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Board Scam Accusations
Re: C-Cex Has Frozen Your BTC! Not to be Trusted
by
xorpheus
on 25/02/2014, 10:30:27 UTC
Can someone please explain why my BTC has been frozen.  All I did was deposit 30.56999433 DRK and trade it for 0.06266757 BTC.   How is it that my BTC is held?  

Why would many suffer for the acts of one?

C-CEX has not responded to my email or Skype chat.

I see it like this...

Due to a bug in code on the c-cex exchange, someone found their account with a ton more bitcoin in it than there should be.  That user then made a conscious decision to trade the bitcoin which was not rightfully theirs.  Everyone on the other side of those trades were technically receiving stolen property.  The non-existent bitcoin (it's just a virtual exchange balance remember, not an actual bitcoin wallet) was converted into darkcoin by trading on the exchange, effectively transferring the non-existent bitcoin into other traders accounts.  The dirty darkcoin was then laundered (or tried to be) by trading for bitcoin on poloniex.

It seems both c-cex and the user who was consciously involved in this are making a great effort to retrieve lost funds.  Problem is, due to the trading at great loss, a large chunk of this bitcoin that never existed in the first place is now in the hands of everyone with whom they traded.  This is why your bitcoin balance at c-cex is frozen.

If authorities were involved, the accounts at poloniex would likely also be frozen during the investigation period.  If this were a bank error of similar scale which was deliberately taken advantage of, the person involved could end up with a prison sentence.