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Bitcoin Site Fined $110 Million for Money Laundering, Owner Arrested for Hacking

One of the oldest digital currency exchanges, known as BTC-e, remained off-line following a one-two punch by law enforcement over a series of allegedly criminal acts by the site and its owner.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a $110 million fine against BTC-e for facilitating crimes like drug sales and ransomware attacks along with a separate $12 million fine against its owner, Alexander Vinnik.

BTC-e is headquartered in Russia and has long served as a forum where users can exchange traditional currencies for bitcoin or other digital monies like Ethereum or Dash.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department also filed a series of criminal charges, including conspiracy and money laundering, against Vinnik after snatching him up in Greece.

The agencies claim BTC-e, which was founded in 2011, blatantly ignored “know your customer” laws in order to cater to a criminal customer base, and even hosted message boards buzzing with illegal activities. According to a Justice Department press release:

BTC-e .. was heavily reliant on criminals, including by not requiring users to validate their identity, obscuring and anonymizing transactions and source of funds, and by lacking any anti-money laundering processes. The indictment alleges BTC-e was operated to facilitate transactions for cybercriminals worldwide and received the criminal proceeds of numerous computer intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, and narcotics distribution rings.

Instead of acting to prevent money laundering, BTC-e and its operators embraced the pervasive criminal activity conducted at the exchange. Users openly and explicitly discussed criminal activity on BTC-e’s user chat. [my emphasis]

The charges against Vinnik also accuse him of helping to orchestrate the hack of Mt. Gox, which was once the most popular digital currency exchange, but shut down in 2014 following a after a massive series of mysterious robberies.

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Wednesday’s news comes as a reminder that, even as mainstream investors like hedge funds and venture capitalists rush to acquire digital currencies, many of the currencies’ core users are still criminal networks.

As for BTC-e, a message from its Twitter account says the site will be down for five to 10 days, though many on social media are speculating its gone for good.

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Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e Promises 'Daily' Updates During Relaunch Attempt

Bitcoin exchange BTC-e is planning to release more updates about its recovery efforts weeks after a stunning crackdown by US authorities.

As previously reported by CoinDesk, BTC-e was the target of a law enforcement operation in late July, during which one of its alleged operators was arrested in Greece. US authorities later seized BTC-e's Web domain and unsealed a 21-count indictment, accusing Russian national Alexander Vinnik and BTC-e of facilitating the laundering of billions of dollars via bitcoin, along with a $110 million fine.

Yet days after the arrest, a forum account long associated with BTC-e posted a pledge to relaunch the exchange, promising to return funds to those who were held accounts at the time of the shutdown. BTC-e has since announced it plans to issue a debt token as part of that repayment effort.

Now, according to new update posted on Bitcoin Talk, BTC-e is in the process of "transferring digital resources to an investment company" that will support the planned exchange relaunch.

In a translated statement, BTC-e reiterated its promise that users "will be able to withdraw 55% of the funds" when the exchange is brought online. BTC-e indicated that it would move to publish more frequent updates after August 31, with the next update expected on August 30.

The account also answered a number of queries, perhaps most notably to one about the legal effort launched by US prosecutors.

"At the moment, we have not received official documents from the United States. All that is at the moment is an order," it stated.

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Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e Back Online After Reported DDoS

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Bitcoin exchange BTC-e was offline for several hours today after the site said that it was the target of a distributed denial-of service attack.

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BTC-e Empowers Veteran Investors with Advanced PAMM Trading Account

Jun 25, 2014 at 19:51 | Pete Rizzo

BTC-e has launched new PAMM accounts to allow for more sophisticated trading on its platform.

BTC-e MetaTrader Now Offers Multi-Currency Accounts

Jun 2, 2014 at 09:33 | Jon Southurst

Traders using the popular platform may now hold accounts in any or all of the seven most popular currencies.

BTC-e Back Online Following DDoS Attack

The exchange was down briefly on Sunday, following a powerful distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against its servers.

BTC-e Now Offers Trading in Chinese Yuan

Mar 31, 2014 at 06:38 | Jon Southurst

In a surprising move, major digital currency exchange BTC-e announced today it would begin trading in Chinese offshore yuan.

