I began to realize this when the Bitfloor exchange, which had around 50% of my Bitcoins shut down. Roman Stylman promised to return funds to customers, and although the incompetent manner in which refunds were handled was frustrating I was confident I would see my money. Finally, late last year when I had almost given up, I received an email asking me to send my identity details before the end of the month so that my withdrawal could be processed. I did as requested within a few days.
Would you be surprised to hear that I haven't seen a penny? My Bitfloor account still shows the same balance as before (which is supposed to show $0 when the refund is processed). It's been months. I've tried emailing Bitfloor, Twittering Bitfloor, and Twittering Stylman's private account. I haven't heard a peep out of him.
He's clearly not dead; he posts too often about vacations and how much he's enjoying his free time for that. Being dead is the only excuse for ignoring me an people like me.
He has funds that were entrusted to him in his possession and does nothing to see to their return. Roman Stylman should be working tirelessly to return the money that is not his to keep. Roman Stylman thinks he is above answering emails, that Bitfloor is over, and he has no duty to fix what he broke. Roman Styleman has better things to do. Roman Styleman is a crook.
Checks totaling a large amount of USD for bitfloor customers were deposited at IAFCU last summer. A significant portion of these funds have been returned to their rightful owners. I am one of the people who did receive a refund. I believe the intent was to return all the funds. I think it is reasonable for you to email IAFCU and see if you have unclaimed funds there. I do not think there is any point to contact Roman at this time.
The effort to identify a cooperating bank, and to do a lot of the legwork to perfect the refunds was done by AudenX <
reddit@audenx.com> The last email I received from him to the list is dated 2013-09-25. At that time, he reported that success reports were still trickling in. He is doing a lot of work on a volunteer basis to help resolve this difficulty. You may wish to send him a status email. If possible, I would include that dates and descriptions of actions that you have taken.
As you very well know, Roman has no intent of returning all the funds involved in Bitfloor. He has managed to do enough to avoid prosecution, but that is all (and that might be optimistic, New York state is very busy in this area).