Online Wallet Scams (Post the names/urls of sites that may have scammed you!)

[Habeler876]

I heard MT Gox scammed a few people

Too soon?

Not really an online wallet, though. Although, it did seem like quite a few people did use them as a wallet, mining address, etc. Pretty crazy. I would have thought after so many scams by centralized bitcoin services, that so many people wouldn't have trusted an exchange to be a wallet service... but knowing this community, this will only continue....

I hear people are still mining to them and some pools had to block the addresses

And someone on reddit just sent mtgox 800 btc

Unbelievable. A trustless, decentralized currency, and people became so used to sending their coins to a centralized exchange for storage that this is still happening! Quite unnerving.... 

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[CEG5952]

I lost some at Instawallet, but AFAIK, that wasn't a scam and was a legit hack. I just didn't bother to recover my funds, since it was so little at the time. It was less then 0.1 BTC and they were not worth what they are now, so I didn't bother.

[Nagato4]

I heard MT Gox scammed a few people

Too soon?

Not really an online wallet, though. Although, it did seem like quite a few people did use them as a wallet, mining address, etc. Pretty crazy. I would have thought after so many scams by centralized bitcoin services, that so many people wouldn't have trusted an exchange to be a wallet service... but knowing this community, this will only continue....

I hear people are still mining to them and some pools had to block the addresses

And someone on reddit just sent mtgox 800 btc

Unbelievable. A trustless, decentralized currency, and people became so used to sending their coins to a centralized exchange for storage that this is still happening! Quite unnerving.... 

TBH, I can't really understand why some bitcoiners want to have a "bitcoin bank", when the most important point of bitcoin is decentralization.