Quote from: examplens on May 12, 2025, 07:33:52 PM

If I understand correctly, eXch had its own nodes for each coin they had listed on their platform. Full nodes on BTC, ETH, LTC, and Dash are certainly in TB-sized.

That seems a reasonable assumption. Running full nodes for that many coins will occupy space in several TB (but nowhere near as much as they claim to have recovered).

Quote from: Cricktor on May 12, 2025, 11:16:24 PM

The authorities can say anything and certainly want to make it look good what they've done in the press release. Big round of shoulder patting... Much heroes, so wow... Big yawn! Not impressed.

Quote from: NotATether on May 13, 2025, 04:09:35 AM

A full Ethereum archival node running the go-ethereum software that eXch was known to compile from source in the past, requires at least 12 TB.

https://geth.ethereum.org/docs/getting-started/hardware-requirements

However, if the full archival state is not stored, it could be under 2 terabytes.

The Bitcoin node requires about 600GB. Monero 100GB. Dash and Litecoin's blockchain size is negligible. However, Lightning network takes up a couple more hundreds of GB of space, depending on the client. If you also include the programs that eXch use like Thorchain for isntance, those uses several hundred gigabytes in total as well. We do not know exactly what software was eXch running on the server but it's highly likely that the nodes accounted for the bulk of the storage space.

Logs are not terabytes large. At most, hundreds of megabytes typically.

If they had foresight, they would have encrypted the hard disk with LUKS beforehand. Hopefully, they did that.

We will probably find out about this in the coming days. Exactly what was recovered still remains a mystery.

Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on Today at 09:15:50 AM

However, considering that eXch shut down their services, I am wondering if the anti phishing campaign is still running, from their perspective. Perhaps OP can tell us what's their position about this...? Will the rewards be given for the websites which were taken down just before they shut down

According to a recent report, German authorities raided and shut down eXch two days before their unilateral decision to voluntarily close their business down. The OP has not been online since 6th May therefore it seems reasonable to assume they will not be back and as a result subsequent payments will probably not be made.