When it was seized by U.S. law enforcement in 2017, BTC-e was described as “one of the world’s largest and most widely used digital currency exchanges.
” It was also one of the most notorious.nnBillions of bitcoin and other digital currencies had been swapped since BTC-e’s creation six years prior. But that was before one of its alleged founders, Aleksandr Vinnik, was arrested on a Greek beach in 2017 on a U.S. arrest warrant. The following year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed precise evidence in alleging how Russia’s military intelligence agency used bitcoin transactions to mask meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
