Hey guys,
Just tried my hand at my first bitcoin purchase and transfer. I had set up an instawallet from a link in the hidden wiki since it seemed that according to the site verifications everything was up and running. I transferred the .526 btc to the wallet from MTGox about 4 hours ago... I've looked at the wallet multiple times, checked, rechecked, and tripple checked I put in all the right addresses, and even checked the blockchain to see what was going on.
https://blockchain.info/address/1Dg4LGwMdLrKix6yzQ9n9YwYu2jbbCUcwrAt the time of this posting, we're looking at 35 confirmations of my transaction and yet my wallet still shows as empty. Upon further research, I discovered instawallet.org and noticed the site had been shut down. My big concern is that I have just sent my coins to a company that no longer operates, but for some reason still leaves their tor network site up and running to create new wallets. Did I just blow my first bitcoin experience by basically giving someone free money that I'll never see again? If I'll never see the funds because of Instawallet closing on the main web, is there a way to recover them through some kind of fraud claim through MTGox? Can Instawallet help?
I feel like a dolt because I had read that last month IW was hacked, but from everything I looked at on tor it seemed that they had restored service and were operating normally now. I had planned to only have the funds in there for a matter of seconds, but yet it seems from my end they never even got in the wallet for that.
Can anyone help me out here?