Is BTC-e down?
It all started with the tweet in Russian where the site tweeted “Due to the data center of btc-e may be temporarily unavailable #btce”. Its been 19 hours now that the site is still down. Going by the earlier instances its not new, they have been down for scheduled maintenance.
Is the BTC-e refund site up?
Hi based on the below link the BTC-e refund site is up and BTC-e is claiming to provide refund with the below two options: OPTION #1 — — Take 55% now. This is all you get. You give up the right to the other 45%
What is going on with BTC-e?
The US Justice Dept attempted to close down BTC-e on the 26th of July 2017 when they charged Vinnik and BTC-e in a 21-count indictment for operating an alleged international money laundering scheme and allegedly laundering funds from the hack of Mt. Gox.
What happened to the BTC-e domain name?
On 28 July 2017, US authorities seized the BTC-e.com domain name and 38% of all customer funds. To repay its customers BTC-e created WEX tokens, which were used to represent customers’ seized equity. The WEX tokens represented $1 and were issued to account for the value of customers cryptocurrencies at the time of the theft.