, protecting the assets of legitimate American clients, or will he simply disappear, keeping the coins all to himself.

who cares about that?

of course, BTC-e will take all the funds they have and disappear. i don't know why there is still a discussion about this thing.