1. You need a bank account, which requires that you are a Chinese resident, or an taobao & Alipay account, which requires that you are either a Chinese resident, a resident of Hong Kong SAR, a resident of RAE Macau, or a Taiwan resident.

2. They do not need proof of ID, but they require your ID information.

3. Almost all of them.

4. Unless you come to China in person.

It looks the server is totally down.
@Tycho, can you make a comment?

China's national TV CCTV1 gives some free advertisement on Bitcoin, so people are making news on it. No one has actually purchased a house with Bitcoin so far.

Attention please!

Please note that there has been no success in transferring money out of MT4 account so far.

Well. It took me half an hour to write my previous post and in the mean time TF posted another post, so I think I'll have to add something more.

Actually I have contacted TF once before this incident. At that time inputs.io was suffering DDoS and one of my withdraw from CL got missing.

I was a little busy during the recent 3 days so I stopped following the news regarding to CL. And I'm not a native English speaker so I'll skip everything in this thread and jump directly to answer these questions addressed to me. If there were anything else I should know please brief me later and I'll happy to add my opinion.

1. Yes, I mean CL balance. I do not use inputs.io except for deposit and withdraws on CL.
2. I think I haven't got the right to regard myself as a friend of TF's. Actually, I know little about TF except that he was active on this forum and a lot of people trusted him. I even do not know his nationality before this incident.  If there were any reasons for me to get a "special treatment", I believe they are beyond my knowledge.
3. TF sent the transaction (a0f289b2e8b2d2f255aef460f5e77459c4f75dbba03db213f1f0ead0e8ce1c3d) on Nov. 7th and it got confirmed 2 days later.

Actually, there is a little more details I'd like to add. I got 26.04301688 BTC at the moment I sent the request and 2 withdraws of 1 BTC and 0.5 BTC which never show up in inputs.io account. TF sent me 27.54 BTC and I took it as "full amount". TF sent the transaction on Nov. 7th, however, because he sent some other transactions that day without fees and those transactions' output were used as inputs for this transaction, this transaction stayed unconfirmed for a long time, which is enough for blockchain.info to delete it from their database. So TF sent another transaction of 26.04301688 BTC on Nov. 9th. When I asked about the 2 missing withdraws, TF said those coins would come back to my CL account in the coming days with the CL update. I think this means that CL will restore to normal and continue to operate.

Well, the end of my story is that those unconfirmed inputs of the first transaction (27.54 BTC) got confirmed first and caused a double spending on the 2nd transaction (26.04301688 BTC), and the first transaction got confirmed a short while later. So I got 27.54 BTC in the end, which I still regard as "full amount".

If there's anything more you would like to know, please send a PM. I'll still be a little busy in the coming few days but I'll find the time to answer them.

I think you don't have to worry anymore if you are not in need of your coins right now.
If you want your coins back now, send an email with your bitcoin address to support@inputs.io. I guess TF is processing refunds to users as we speak, just give him a little more time.

At least we know TF will pay us back now. Let's give him a little more time.
I need those coins right now because I have to settle some future contacts, perhaps TF considered my situation and decided to cash me out first.

I mailed to support@inputs.io

I just got my full balance in CL out (over 20 BTC). Although transaction hasn't been confirmed yet, I now declare that TF has earned my full trust.

Since it's also operated by TF, I cannot assume so. CoinLenders has stopped withdrawing two days ago.

Will we be able to retrieve the coins in CoinLenders too?

Any man is a good man until the time when he turns bad.

Guys, stopping lying to yourselves and accept the fact that we are fucked over again.

I just got my full balance in CL out (over 20 BTC). Although transaction hasn't been confirmed yet, I now declare that TF has earned my full trust.

What is happening is that withdraws from coinlenders, which are actually internal transactions between input.io accounts, are not showing up in people's inputs.io accounts. As far as I know, withdraw from coinlenders has nothing to do with cold storage. Furthermore, coinlenders has no hot wallet nor offline wallet at all. What it has is a inputs.io account and it's inputs.io that keeps coins in cold storage.

I'd like to be patient, however, I need the coins RIGHT NOW.

Neither do I.

Since China has not recognized Bitcoin as currency, a Chinese business entity cannot accept Bitcoin as a form of payment.

However, the trade still can be accomplished as a kind of compensation trade, that is, the Chinese side will 'import' a Bitcoin private key as a 'technology' or 'import' a 'service' of sending certain data to Bitcoin network, while export some goods to the foreign side.

Confirmed working.

However, I'm sure deposits has been down for far more than 1 hour. My email asking for help was sent 4 hours ago.

My deposit has got over 60 confirmations but has not been credited to my account. I'm getting worried about their system.