BTC-e Enables Fund Withdrawals Using MasterCard and Visa Cards

Mar 21, 2014 at 16:41 | Pete Rizzo

The new program will allow customers to send money to debit and select credit cards issued internationally.

Bitcoin Prices Rise 15% to Reach Post Mt. Gox Crisis High

Mar 3, 2014 at 21:22 | Pete Rizzo

Bitcoin prices were the highest observed since the resignation of Mt. Gox CEO from the Bitcoin Foundation on Monday.

BTC-e Cuts Withdrawal Fees in Customer Satisfaction Bid

Feb 28, 2014 at 18:01 | Pete Rizzo

The notoriously secretive exchange is gaining traction as a market leader following Mt. Gox's closure.

Bitstamp to Resume Bitcoin Withdrawals Today

Feb 14, 2014 at 10:55 | Emily Spaven

Following the DDoS attack, Bitstamp has revealed plans to start processing its customers' bitcoin withdrawals again later today.

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Bitcoin Miners Unaffected by Price Decline — Hashrates Spiked Exponentially

Despite the multitude of headlines declaring that bitcoin mining was becoming unprofitable over the last four months, the hashrate between both Bitcoin Core (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) networks has exploded. At the moment both SHA-256 proof-of-work (POW) powered protocols have been maintaining more than 35 exahash per second, becoming one of the most powerful computational systems in the world.

BTC Mining Hashrate Unphazed by ‘Crypto Winter’

There has been a massive decline in fiat value for nearly all cryptocurrencies represented within the digital asset universe during the 2018 ‘Crypto Winter.’ During this time, researchers and pundits have declared that when BTC/USD prices dipped below $8K, mining was allegedly unprofitable in some regions. However, as far as blockchain data is concerned mining has grown exponentially even during the last four months when BTC prices found new lows. This year pools such as BTC.com, Antpool, Slush, and Viabtc have increased their hashrates considerably. A factor possibly due to new semiconductors and innovations in mining technology.

Today the BTC global hashrate is 30 exahash per second. Over the last four months even when the price declined hashrate increased.

Over the last seven days, BTC miners have held a fairly consistent 30 exahash per second. From December 2017 up until April 2018, the BTC chain’s hashrate has increased significantly . According to estimates, Chinese mining pools make up most of the BTC hashrate (80%) as eight of the top ten pools are based in China.

Chinese mining pools make up more than 80 percent of the BTC global hashrate.

The top five pools command close to 75 percent of the global BTC hashrate with BTC.com taking the cream of the crop. BTC.com now captures 28.9 percent of the BTC hashrate today, with Antpool’s 15.2 percent following behind. There are a total of seventeen known mining pools pointing their resources at the BTC chain and one unknown operation controls 10 percent of the network.

Bitcoin Cash Hashrate Explodes

The Bitcoin Cash network has also increased its hashrate significantly as well, as BCH miners are now processing between 3.6-5 exahash per second . Just a few months ago the BCH hashrate was between 0.5-1 exahash per second. At the time of writing due to the 60 percent bitcoin cash price increase, it is 1.7 percent more profitable to mine BCH than to mine on the BTC chain. Presently the Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm (DAA) is operating at 14.8 percent of BTC’s difficulty. March and the month of April were the biggest hashrate spikes for BCH since the DAA was fixed last November.

A side-by-side chart of BTC and BCH hashrates. BCH is represented in purple while the orange trendline is BTC.

BCH has roughly thirteen known mining pools and 2-3 unknown mining operations pointing their resources at the chain. The biggest BCH mining pools over the last seven days include BTC.top, Viabtc, BTC.com, Antpool, and Bitcoin.com. Over the last week, the 2-3 unknown mining pools have captured 31 percent of the BCH network hashrate. Roughly 60 percent of the BCH global hashrate stems from China, as bitcoin cash has a more diversified spectrum of countries within its hashrate distribution.

Bitcoin Cash mining pool hashrate distribution over the last seven days and 24-hours.

The Entire Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Has Seen Hashrates Spike

Overall there is a lot of computational power directed at both of these two networks, and they eclipse the entire landscape of 1500+ other digital asset hashrates. Although the processing power for those cryptocurrencies has increased as well over the last four months. Since January 2018 until now, the Ethereum network’s hashrate has grown immensely during the ‘Crypto Winter.’

