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BTC-Alpha

Centralized cryptocurrency exchange publicly launched in November 2016, associated with Ukrainian founder Vitaliy Bodnar and later operating from a United Kingdom-facing exchange profile. BTC-Alpha suffered a reported hacker attack in November 2021, after which user funds were reported safe and the exchange continued operating; the original btc-alpha.com domain now redirects to ALP.COM.

CEXActive
Also known as: BTC Alpha, BTC-Alpha Exchange, ALP.COM

Registry sequence

Key facts

Launch date
2016-11-01
Death date
Years
2016–—
Origin
Ukraine / United Kingdom
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-07-04

URL handling

Preferred action
Use current URL handling based on status below.
URL status
Redirected
Original URL
https://btc-alpha.com/
Archived URL

Summary

Centralized cryptocurrency exchange publicly launched in November 2016, associated with Ukrainian founder Vitaliy Bodnar and later operating from a United Kingdom-facing exchange profile. BTC-Alpha suffered a reported hacker attack in November 2021, after which user funds were reported safe and the exchange continued operating; the original btc-alpha.com domain now redirects to ALP.COM.

Timeline

BTC-Alpha publicly launched
2016-11-01launchedmedium

BTC-Alpha's public launch is recorded as November 1, 2016 in exchange-profile and secondary reference material.

BTC-Alpha reported a hacker attack
2021-11-03hackhigh

Russian-language crypto reporting described a hacker attack against BTC-Alpha and reported that user funds were safe.

BTC-Alpha domain redirected to ALP.COM
2026-07-04othermedium

The original BTC-Alpha domain redirected to ALP.COM during the 2026 review, indicating current branding or domain continuation.

Evidence

Russian Wikipediadatabase_referencemedium reliabilitylaunch_datearchive
ForkLog2021-11-03news_articlemedium reliabilityeventarchive
Cryptowisserdatabase_referencemedium reliabilitystatusarchive
BTC-Alpha / ALP.COMofficial_statementmedium reliabilitystatusarchive

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Notes and record state

Record note
HEI keeps BTC-Alpha as active because the original domain redirects to ALP.COM and no verified shutdown was recovered. The ALP.COM relationship is treated as current branding or domain continuation rather than a separate canonical successor during this batch.
Revision state
Records may be incomplete, approximate, contested, or revised as better evidence becomes available.
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