Looks like a fairly standard "Take the wallets and run!" inside job.
If I were davout, I would be very tempted to do the same thing, knowing that the coins deposited on the sites I ran were rocketing up in value every single day.
Even modest deposits of 10'000 BTC would be worth over $1M today :O
I think this will happen more and more as the price keeps going up. Site admins simply can't be trusted with your coins.
How is that possible though? I thought the URls were strong enough to sustain brute force attacks and were not listed in instawallet itself? |
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So do we think it is only affecting chrome users or is this just speculation?
Aside from that there is no news is there?
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The two large transactions to address 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy from Instawallet Cold Storage now have 1 confirmation each.
First one took 299 minutes to confirm, second one took 296 minutes.
EDIT: Both now have 2 confirmations.
Good or bad? If we are to believe that 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy belongs to Instawallet/Bitcoin-Central then good. Do you believe it? |
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The two large transactions to address 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy from Instawallet Cold Storage now have 1 confirmation each.
First one took 299 minutes to confirm, second one took 296 minutes.
EDIT: Both now have 2 confirmations.
Good or bad? |
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MtGox also seems to consider adding litecoins soon.
I hope it crashes and becomes irrelevant before they go through with it.
Nothing against alternative cryptocurrencies, but they should offer significant differences to Bitcoin.
Where's that info from? Gibberish to me mate.  |
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MtGox also seems to consider adding litecoins soon.
I hope it crashes and becomes irrelevant before they go through with it.
Nothing against alternative cryptocurrencies, but they should offer significant differences to Bitcoin.
Where's that info from? |
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I dipped into the LTC market last night at .8 Pretty pleased with 100% return in 24 hours. |
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I made two withdrawals from jnstawallet 2 nights ago around 1am GMT. The first one did not show up but the second one did. I messages Davout about the first one not showing up and I also emailed support at instawallet. I wasn't worried as it actually happened last time I withdrew money from them too. That took 24 hours. I also thought that as it was a bank holiday there might be a delay in support.
If this money was sent should I be sure to receive this whatever happens with the rest of instawallets issues?
So in regards to this, without being too technical. Why would a transaction take two days to confirm? Is it something to do with instawallet being free? |
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They posted in the Bitcoin-Central thread that all user funds (BTC and Euro) were safe.
They didn't mention instawallet though.  Also, some people have suggested that if you had hacked the website you could put a web page saying all was good relatively easily. It would be nice to hear from Davout. I believe he is instawallet staff |
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The last few posts made no sense to me at all. Does it look good or bad? |
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Since they are under the same company, their liability to you and to other BTC-central customer should be same and treated equally. Hope this calms you a little bit. Thanks mate. Appreciate it. |
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I made two withdrawals from jnstawallet 2 nights ago around 1am GMT. The first one did not show up but the second one did. I messages Davout about the first one not showing up and I also emailed support at instawallet. I wasn't worried as it actually happened last time I withdrew money from them too. That took 24 hours. I also thought that as it was a bank holiday there might be a delay in support.
If this money was sent should I be sure to receive this whatever happens with the rest of instawallets issues?
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It sounds like you are one lucky sunuvabitch, steelboy.
The impression I get is that your bitcoin holdings were all in Instawallet, and extensive.
Don't do that.
Your impressions are correct. I know I shouldn't have but I am working on it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164097.0I'm still not completely calm, I don't like the way they haven't mentioned instawallet customers |
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They sure kept us in a state of panic for a while there! Glad to see it's all working out fine [Apr-1 10:30 CET] Bitcoin-Central and Paytunia update: Our customer's bitcoins and euros are safe and will not be affected by the security breach. We have taken the websites off-line for proper investigation.
The address 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy is under our exclusive control.
We thank you for your patience and will provide updates exclusively on this page as they come in. We are committed to resuming service as soon as possible. Expect normal service to resume within 48 hours.
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Deep breath ...
What's the site? It's showing up on https://bitcoin-central.net/So far it hasn't appeared on Paytunia and Instawallet yet, but as the Instawallet transaction was to the same address I can only assume that those funds are safe as well. They sure kept us in a state of panic for a while there! Glad to see it's all working out fine [Apr-1 10:30 CET] Bitcoin-Central and Paytunia update: Our customer's bitcoins and euros are safe and will not be affected by the security breach. We have taken the websites off-line for proper investigation.
The address 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy is under our exclusive control.
We thank you for your patience and will provide updates exclusively on this page as they come in. We are committed to resuming service as soon as possible. Expect normal service to resume within 48 hours.
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Deep breath ...
What's the site? It's showing up on https://bitcoin-central.net/So far it hasn't appeared on Paytunia and Instawallet yet, but as the Instawallet transaction was to the same address I can only assume that those funds are safe as well. I hope so. I really do. |
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Does that include instawallet?
And is this user reliable?
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Unless of course this is their sick april fools day joke
I've always said nothing could offend me when it comes to jokes. I might have been wrong. |
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can't you guys tell if your bitcoins were sucked dry via blockexplorer? If not then it's no biggie.. .but if for some idiotic reason you kept 2000 bitcoins there and now blockexplorer is saying they are not there anymore than you have a problem.
What do you need to check this? I only have the URLSs i do not have the address related to that, can i do anything? |
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But there were 3.5million wallets. Is it just limited to 3000?
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this doesn't sound good at all.
Literally shitting myself |
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