BTC-e Missing Money: Millions of Maysus, Novosibirsk Power Engineers and Bits.media

Cryptocats, the other day, almost simultaneously, Lenta.ru and BBC published publications ascontinuation of the same article on RBC, in whichThe name of the oligarch Malofeev (also with a wiretap) and the name of the “kulkhatsker” Alexei Bilyuchenko, who is considered to be the actual founder and main developer of the scandalous crypto exchange, which actually turned into a financial pyramid, surfaced again. Some guys from the FSB were also mentioned, who could well have been involved in the rapid withdrawal of money from BTC-e.

Clear business, "Cryptocriticism" could not passpast such a booth. Therefore, the "detective on the couch" was turned on and some research was carried out. Which expand the circle of suspects and raise new questions regarding what is happening.

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Let's start with the list of suspects outlined on Bitcointalk in the framework of the case of the sucked and heir of BTC-e, that is, the WEX exchange.

As you can see, many interesting names were mentioned.Some of them are quite famous. For example, Malofeev and Ashmanov with their wife Natalya Kasperskaya. However, if you scroll through that topic a little further, you can come across this comment. "All Codla BTC-E and their primary partners".

Naturally, I became interested in what the chief editor and founder of Bits.Media (BTCSec.com before blocking by Roskomnadzor in 2015) was doing there.

Source: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89036.msg991346

This means you need to read the original conference thread on Ilerney via the WebArchive.

On the whole, nothing interesting appeared in it, except for this.

A conference reader asks who Alex Saver is. By the way, here it is.

And who answers the question on Ilerney? For some reason, Belousov, who in reality could easily have been that same Alexei Bilyuchenko from Novosibirsk. For some reason LZ himself could not write anything about himself. Now pay attention to the content of the answer:

"Alex Saver (aka “LZ”, “lzsaver”) is one of the main activists in the Bitcoin community and a popularizer of Bitcoin. Programmer,former hacker, cyberpunk, english teacher at school, romantic and just a good person. Regarding Bitcoins:moderator BitcoinTalk.org, one of the early users of Bitcoin, in 2010 “influenced” the discovery of the source code of the first successful (but proprietary) GPU miner,EMA Corporation LLC is developing Bitcoin solutionsfor CH countriesG".

Former hacker, not employed at Kaspersky,neither in Group-IB, nor in the office of Detsky Mir. He also teaches at school. Yes Yes. This is in 2012. If anyone doesn’t remember, in 2013 the formation and recruitment of army scientific companies began. Which means hiring workers there, among other things, for shadow government needs. Which also means that the concept of such was already in the heads of the General Staff and the top of the Ministry of Defense around 2010. Because the necessary state bureaucracy and knocking out budgets in our country takes a couple of years for sure. Which also means that before the formation of the concept of kulkhatsker companies, they were already actively used in private by both the “office” and the “house in Yasenevo” and the military themselves. And that all the more or less interesting characters were closely herded by the siloviki even then. They just decided to expand the process and put it on stream.

The flow is now formally 11 per hour(website of the RF Ministry of Defense), although Wiki talks about 12, and the Zvezda TV channel – generally about 16. Where did the other 5 go? - the question is. Perhaps these are completely closed “boxes”. However, with the right funding and approach, it seems that serving in them will not be a waste at all. For example, the military built up their elite-looking technopolis “Era” in Anapa. Right by the sea and with its own beach. I strongly approve.

But if we ignore the funny legend, then EMA LLC is what’s really interesting. I hear we're talking about this company.

Which has its head office inNovosibirsk. Where is that same Bilyuchenko from?And which has licenses from FSTEC and FSB to work with sensitive information and cryptography. Which is generally logical: any more or less significant company in the fuel and energy sector must be under “office” control. Especially after Stuxnet in 2010. After all, the country's energy security.

Yes, I completely forgot to say what exactly they do at EMA LLC. "The main activities of the company "EMA" - project management automation of technological processes of production, transmission, distribution and consumption of electricity".

Or, more simply, writing software for controlling power plants and supplying equipment for them.CONVENIENT FOR HIDDEN MININGdon't you find? At the same time, google shows nothing at all where the EMA could at least somehow intersect with the cryptocurrency. But if it was a private initiative of a group of its employees, then why not.

What happens, gentlemen? Really?BitZintol LZ is not just familiar with BTC-e, but something more? Maybe they are with Bilyuchenko (Belousov?) were friends and colleagues in that same energy company? For example, at first they mined together, then they figured out how to use the company's resources, and then they opened the exchange? Moreover, they write to me that my father Bilyuchenko (who also seems to be in business with BTCe) also worked in a certain electrical company in Novosib. The picture is twisting more and more fun, and more questions.

In this case, it is worth paying attention to the unexpected recognition of LZ / Saver on March 31, 2012.

"PersonallyI haven't used bitcoins for a month and a half. This is not the project that I sincerely believed in back in 2010. Right nowit is a centralized and tracked system like WebMoney/PayPal, a project without a clear direction for its development andwithout any idea. Why didn't he leave then? Because I feel a responsibility to people who believe in Bitcoin the same way I believed in the very beginning.Bitcoins are just candy wrappers, Guys.You can make money from them - well done, but you shouldn’t build castles in the air. This has been a business for a long time. There is no reason to believe in the 21 million limit and other initial ideas, now they are just marketing gimmicks.Big Brother has long been here."

