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>Although I don't understand the US's involvement in this -- a man breaking the rules is being put to justice, and I'm very glad.

This is a terrifying comment.

Not much different than a Thai person saying the same about a German rotting in their jail because he offended their king on Twitter. "Justice!"




> Not much different than a Thai person saying the same about a German rotting in their jail because he offended their king on Twitter. "Justice!"

I agree. Good luck trying to explain that to idiots like mikeyouse (commented just before me) who miss the point entirely lol.


Because insulting someone and stealing millions of dollars are equal somehow?


Whose money did BTC-e steal?


I suppose you're not very familiar with BTC-e. It had a reputation of taking funds from users -- there was nothing effectively stopping them (until now) from locking users out of their accounts randomly, or disappearing user's funds.


>I suppose you're not very familiar with BTC-e.

There's probably 5 or less people more familiar with BTC-e than I am.

>It had a reputation of taking funds from users

Compared to the other big exchanges they've mostly had a reputation of not doing that.

Essentially all the people I can find complaining about suspended BTC-e accounts got shut down due to inconsistencies in their incoming wires.

I'm looking at BTC-e user database right now, only 0.2857% of the users are banned. Much fewer than you'd see at any other exchange, but I suppose that's not a very meaningful metric given the ease of registrations.




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