Bitzlato
0.0/10 total
This service no longer exists. It is kept in the table so that outdated guides recommending it can be checked against reality. Treat any site currently using this name as hostile.
Seized and dissolved. Founder Anatoly Legkodymov was arrested in Miami on 17 January 2023 and Europol took down the platform's French-hosted infrastructure on 23 January 2023, with Europol assessing that roughly 46 percent of the assets it processed, about 1.09 billion dollars, were linked to illicit activity. Legkodymov pleaded guilty on 6 December 2023 to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, forfeited a claim to 23 million dollars in crypto seized by French authorities, and agreed as a plea term to dissolve the exchange. The apex domain still resolves to Leaseweb address space but serves nothing over HTTPS, which means the name is dormant rather than reclaimed.
Scores
Weights are published in the method and applied identically to every entry.
For
Nothing that still applies.
Against
- Infrastructure seized by Europol and partners on 23 January 2023; the exchange does not operate.
- Dissolution of the company was an explicit term of the founder's 6 December 2023 guilty plea, so there is no lawful path to a relaunch under this name.
- User balances were fully custodial and were caught in the seizure.
- The domain still has live DNS pointing at hosting with no service behind it, a state that makes brand reuse easy.
- Any site presenting itself as Bitzlato today is not the original operator.
Agent access 0/10
The trading API died with the platform. Nothing is reachable.
Reported separately and not counted in the total. It measures what an autonomous agent can do unattended, not whether the service is safe to use.
Fees
n/a
No longer quotable. The platform is dissolved under a US plea agreement.
Specification
- Type
- Peer-to-peer
- KYC policy
- No KYC
- Custody model
- custodial
- Account required
- yes
- Assets
- n/a
- Chains
- n/a
- Operating since
- 2016
- Jurisdiction
- undisclosed
- Onion service
- no
- Works without JS
- no
- Open source
- no
- Facts checked
- 2026-07-31