Major Flaw with Bitcoin Economy: unsecured "banks" keep getting "hacked" into.
In what way ? Have you lost something from a bitcoin bank ?
Me, personally? God, no.
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Gaga ? The serial poster ? Common Gaga, where did you lose money and how much ?
Instawallet?
Now stop fucking around and pay the man, will you?
Firstly, I want to thank psy for the PM making me aware of these posts, of which was the extent of said PM.
At least "serial poster" is a far cry from the last time Boussac addressed me. (I may have to dig up that epic post)
This is really odd! I've never received an email or PM from anybody associated with InstaWallet pertaining to the three wallets they have been so kind to watch over, with this being the first contact hence, and at the risk of posting of off-topic.
I'm currently on the road to Atlanta, staying at a Paducah, KY, tonight. I'm using my new laptop, thus don't have the three original IW URL's handy, but believe I posted two of them on IW's main thread.
I filled out the forms via what was displayed at the time when I visited all three URLs when the initial claim process was in place. After doing such, I got a thank you and we will be in touch page (paraphrased). About a week or so afterwards, I was no longer able to do anything on all three pages, not that I wanted too. The only thing displayed on all three URLs was some standard veriabe, of which currently eludes me.
Two wallets, one of which contained exactly 1,000 BTC and the other was either 132.xxx BTC or 123.xxx BTC (honestly didn't remember which, but submitted the 123.xxx amount, of which I don't remember what the .xxx(xxxxx) was, thus rounded it down to 123 BTC), I didn't have have the wallet addresses, but the form at the time was designed to submit as much info as possible. The third wallet had .84(x) BTC (if I recall correctly) of which I did have the Bitcoin address, but that one supposedly had two other claims on it for some reason, thus assuming that's why it would take that one longer to process. The other two I assumed would take longer because they were both over the 50 BTC threshold, also assuming that they would be processed after IW is finished processing all the lesser claims. Awhile back, I was taken aback when I notice, and commented upon, that IW principal(s) were being paid out their over 50 BTC claims.
Shy of posting periodically on various threads in a civil tone, I have stopped my vitriol attacks against IW due mainly by an email (maybe it was a PM) by a user stating that I would have better luck with my claim if I ended said attacks. I was assured, in no uncertain terms, that it'll all work out if given IW time.
As I've mentioned before, prior to IW going dark, I was an advocate of InstaWallet. In fact, a few days prior to them going dark, there was a concern thread up of which I started raising questions since I knew what I had at stake at the time, but my concerns were laid to rest by one of the principals (don't believe it was Boussac, and sorry for not posting link, but will later, but easy to find) and, ironically, by psy, of which I'm not placing any blame, but it was his words at the time that laid my concern to rest.
On April Fool's day, InstaWallet went dark. I wasn't made aware of it till about three days later by Greywolf via some other thread and somehow the subject came up, all of which I posted the chain of said events in IW's claim thread.
Reading between the lines of Boussac's comment months ago, and the "serial poster" comment above, I'm beginning to believe that my funds, among a handful of others is financing Paymium/Bitcon-Central. I'm sure that somehow my over a quarter of million dollars evaluated at the time due to the exchange rate was moved during the hack, and either some hacker got it or, as I've stated, Team IW allocated the funds.