Nearly every PoW cryptocurrency’s hashrate has spiked over the past four months.

The same thing for the Litecoin network, as its hashrate has exploded during its 4-month price downswing. This trend has taken place across nearly every single cryptocurrency that uses a POW-type of consensus algorithm. Most all of the cryptocurrency hashrates worldwide have spiked considerably this past January through April 23, 2018. It’s safe to say all these theories of miners shutting down machines soon, and ‘losing their shirts’ are pretty far fetched.

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2 Million Revolut Customers Get More Cryptocurrency Access

In the heady days of 2017, Revolut Ltd promised it would continue to add cryptocurrency choices for its customer base. The future promise was made after its rollout of onboarding bitcoin core (BTC), litecoin (LTC), and ether (ETH) to eager users. Just this week, the England-based company made good by further adding bitcoin cash (BCH) and ripple (XRP).

Revolut Adds Bitcoin Cash and Ripple to its Crypto Offerings

In a series of questions and answers format for their unconventional press release this week, the company asked itself “Why did you only add XRP and BCH?” The answer was “Simple – these were the two most popular cryptocurrencies our community wanted, so we rolled up our sleeves and made it happen.” They went on to stress how they’re looking to do even more crypto-related service in the future, asking customers “make some noise and let us know what you want us to add next. We’ll take care of the rest.”

London’s Revolut kept its promise. Following eager anticipation of its initial embrace of three cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, LTC), and successful implementation, the skyrocketing financial technology company announced this week it is now implementing bitcoin cash (BCH) and ripple (XRP) to its basket of cryptos.

The three year old digital bank has a popular prepaid debit card, peer-to-peer payments platform, and both currency and cryptocurrency exchanges for its two million customers. To stay competitive, Revolut operates a loss leader fee structure for many of its services (free). Its proprietary application allows fiat-to-crypto in over two dozen government currencies, serving over 100 countries worldwide. The company’s backend transactions are managed by crypto exchange heavy Bitstamp.

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“With hundreds of thousands of customers now actively exchanging cryptocurrencies in the app,” Revolut explained in a cheeky announcement, “the popular view was that we needed to add more digital currencies in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether. After months of debate and hard work, we’re extremely proud to welcome XRP and BCH to the Revolut app, which means you can now instantly exchange any of our 25 supported fiat currencies directly into XRP and BCH.”

And even though many establishments balk at direct crypto commerce and trade, Revolut customers will be able to use either their Mastercard or Visa regardless. Revolut does all the conversions instantly which could go a long way in enabling the currency aspect of cryptocurrency. Premium customers are provided a concierge-like service along with 1% crypto cashbacks.

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I also had At&t try to help me because I have UVERSE for my internet service. My internet was working perfectly. Their Technical Support team member checked the Yahoo Search App and it wouldn't work for him either.

We can go to www.yahoo.com and search for any topic or website. It's just the Yahoo Search App that won't allow anyone to do web searches at all.

I let Google know that the Yahoo Search App installed from their Google Play Store had completely stopped working on May 18, 2018.

I told them that Yahoo has made sure that their Yahoo members can't contact them about anything.

I noticed that right after I accepted the agreement that said Oath had joined with Verizon I started having the problem with the Yahoo Search App.
No matter what I search for or website thru the Yahoo Search App it says the following after I searched for
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I tried to search for things like www.homedepot.com. The same thing happened. It would say WEBPAGE NOT AVAILABLE. The only thing that changed were all the upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
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Yahoo needs to fix the problem with their app.

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MtGox, BTC-e, and the Missing Coins: A living timeline of the greatest cyber crime ever

This time a year ago, one might have been forgiven for thinking that Bitcoin had exhausted its fair share of newsworthy scandals. But the past several months have proven that this technology, although no longer nascent, shows no signs of becoming boring any time soon.

With the recent hardfork and the creation of the first alt-bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the news of developments in the MtGox saga late last month was relegated to the status of mere background noise among media outlets covering the crypto space. This is understandable, given that increasingly few players in today’s crypto ecosystem have been around long enough to remember the theft, or to have been affected by it. However, for those who have been following Bitcoin since the earlier days, any progress in solving the mystery of the MtGox heist is still considered big news.

