News report # BTC-e Rebrands to Wex Exchange — Claims to be AML/KYC Compliant Bitcoin.com News, September 16, 2017. BTC-e resurgence: the opening of WEX at wex.nz weeks after BTC-e went dark, addressed to ex-BTC-e users and crediting their frozen balances in WEX tokens. **Source type:** News report **Published:** September 16, 2017 **Research grade:** S2 **Used in entries:** 1 ## Bibliographic record **Publisher:** Bitcoin.com News **Published:** September 16, 2017 **Source type:** News report **Research grade:** Source grade S2 **Language:** English **Official record:** Not an official publication **Address:** [https://news.bitcoin.com/btc-e-rebrands-to-wex-exchange-claims-to-be-amlkyc-compliant/](https://news.bitcoin.com/btc-e-rebrands-to-wex-exchange-claims-to-be-amlkyc-compliant/) **What it supports:** BTC-e resurgence: the opening of WEX at wex.nz weeks after BTC-e went dark, addressed to ex-BTC-e users and crediting their frozen balances in WEX tokens **Dataset id:** src\_bitcoincom\_btce\_wex\_2017 ## Research notes - By Jamie Redman. - published\_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2017-09-16T05:40:36+00:00). The record's continuity text gives 15 September 2017 as the WEX launch date; this article was published the following day and does not itself state a launch date. - The headline uses an em dash, not a hyphen, between 'Exchange' and 'Claims'. - Trade publication owned by Bitcoin.com, so treated as secondary press rather than an independent authority. How this source is used Cited 1 time across 1 record type. The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards. Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here. ## Cited by ### Later activity 1 citation Cited for activity recorded after the takedown. - [WEX (wex.nz)](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/btc-e-disruption) Rebrand, BTC-e disruption Later outcome [All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)