15 September, representatives of the closed BTC-E cryptocurrency exchange published information on the company's Twitter account about the resumption of activities under a new name - WEX.
“We spent a lot of effort and energy, to create a new trading platform as soon as possible. Our site will conduct its activities in accordance with Anti-money laundering and Know your customer laws and world practices in this area ", - representatives of the exchange noted.
For security reasons, the site will operate in test mode from three to seven working days - during this period, the administration set daily limits for withdrawal of funds.
According to representatives of the exchange, together with the transferred user balances, each client will receive bonus crypto tokens in the calculation 61,7% on 38,2%. Separately, they note, that the new exchange "did not in any way touch or take over the funds of BTC-E Always Efficient LLP".
Besides, the site owners signed agreements with the "network of verified exchange services", to provide clients with the ability to deposit and withdraw fiduciary currencies - dollars, euros and rubles - as with the help of non-cash payment, and in cash.
The exchange resumed work against the backdrop of a fall in the value of bitcoin 15 September cryptocurrency fell in price by $800 to $3080. The reason was reports of the closure of two cryptocurrency exchanges in China under pressure from local regulators. As of 16 September, the cost of bitcoin is $3760.
BTC-E cryptocurrency exchange closed 25 July 2017 years after, how the FBI seized the company's servers. Also 25 July in Greece on suspicion of money laundering $4 billion through bitcoins was detained by Russian Alexander Vinnik. Reuters called it "”key figure”, behind the development of BTC-E ", however, representatives of the exchange did not recognize his connection as a service.