In light of recent events, namely the arrest of alleged MtGox thief Alexander Vinnik and the shutdown of BTC-e, a recap of the now-defunct MtGox exchange’s ever-developing timeline is in order.

January 2007 — With the intention of building a website where Magic: The Gatheringplayers could trade digital cards like stocks, software developer Jed McCaleb purchased the domain mtgox.com (Magic The Gathering Online eXchange). The site was live for around 3 months in late 2007 before McCaleb decided it was not worth his time to continue hosting.

18 July 2010 — Upon learning about Bitcoin, McCaleb wrote an exchange website and launched it on the dormant mtgox.com domain name.

March 2011 — Unable to dedicate his time fully to the site, McCaleb sold MtGox to Mark Karpelès, a French software developer based in Japan.

19 June 2011 — MtGox experienced a security breach as a result of an auditor’s computer being compromised, allowing a hacker to steal a large number of bitcoins. The hacker immediately sold these coins, causing Bitcoin’s nominal price to drop to one cent on the MtGox exchange (although the price corrected within minutes). This was one of the first indications of the incompetency of MtGox’s security.

September 2011 — Unbeknownst to the exchange or its users at the time, the private keys for the MtGox hot wallet were stolen via a copied wallet.dat file. This allowed the hacker to immediately access the coins in the compromised wallets, and also to spend any bitcoins deposited into these addresses over time.

2012 and 2013 — Over several years, the hacker regularly emptied the coins from the compromised addresses into wallets controlled by an anonymous entity now alleged to be Alexander Vinnik. These withdrawals allegedly went unnoticed by the exchange, and by mid-2013, around 630,000 BTC had been siphoned out of MtGox in this manner. Additionally, a consequence of the dat file’s shared keypool was that addresses were reused, confusing the system into crediting user accounts with a total of over 40,000 BTC, most of which were quickly withdrawn by users and never recovered. MtGox’s failure to notice these withdrawals and irregularities resulted in an increasingly large discrepancy between its expected BTC holdings and its actual holdings.

September-November 2013 — A bot, nicknamed Willy, began automatically purchasing bitcoins on the MtGox exchange at a rate of 10–20 BTC every 5–10 minutes. Noting that the related user accounts were active even during periods when the exchange was down, the Willy Report shed some light on these strange trades, suggesting that there was some internal involvement. The report also identified another bot, Markus, which operated earlier in 2013. It is highly likely that Willy, which bought over 250,000 BTC over its few months of operation, was responsible for artificially inflating the price of Bitcoin in late 2013.

7 February 2014 — MtGox halted all BTC withdrawals from the exchange, citing a transaction malleability bug in the core Bitcoin software. When withdrawals had still not resumed after 2 weeks, users began to suspect that MtGox may not be able to pay its customers. This lack of confidence resulted in the price dropping to below 20% of that on other exchanges.

24 February 2014 — MtGox suspended all trading, then went offline completely, returning a blank page. News outlets reported on a leaked “crisis strategy draft” plan, which declared MtGox’s insolvency after losing 744,408 BTC of customer funds (valued at over $2 billion USD at today’s prices) as well as 100,000 of its own bitcoins.

28 February 2014 — Blaming hackers and technical issues for the missing BTC, MtGox filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo, and in the US two weeks later, to halt legal action resulting from allegations of fraud.

20 March 2014 — In a statement on its website, MtGox reported that it had found 200,000 BTC in an old wallet, bringing the total number of missing bitcoins down to approximately 650,000 BTC.

19 April 2015 — WizSec, a group of individuals who have been investigating the MtGox mystery for several years, released a detailed analysis of their findings so far. This report cleared up a number of questions about the nature of the coins’ disappearance, but didn’t appear to provide any leads on a potential perpetrator.

1 August 2015 — Mark Karpelès was arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of having falsified data about MtGox’s outstanding balance on its computer system. He was later indicted for embezzlement and data manipulation, based on allegations of manually manipulating trades on MtGox prior to the activities of the Willy Bot.

