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Any know what's up with this? My wallet has been disabled and I'm pretty sure the disabled everyone's.

http://puu.sh/dlzpt/96411a9024.png

Just created an account to ask this same question. Is everyone's blockchain wallet disabled right now?

maybe blockchain is under a ddos attack right now and its purely done for temporal security to ensure funds are not lost.

this is the kind of times where people need to learn that blockchain.info should be used purely has a lazy user interface. and to keep backups of their wallets so that in these times, users can simply put their priv keys into another service and continue as usual whilst blockchain.info sort themselves out.

just because blockchain.info maybe down should not stop anyone accessing their funds.... IF THE USER HAS THEIR PRIVKEYS BACKED UP.

again blockchain.info is just a user interface. the important thing is the privkeys. which can be transported to any bitcoin service and continue as usual.

Its working fine now. Dont know how long the site was like that. I was panicking for a moment as that was my first bitcoin scare lol

The moral of the story

lot of problem with blockchain.info recently

This is why bitcoin.org removed blockchain from their site ::)

Yes, blockchain wallet users should remember to check email for a link to authorise access. It is a bit troublesome, but good for the security of our coins.

Yes, because of lot of newbies don't read about the lack of security when using blockchain and because it is the more convenient wallet, they just start using it without thinking twice and this is why I think it was removed from bitcoin.org, to encourage people to use desktop wallets.

They recently had a security bug where there was an issue with the creation of private keys on their websites (the creation of keys was not truly "random"). If you created a new private key within, I believe a two hour window then they likely disabled your identifier so you can be made aware that you should not use the address associated with such private keys and should spend any funds contained in such addresses to another address

I suggest electrum :)

https://twitter.com/blockchain/status/542106998150799360


In reference to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2onm5r/blockchaininfo_security_disclosure/


With that moved to greenaddress.it and trezor.

And now we all learned a lesson, we  learned that we should never use Online wallets  ::)

Blockchain wallet should only be used to store funds you can afford to lose. If you are panicking in a situation like this you have to many BTC stored.

I used blockchain for  gamble or buy a service only. I have no much trust to online wallet.

Just let me take a quick look  at my blockchain.info-android-app
Yep, money is still there, no problem.

Well, blockchain.info got another error

Looks like we have to use another online wallet / use secure wallet  :(
But, my wallet never disabled

blockchain.info is actually a relatively secure wallet and is really not an "online" wallet service as they do not ever control/have access to your private keys.

Generally speaking, your wallet/private keys are as secure as the computer that generates and accesses the wallet.

If push comes to shove, the OP can always "recover" his wallet by importing it into multibit (assuming he is able to gain access to a backup)

I don't have much faith in online wallet as well but just put a little fund there for daily life spending.