That's a misrepresentation of the claim process. You did not have to file the claim twice.
All you had to do is confirm that the amount we had on records for your claim matched the amount you expected.
A necessary step for us to clear our liability given the particular design of instawallet.
Your wallet key would have allowed you to confirm your payout in one click.
It was never a good idea to "misplace" an instawallet wallet key before the wallet balance was spent.
It is a still a good idea to keep the instawallet key until the balance is refunded.


Why don't you send the numbers to me and Arsy via PM ?

UPDATE

The sixth payout batch was sent today. Tx ID is

'6342536a1b44ebbc08126631b1a999e08ee7685ad38502d40edbe2ff7e355865'.

Next payout date is Monday, September 16.

Le site n'a jamais fermé (sauf pour maintenance temporaire), c'est seulement le trading (création et exécution des ordres d'échanges euro/bitcoin et bitcoin/euro) qui a été suspendu 4 mois pour préparer une nouvelle version du site, plus performante.

Pendant la suspension du trading, il est toujours possible de s'inscrire et de retirer ses fonds (euros ou bitcoins) pour ceux/celles qui sont déjà inscrit(e)s.

La réouverture du trading doit se faire mi-Septembre, après la phase de test qui se termine ces jours-ci.
A ce moment là, les dépôts en euros et en bitcoins seront à nouveau possibles.

I understand your disapointment if you are the rightful owner but you could give us credit for setting up a claim process at our own cost.

If your claim was not paid there must be a reason and your claim status tells you about it:
- multiple claims for the same wallet with different payout addresses
- large amount balance that requires identification before payout.
etc

Think about helping us determine that you are the rightful owner and provide at least your claim number, balance and claim status.

Non, désolé, seulement achat en ligne.

En effet, pour le moment je n'ai pas acheté les pièces en argent de 1 BTC.
Si les pièces de 0.5 BTC en argent se vendent bien, j'ajouterai les pièces de 1 BTC en argent au catalogue.

Woww


Woow again.
If it's that bad, there is not point in even trying to contact them then.
They probably run off to the Virgin Islands or Costa Rica with wife and children.
Evene a life sentence to Gitmo would be too lenient to them.

J'ai mis à jour mon site microbitcoin.fr (en anglais et en français) avec désormais

 - le classique Casascius Coin de 2011 (série 2) à 1.45 BTC
 - le nouveau Casascius Coin 2013 de 0.5 BTC en argent (environ 15,75 g d'argent pur à 99.9% pour les numismates) à 1.70 BTC

J'ai complété et mis à jour aussi la page "comment ça marche" (qui datait de 2011).

Le site n'utilise pas un processeur de paiement comme bitpay mais un wallet déterministe, complètement autonome.
Une nouvelle adresse de paiement est générée pour chaque commande à partir de la clé publique de mon wallet (128 caractères):

'c56b2f46fe68c07d616ab218019fb9065493590a4bb1fb030c51d532c5598b6a834e4595e4cb7f8 9f07d409659078b7aa5d47026cf887ee6658910eb1d38629a'

Il est possible de vérifier que l'adresse de paiement affichée sur une facture émise par microbitcoin.fr est dérivée de cette clé publique.
Je peux donc recevoir des paiements très simplement sur mon wallet Electrum.

Je dirai plutôt:

1. faire au moins une transaction bitcoin de A à Z (avec un échange et un wallet electrum par exemple): un déclic de compréhension se produit seulement quand les gens utilisent bitcoin au moins une fois, sinon ils ne savent pas de quoi ils parlent, pas suffisamment en tout cas pour écrire un article.

2. faire son travail de journaliste (interviewer uniquement des banquiers c'est comme écrire un article sur l'écologie en interrogeant uniquement des cadres de Total ou de BP).

En cliquant trois fois sur "ajouter au panier", tu peux commander un quart de rouleau ..

J'ai mis à jour mon site microbitcoin.fr avec désormais

 - le classique Casascius Coin de 2011 (série 2) à 1.45 BTC
 - le nouveau Casascius Coin 2013 de 0.5 BTC en argent (environ 15,75 g d'argent pur à 99.9% pour les numismates) à 1.70 BTC

J'ai complété et mis à jour aussi la page "comment ça marche".

