...and post your wallet URL publicly, boo.
Bingo! That may explain why there are two other claims against one of my wallets, being that that's exactly what I did, but done so not realizing the consequence assuming IW was closed and that I had just prior to doing such submitted three claims, with the disclosed url one being one of them.
But, that doesn't explain why my claim on said wallet wasn't included among the other two, let alone why I was never notified about the status about any of the three claims I submitted, in spite of the fact that I made sure I was one of the early submitters, being that two of the wallets contained well over the 50 BTC limit that would take longer to process, all according to the principles at InsatWallet. Last week, I once again resubmitted the two larger wallets, but to date nary a word as to how its proceeding. In re. the smaller wallet that has two other claims against it, I was not able to do anything (read only) when I revisit its URL, assuming since nothing has changed during previous visits, it's still up for review and somehow I'm included as one of the claimants, being the earliest, filing in mid-April, 2013.
For the record, I raised/echoed a concern just prior to the InstaWallet hack due to the amount of BTC I entrusted with them, but was rest assured that all was well, then shortly thereafter, poof! it was gone.
I first came to this thread holding my tongue, but soon started with the vitriol attacks after witnessing that dozens of calls by myself, among others, for the principles of IW to provide a police report went unaddressed. Finally, one was offered up and provided in the French section of this forum, although Boussac created THIS very thread you're reading to provide to us all relevant information as to what's going on, how to proceed during the claim process, etc. The sole purposed of starting that thread in the French section of this forum was to display the police report, of which was in French, understandably, but the post had to be translated and migrated to this thread by some other Bitcoiner, and NOT by a single principle of InstaWallet. Meanwhile, at the time, Davout was nowhere to be found, not having logged in for an extended period of time, in spite of being a moderator of this very forum, albeit probably not paid for said services at the time, but is definitely being paid now by theymos, the admin of this forum, from donated and advertising monies (I have no other reason for including theymos' name in this fiasco). Due to a post I quoted a few posts up, I lower my tone in hope that that would not hinder me in recovering my bitcoins held in three wallets and are still in InstaWallet's control, and on their books, as far as I can ascertain according to the "block chain".
It has been proven that I've been put on at least two InstaWallet's principles ignore lists on this forum, one of which from the very get-go of my posting in this thread, among a couple others. The couple times I've been addressed, is because some other quoted my posts of which was read and couldn't be ignored due to them not being on their ignore list. The same may prove true with this particular post. In fact, if you look at just the last couple pages, max, leading up to this post, none of my posts have been addressed in any capacity by either Davout or Boussac, hence probably still being on ignore, of which Boussac IS on record in stating such that I am.
To date, I have yet to receive a single PM or an email, let alone a helpful post (I may be mistaken with the latter, so please forgive if I am), from anybody at InstaWallet in reference to my three claims, of which now is worth over $800K at today's exchange rate.
Another important concern that even though has been mentioned by at least Boussac, albeit never produced, is exactly what entity conducted the independent audit of IW's database after the attack, and at what point was said audit taken? We already know that a police report was filed at the onset of the attack, according to the documents presented to us, but they weren't shared till a much later date in a very off-handed way.
Now, we learn that not one, but at least two people once working at InstaWallet are no longer employed there. Probably not related at all to what has transpired at Camp InstaWallet at the start of Q2, 2013, but still raises an alarm, at least in my eyes.
Prior to the hack, everybody who had a wallet on InstaWallet was shown a balance of zero when they visited their wallets via their URL key (I believe that's what they meant when they used the word key, although I've yet to find its correct definition even though I've personally asked at least once, seriously not knowing what was meant by the word "key"). When one transferred BTC from their wallet to some other, according to the "block chain" an intermediary address was used. Sometimes, according to the "block chain" a funded wallet was shown to have a zero balance, and only funded when another withdraw transaction was needed, before reverting back to zero, showing the expected balance being stored in a newly created wallet by InstaWallet.
After the hack, three separate wallets were created acting as cold storage for InstaWallet, Bitcoin-Central and some other entity, perhaps it was Paymium, where they resided for a time. Later, one of the wallets was broken up into 1000 BTC wallets around the time the first claim payouts were sent out. I was relieved to learn that at least one Principle of InstaWallet, Davout, was paid his claim in a timely manner, I'm sure so was he, as shown via a tx that included SatoshiDice transactions.
In closing, let's recap. At least two guys are no longer employed at InstaWallet, Davout, who plays SatoshiDice was absent during the onset of the hack, claims are still outstanding, and more than enough funds are still available, according to my calculations, to pay out my 1,123+ BTC claims. Furthermore, Boussac is on record in stating that there were ~3M funded wallets that needed to be sorted through, hence one reason for the 90 day delay in them starting the repayment process. I haven't counted them, but what I've seen on the ~half-dozen payout txs, the total amount doesn't even approach 10,000, let alone 3 million. See for yourselves:
https://blockchain.info/tx/998d15b620272eb71f48cbfb9695d2a2d8a42738b62e7e348611e504acc4baa6https://blockchain.info/tx/0624989adc022305527674afa44672e736fabf8e06910850a66f7de3a3381addhttps://blockchain.info/tx/490a3ec2fb1bdb8a6f8fdcdba66376afdc6519f6560ac14c96452f1c6a86aad4https://blockchain.info/tx/3f0f291a2807a47566e948a162d8db0bf80dc459435d6e1c9843b656c451ec04https://blockchain.info/tx/ab6bcf2f9cb4019fae464a9c5adc741403deb163faae93c12272979ea99dca6ahttps://blockchain.info/tx/6342536a1b44ebbc08126631b1a999e08ee7685ad38502d40edbe2ff7e355865https://blockchain.info/tx/0c3b8530af20f5c67a1ff7c1a7e7fd3cacb7ea6b44faa416beaeb0f2c5108f8ahttps://blockchain.info/tx/ad80f37d0c494f513734103882a2de1b909f23c0608058ee9da8e3f004d22c5dAccording to the final tx above, the following address containing ~2687 BTC
https://blockchain.info/address/19qB4iJAs4BYwYfXzWrWmTiSAnwsHCufDV has been moved a couple times prior to splitting up into smaller and smaller segments, but looks like it's still controlled by InstaWallet. Strange that they have such a large amount of bitcoins still available, and even after returning my ~$800K claims, they'll still have over a million dollars of which belongs to them, sans any other outstanding claims, of which would be much smaller than mine.
Bruno Kucinskas