A very strange confession for an activethe admin is still present on Bitcointalk, don't you think? This may well be explained if we remember the news about the drug bubble on Bitfinex and a character from their technical team (which also served the QuadrigaCX pyramid), who SUDDENLY turned out to be a paid informant for the CIA.

Also in the post I wrote: "P.S. I have previously argued that Bitcoin was invented by a team of developers in the interests of"Very polite people" from Mexico and Colombia. Was wrong. I forgot about their senior partners up the map. Which are great specialists (like ours) for transporting weapons and substances for the hidden needs of the state (Pinochet’s case, for example) and just for personal gesheft. Oh, sorry, of course, we are talking about the supply of banana lots by diplomatic mail and humanitarian aid in case of fires by local EMERCOM aircraft. Only help to distressed regions, only hardcore!"

Actually, now Natalia Kasperskaya’s version is no longerseems so crazy. Bitcoin could well have been invented by the same CIA to circumvent the 4th Directive and anti-money laundering measures that would interfere with the financing of all covert ops. A convenient means of shadow settlements with dubious counterparties for officials, why not?

Obviously, such research is unlikely to have passed by the comrades from Lubyanka. Which control the fuel and energy complex and herd the kulkhatskers, especially those who work for the “office” itself. Now let's imagine thatLZ - the "office" or freelance, whom the curator ordered to urgently throwfawn occupation. And at the same time he presented a certain proof that broke LZ's convictions in the bud. And then LZ opened up and threw a cue ball with mining for himself in the trash of history. But for some reason I didn’t stop actively grazing on Bitcointalk. Because well, someone has to follow the cryptocurrency party, right?

I guess my version isn't entirely crazy either.It could be clarified by the list of employees of EMA LLC for 2010-2012 - but where can I get it, hehe. And now it’s worth moving from one conspiracy theory to another. About Ivan Tikhonov and Bits.Media.

In general, perform in the same clearing with the vilepyramid (in which the wanted Dima Vasiliev from BTC-e / WEX is on board) should be a bummer for a normal person. But these are cryptans, they don’t give a fuck. Just look at the scam Elina Sidorenko and her friend Katerina Kondratenko. However, something else is interesting - namely, the past of BTCSec and the potential connection with the organizers of BTC-e.

Let's go through the dates. The appearance of the user btc-e.com on BitcoinTolk – July 9, 2011.

The BTC-e exchange itself was launched on August 7, 2011. At the same time, the Crunchbase account talks about July 17, 2011.

First article on BTCSec appears July 23, 2011.

Tikhonov’s announcement of the opening of BTCSec was made on July 25, 2011.

For those who did not understand that this is Tikhonov, here is a picture from 2009 from an overclocking tournament. Nicknamepolym0rph. A little more information about Ivan Anatolyevich Tikhonov (date of birth November 21, 1984) here.

Nevertheless, Tikhonov announced the anniversary of the site on Habré (post dated July 31, 2012) on July 31, 2011. In addition, he talks about how BTCSec was promoted at first and what happened with advertising on the site:

"Until recently, there was no advertising at all. That is, of course, they applied, then hang up banners on tourism, or something else. But I didn’t need such advertising at all on the site, and in the future it will not be either. And if what thematic resource needs to be accommodated - so please, and for free, in the right directory. I just want to collect all the useful resources so that users can quickly find them."

Keep the news site open for enthusiasm in 2012 for a year and refuse advertising so that you can pay for the same hosting or domain? A bit of a controversial story, but you never know.

Let's move on. Here is a comment on Habré dated October 18, 2011. Ivan mentions the very, very young BTC-e exchange.

On October 22, 2011, Tikhonov writes on Bitcointalk about the opening of the “Exchange” section on BTCSec. At the same time, it asks you to indicate which crypto exchanges should be added.

The section itself appeared on the site on October 17 of the same year. Its content is extremely interesting.

Exactly 2 exchanges. Very young BTC-e and famous MTGox. Moreover, BTC-e is first on the list. On the BTCSec forum (Bits.media), threads about both exchanges appear on October 16th.

But it is possible the marriage of Ivan and Catherine Tikhonovand a honeymoon to Italy greatly distracted the creator of BTCSec from working with content sections and the update will be later. Therefore, I decided to flip through the snapshots of the Web Archive for when other crypto exchanges appear on the list.

Another April 20, 2014 in the “Exchanges” section onBTCSec had exactly two listed: BTC-e and Mt.Gox. And only a snapshot from June 25, 2014 shows that the section was replenished with Bitstamp, Exmoney, WBE, GOC.io, but lost the mention of Mt.Gox.

For almost 4 years, Ivan Tikhonov and his colleagues on the site could not replenish the “Exchanges” section, regularly replenishing others and remained amazingly devoted to BTC-e. Amazing story.

