So what is all this 55% talk? Did they get hacked or were their funds seized? I was assuming it was a seizure in which only funds associated with criminal activity should have been impacted.
Myself, and I am sure many other users were not involved in any criminal activity and only had some funds there to trade. So why are we only getting 55% of our funds back? Are we socializing the criminal losses, did the government or whoever simply take 45% across the board? If the later is the case, I think we should have the option to go after 100% of our funds since our coins were not the property of BTC-e, they were simply the custodian. Too many questions seem to be left unanswered for everyone to be simply going oh-well at least they are back.
We don't know anything for certain
It is obvious that the FBI could easily find dollars no matter how many proxies the exchange might have used, but I don't really think that the dollars seized make up 30% or more of the Btc-e fiat reserves. It looks more like that some ruble accounts got voluntarily frozen by some of the exchange proxies that turned out to be rogue, and the funds might eventually get unlocked once the dust settles and the exchange asks the money to be returned (which is likely what already happened). There were rumors but as I said these could just be that, i.e. just rumors. Anyway, now the exchange owners can start talking to the FBI and probably take the case to the court as well as demand returning the seized funds whatever those might amount to in the court. Things could start to look grim for Uncle Sam at last, and that would be good for the whole industry