It would be safe to assume everything is gone and we'll never hear from him again, except for when he comes back to reveal it was actually a relic collector friend of his.

Another bitcoin business run by an anonymous dude bites the dust. I won't say it's a scam, but that's over a million gone. I have a hard time believing he's that incompetent, he seemed to have his shit together and know what he's doing, so the simplest explanation would be that the temptation was too much for him. I hope that's not the case though, he seemed like a decent guy.

Edit:

That's just over a million at current exchange rates. Gotta say I'm finding it a little hard to believe he was actually hacked and this isn't just another long con, though I'd like to believe that isn't the case.

Full message on his website.

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Two hacks totalling about 4100 BTC have left Inputs.io unable to pay all user balances. The attacker compromised the hosting account through compromising email accounts (some very old, and without phone numbers attached, so it was easy to reset). The attacker was able to bypass 2FA due to a flaw on the server host side.

Database access was also obtained, however passwords are securely stored and are hashed on the client. Bitcoin backend code were transferred to 10;15Hd@mastersearching.com:mercedes49@69.85.88.31 (most likely another compromised server).

What about my coins there? If you stored more than 1 BTC, send an email to support@inputs.io with a Bitcoin address (preferably, an offline, open source light/SPV wallet like Multibit or Electrum). Use the same email you're using on Inputs. Please don't store Bitcoins on an internet connected device, regardless of it is your own or a service's.

I know this doesn't mean much, but I'm sorry, and saying that I'm very sad that this happened is an understatement.

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Apples and oranges. Why compare these two?

Up, up and away.

That's not the scammer label.

It's barely been an hour and a half since you sent him a pm going by your post history, chill out.

And we can't help you.

Could be a banned user checking pms.

A 'bank' where he was paying interest on loans. But yeah, unintentional ponzi in the end. I don't think he meant to, just a dumb kid who didn't realize why paying people for the privilege of debt is a bad thing.

No need to delete it or close it, that's just my opinion, someone else might have a good argument against it.

You can lock it yourself if you wish though, lower left.

That's a good subgestion about off topic, would stop people spamming the various threads there like the count to x thread, and bibinka thread.

I don't much care about whether it's stated or not, depends on whether it's a useful thread or not. Is it the umpteenth thread about the same site being posted? Then it's just spam and there's very little that will convince me to leave it, it's just a derivative of paid advertising.

I was thinking more along the lines of associating emails/ips for established members.

He's data mining, probably to track people.

It's not complicated, every two weeks your activity increases by 14 assuming you've made at least one post.

I rarely moderate posts in the marketplace or it's child boards, besides taking out the trash. I think it's best to let the community police itself in those matters with minimal interference from the moderators.

And yes, it is more or less on topic, certainly not enough to warrant censoring him. Ignore button, learn it, love it, use it.

Stop using that and use the watchlist instead, it has the same functionality, plus the ability to remove unwanted threads.

Whitelisted. Or banned. I don't know which, I just hit a random button. What fun is life without a random element in it?

People who work in the service industry have it tough enough, I'm not going to make them jump through hoops to get their tip.