And now some information sent by the attentivereader of Cryptocriticism. The main payment method in BTC-e was WebMoney (WMZ) and the daily turnover on it was meager for the exchange. God willing, a couple of tens of thousands of dollars. By 2013, the BTC-e turnover had become completely different, according to the publication on Habré (By the way, who wrote it?) And then the volumes could be in the best traditions of cryptans drawn from head to toe.

That is, a direct question arises: why did Tikhonov actually promote a very young and young BTC-e? Maybe because he was noticeably more with her than he knew?

By the way, I completely forgot about the connection of Mt.Gox and BTC-e:

"It was anonymity that made BTC-e popular amongcyber fraudsters a platform, according to US authorities. Through it, for example, 530 thousand bitcoins stolen from the Japanese cryptocurrency site Mt.Gox were laundered, follows from the American indictment". © BBC

"The official statement states that Vinnik is nothe just led the criminal group since 2011 and laundered over $ 4 billion in bitcoins through BTC-e, but the BTC-e administrator was also involved, if not in the very robbery of the Mt. Gox, then at least to launder stolen funds". © Hacker

That's how interesting it turns out. In June 2011, Mt.Gox was hacked and 2,000 bitcoins were stolen, and a few months later BTC-e was opened, which was then accused of laundering funds stolen from Mt.Gox.

Now we summarize the accumulated Old and try to suggest something.

Assumption 1. Stolen money from Mt.Gox could make up BTC-e primary working capital. In this connection, the question arises of who broke Mt.Gox a second time in 2014.

Assumption 2.Ivan Tikhonov from BTCSec not only knew the founder of BTC-e Belousov (Biliuchenko?), with whom he held that same online conference at Ilerney in 2012. There is every chance thatIvan Tikhonov and BTCSec / Bits.Media were the PR department of BTC-e from the very beginning. For example, in order to increase the turnover of the same exchange at the expense of attracted “hamsters”. And the more turns, the more you can wash.

Accordingly, Tikhonov can know everyonethe persons involved in the case, as well as where and to whom the crypto money went. So I recommend visiting St. Petersburg and the events where Ivan Anatolyevich appears with reports in order to ask him simple and understandable questions. Moreover, it would be interesting to know the list of Bilyuchenko’s movements in the period from 2010 to 2014. There was a hint in the screenshot above that Alexey regularly appeared in St. Petersburg. It is possible that he was among the participants, for example, in this party in 2013, organized by Tikhonov and Co.

Assumption 3. LZ / Alex Saver, father and son Bilyuchenkocould be colleagues at EMA, which was engaged in software and equipment for power plants. Which head office is in Novosibirsk, wherejust the Bilyuchenko family. At the same time, it is possible that LZ / Saver is under the control of the FSB, if it does not work for it in one form or another. Accordingly, the question arises under whose control Bilyuchenko Jr. was and from what year.

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And now let’s move from one conspiracy theory to another. About the millions of Sergei Mayzus.

The other day, a post appeared by Misha Zhukhovitsky, in which he reported interesting news: Mayzus, through the court, was able to wring out what was lost from BTC-e. Nobody could, but Sergei could. Glory to the hero!

And there were interesting comments there too.

However, the question arose as to how Mayzus pulled it all off. To do this, I had to read the original text from the lawyers that Sergei hired.

What is the point? Lawyers did not sue for fraud, etc., but filed a claim for reputation damage to Alexander Vinnik and BTC-e (17 defendants) due to the fact that the honest name of Mayzus and his companies was messed up in the scandal with laundering cue ball after arrest Vinnika. The amount of damage and compensation for the costs of the proceedings according to the court decision came out a little more than 38 million dollars.

Reasonable questions arise:How did Mayzus collect 38 million and why was the claim drawn up so strangely? Do you often see lawsuits in defense of business reputation with such a claim amount? Especially won ones. Of course, since the trial took place in Cyprus, we can assume that the courts there are no worse than ours in terms of flexibility in their approach to resolving the case. But still... Therefore, my colleague Reptiloid and I had a little doubt and decided to come up with theories about what it was.

Version 1.Mayzus has already somehow pulled money out of BTC-e (maybe he didn’t lose them there at all) and legal entities associated with the cryptocurrency exchange. Or he knows how to get 38 million for promoted lawyers and get them out of there. Or do you need to pull out some OTHER loot - who knows? Accordingly, the court decision makes it easy and elegant to whitewash money. Like, he honestly knocked out the assholes who ruined his reputation - if you please, look at the court decision. No questions from the tax.

Version 2. We believe more realistic. Mayusus knows who and how to get loot from. But he needs a full justification for making claims that can not be jumped off. It’s one thing, say, verbal agreements or some correspondence — and another thing, when you owe 38 lemas in court. There is already pretend to be "I don’t know what millions, you cho" will fail. Here you can only challenge the decision of the court - what is unlikely that anyone will do.

In any case, I have already stocked up with popcorn and beer and will continue to monitor developments.

This concludes the conspiracy thesis. She was already tired, and there is much more to write on the topic of marketing and venture investment. So there is a break with the cryptans, and you subscribe to the channels by the links below. I’ll throw something curious soon.

 

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