Le site n'utilise pas un processeur de paiement comme bitpay mais un wallet déterministe, complètement autonome.
Une nouvelle adresse de paiement est générée pour chaque commande à partir de la clé publique de mon wallet (128 caractères):

'c56b2f46fe68c07d616ab218019fb9065493590a4bb1fb030c51d532c5598b6a834e4595e4cb7f8 9f07d409659078b7aa5d47026cf887ee6658910eb1d38629a'

Il est possible de vérifier que l'adresse de paiement affichée sur une facture émise par microbitcoin.fr est dérivée de cette clé publique.
Je peux donc recevoir des paiements très simplement sur mon wallet Electrum.

Je cross-post afin de faire savoir au maximum chez les bitcoiners francophones.

When did you contact us (me or Arsy) about your "pending" claim ?
If you did not, I recommend you do, including you claim number.
No claim is "pending" without a reason.
You are not in a position to say whether a claim is rightful or not, except for your claims , if any.

Yes I have read about it since I am selling casascius coins on microbitcoin.fr

Tamperevident stickers were never thought of as bulletproof in the first place.
Difficult is good enough as long as the physical coins are used as cold storage or collectors items or as a way to send coins to a newbie.
Collectors items can be tracked.

I never thouhgt physical coins would be used in my local fish market as medium of exchange.

Great work: I just ordered some tamperevident stickers.

Absolutely, if you are trolling this Forum to spread truncated information insinuating (like you do) "wrong doings", behind the comfort of your anonymity.
If anyone had a reasonable, documented claim for a wallet, the channel was open on instawallet.org and the payouts have been sent.

Your reading of the thread might have been only partial, teacher:
here is the post written by steelboy on July 29 about his memory recovery and short lived happiness at receiving his payout from Instawallet:


So I should be dragged in the mud but with my hands tied in the back preferrably ?
If anyone starts throwing numbers on this open forum, one should expect the whole story will be told.

By the way, we set up a claim process allowing people to keep their claims private at our own costs.
I don't believe a 100% satisfaction rate would have been a realistic goal.

That's right steelboy: I have no concrete proof from you offline.
Please do not hijack the thread to deal with your particular case. A case that is highly "unusual" to say the least.
I will not respond to further allegations but I will respond to any proof that you provide. Offline as previously indicated.
If there is no proof you can safely conclude that your claim will not be accepted.

@BCB
What is your claim number and status ? (please PM me or Arsy).

I am not asking for "more" proof since I have received none whatsoever. I am asking for A proof.

if you did not send any proof, that may be beause it does not exist, in which case it is only responsible to safeguard the interest of the company against an unjustified demand.

The balance of your claim is zero.

I am sorry if someone said they have a proof you did not empty the wallet, I have yet to see the proof.
I am asking for a proof like a signed message with a signature using the private key of one of the funding addresses.
Then, as a second step, we will search for a proof of you not empying the wallet.
Please use contact@paymium.com when sending evidence.
Due to a lack of resources, I will not respond to anymore of your numerous messages (including txt messages on my cell phone) until I receive such evidence.

Hi James,
I am not sure if this conversation belongs to an open Fourm or PM but since your are here, I'll go for it, no problem.
That's right, it was rude of me to think about taking a few days off without responding to the dozens of messages I receive on this Forum.
It's not even vacation, since I am not paid to do what I do for Instawallet.
Now I recall that you questionned me about a claim for a wallet showing a near zero balance: no , I will not respond personnally to this type of inquiry, even if that means being rude.
When you claimed several wallets showing a significant, positive balance, I recall sending you the corresponding payouts.
You wrote that you did not withdraw the money: I may believe you because you sound like an honest person but I have no proof of that.
I have no proof either that you deposited the money.
If you can supply cryptographic evidence of the transactions at boussac.75011@gmail.com I will take a serious look at it when I get to it (i.e be patient).


EDIT: removed reference to amount of previous payouts to Steelboy at the request of Steelboy

Yeah!! Great idea. Is inputs.io your other great idea ?