What do you think the top vulnerabilities of the BTC blockchain are that are directly due to the increasing majority of hash power being "owned" by a single political/social entity (Chinese)?

Worked out, but almost 2 days to deposit.

 Akemashite Omedetou  Fog Rep - Now's a good time for your monthly post

Show face or loose face.  A quick post can do wonders for your rep & customer confidence.

Same exact thing happened to me 8 days ago!!!!
Bit pays initial response was quick and informative.
HOWEVER, the coins are still in their possession and ZEN desk has been less than helpful in resolving the issue. 
Their client, the vendor has actually been emailing daily for a week.

Bitpay situation is currently very disturbing

Yes Thank you piuk!  BTW Mandrik has been both helpful & responsive -

I just received confirmation from BitPay that the coins actually are in limbo.  Here's what happened...

The Shared Coin transaction took longer than the Vendors invoice was left open.  The invoice timed out after partial payment had posted to the account.  The remaining coins were not identified to that invoice/address since it had timed out & closed.

We're rectifying it all now.

piuk & Mandrik THANKS

BTC r cool BTC   I love the concept,  Wish I can learn more faster!

Hi - Please excuse my ignorance and help me find my coins!

I seem to have misplaced ~3.6 Bitcoins during my very first BC transaction. 
Five days ago (30 Jan) I sent ~5.2 BTC to a vender via BitPay using Shared Coin in Blockchain. 
BitPay credited the vendors account only 1.6 BTC and claims to have only received partial payment. 

-Blockchains help desk has been responsive stating "....I can also see the funds did arrive at the destination address you indicated"
-I have't yet heard back from BitPay but emailed them stating, " ... I am assuming only partial payment was received before the invoice expired.  Where was the remaining payment deposited? "
-Shared coin is open source with no POC's or help desk.

This is BIG money to me - I can't believe I've done this in the blind.  How do I recover and avavoid this in the future?

Please advise.
Thank you.