Thanks, i should have checked the support thread myself, forgot it existed.

Is this down for good?  Is there somewhere else I can buy bitcoin like I used too from bitinstant using moneygram/zipzap?

I need to make a payment in the next few days with BTC and I will need to setup a wire transfer ASAP if this is not going to be up soon.

Thanks for the recommendations, but I went with feral.  Didn't find a better deal and they have instant bitcoin payment (through mtgox) or standard send to a wallet on their website.  I just used the standard payment of sending to their wallet.  As soon as the transaction was confirmed, I had access to my slot.  Super clean and easy to use interface. 

They even give a 3% discount for using bitcoin.

Feral seems the best that I've found anyone recommend something better?

No clue what the bottom is, but personally I'm going to wait until things become relatively stable for more than a few hours before buying ....and I plan on having fun watching while it gets there  

So glad I caught this at work...Usually I get this stuff wrong but I got a nice sell in at 45 before everything lagged to shit.  

Now i Just hope it keeps dropping and dropping so I can buy back in at the bottom.

Sometimes you get lucky I guess

Sold at 45     ZORGBERG!  Now let's see how low it goes before I buy

 

I have heard rumors of an African savant that can hash blocks in his head.

What's at the end of the road I wonder.  It looks pretty desolate out there.

Oh good, glad its just a temporary thing...great service.

Why did they shut down?  Funding terrorism?

I was hoping this would be cleaned up by now, or at least issuers would have their info so we could resume business elsewhere while payments were sorted out.  

At this point, I think allowing people (including issuers) to retrieve their full account histories as Bees Brothers suggested is the only recourse.

Let's hope Garr can give us an update after his talk with Nefario.

Haha yeah...not really all that worried about it.  Plus if someone claims I got double payed, where is the proof?  This thing has not been handled very well.



I mean i haven't been bitching too much since I should have been keeping track better myself of my own accounts, but double payments aside it would have been nice to get your account balance, current assests,  etc. when you login to glbse to make the claim.

Is there a list of double pay transactions somewhere?

I had most of my coins invested in shares and received a <1 BTC transaction that was my recent dividends from before the shutdown.

Even though it is a small amount I would like to return this if it was double payed, but I really have no clue what my balance was at shutdown.

Thanks for getting everything back up so smoothly, happy to be back with ozcoin!

The refund email I received says "We will also inform you when we process your assets, allowing you to continue your relationship with your issuer."

I haven't been informed so I guess that means they are still processing assets.

An official statement from Nefario would be nice, but if he is prioritizing returning account funds and getting asset information to security issuers than I'm fine with that.  We'll learn specifics about what happened eventually and I'd rather be waiting for that than my BTC.

I invested with Cognitive fully aware that GLBSE might eventually be shut down because I trusted Garr would do whatever he can to keep things operating.  I for one was excited by the direction Cognitive was taking before this bad news hit, so it is good to hear that my instinct was correct and Cognitive will continue on despite this development.  My thought now is just to ride this out and let the dust settle, then we can look at options.  As Garr said if some panic selling occurs once it is possible to trade again, then hopefully I can pick up some cheap shares and turn this crappy situation into a positive one.

The BitThief exploit allows someone to 'leech' from the BitTorrent network without actually contributing resources yourself.

Is it possible that they are using a similar exploit to leach block discoveries from the bitcoin network without actually doing any mining on their own?

That could explain how they are getting so much hashpower (i.e. they don't really have it).

I don't think so.  From a quick look, Bitthief just seems to be an exploit of the BitTorrent protocol.  It is interesting however that bitthief is present on port 80 of the Zurich IP (along with an unobfuscated version).   The only connection that I see is that bitthief is an exploit in a P2P protocol (BitTorrent) and bitcoin is another example of a P2P protocol.