If BTC-e tries to refund customers it will be using crypto after socializing losses.
I'm not sure that socializing the losses is a smart move.
Innocent users will compensate the balances of "drug dealers and other illicit users" that originate the problem itself.
You will use part of your money, to compensate illicit traders that cost you the money you lost.
Obviusly, we cannot. But maybe BTC-e itself can, who knows.
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The USA and the FBI did this already. They say, btce and everybody related to it is a criminal. btce's trollbox was the communication back end of the Medllin Cartel and Pablo's ghost was seen there many times.
I actually read all the indictment pdf... and no, accusations were not directed to all users no matter what
That's one of the reasons I hope that, with time, honest traders can also recover sized money from Feds.
LibertyReserve had a program to recover seized balances, if you can prove they were legit.
(do not know how it went)