July 2017 — Karpelès appeared in court to face the charges pressed against him in 2015. In an ongoing trial beginning on 11 July, he publicly admittedresponsibility for running Willy, but claimed the bot was established to save the company from insolvency rather than for his personal enrichment. Despite his suspicious activities, there is no solid evidence to suggest that Karpelès was responsible for (or intentionally complicit in) the theft of the 650,000 bitcoins.

25 July 2017 — BTC-e, a well-known Russian-based exchange with ties to illegal activities, announced via twitter that it was undertaking “unplanned maintenance” in its data center. Several subsequent tweets reiterated this as an explanation for the site being down. However, it was later revealed that FBI staff had raided the exchange’s data center and seized all of its equipment, servers (which held all databases) and purses. The site was shut down and the domain seized, marking the first time the US government has attacked a foreign exchange on foreign soil.

26 July 2017 — Alexander Vinnik, a 38-year-old Russian national, was arrested by US authorities in Greece and charged with 17 counts of money laundering and 2 counts of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions (which could see him facing up to 55 years in prison). Vinnik is alleged to have laundered $4 billion in cash through BTC-e since 2011, and users of the exchange quickly connected his identity with one of BTC-e’s leaders known as “Alexander”.

WizSec released a report stating that “Vinnik is [their] chief suspect for involvement in the MtGox theft (or the laundering of the proceeds thereof).” They had previously identified Vinnik as “WME”, the owner of the wallets into which the stolen MtGox bitcoins had been transferred. Approximately 300,000 of these coins were laundered or sold off on BTC-e, and some were moved straight into internal storage rather than customer deposit addresses, strengthening the claim that Vinnik is somehow involved with BTC-e.

Movement of missing MtGox bitcoins and other stolen coins (source)

The same investigation by WizSec revealed that these wallets controlled by Vinnik were also used to launder coins stolen from Bitcoinica, Bitfloor and several other exchanges in 2011 and 2012. WizSec concluded that Vinnik is responsible for, at the very least, laundering the missing MtGox coins. Whether or not he is responsible for the thefts themselves remains to be established.

As these developments unfolded, the US government unsealed a 21-count indictment against BTC-e and levied a $110 million USD fine against the exchange for its alleged violations. The allegations against BTC-e include that it functioned as a clearinghouse for funds sourced from “computer intrusions and hacking incidents, ransomware scams, identity theft schemes, corrupt public officials, and narcotics distribution rings.”

31 July 2017 — BTC-e published an update in Russian on the Bitcointalk forum, confirming that the FBI had indeed seized their equipment, and claiming that Vinnik was neither the head nor an employee of BTC-e at any time. It has also promised to restore customer funds if the exchange is not back up before the end of August, stating that it will “evaluate and publish information about how much money fell into the hands of the FBI and what amount of funds is available for return.” At this time, various users noted that large amounts of BTC and ETH have been transferred out of addresses believed to be owned by BTC-e, suggesting either that they have been seized by authorities or moved for safeguarding by the exchange.

4 August 2017 — In another post on the Bitcointalk forum, BTC-e stated: “We were able to access our databases and wallets, at the moment we are evaluating data and balances on [coins], this information will be made public by the end of next week.”

9 August 2017 — BTC-e revealed that it now controls only 55% of customer funds, with the remainder having been confiscated. The exchange plans to work with an unnamed group of investors to relaunch the site under a new name. Further, it plans to issue a new token (BTE) to cover the shortfall, which it will then buy back from the market over time (similar to the method used by Bitfinex after it was hacked in 2016).

14 August 2017 — BTC-e announced that its new token will in fact be called BTCT, and that the exchange will offer free trading of these tokens, allowing users to trade them “at any price, but no more than their face value.” The translated post elaborates: “For example, you had 1 BTC. You will receive 0.55 BTC and 0.45 BTCT. 0.55 BTC you can withdraw immediately. The remaining 0.45 BTCT you can either exchange for BTC at the market rate, or wait for their exchange at face value.”

As yet, the ultimate fate of the missing MtGox coins, and the extent of their connection to BTC-e and its leadership, remains unclear. However, for long-time followers of this mystery, a glimmer of hope is finally emerging as these previously unconnected threads begin to intertwine.