Blender.io - Advanced privacy for Bitcoin transactions (mixer)

[blenderio]

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Their situation seems to be getting from bad to worse if this is true. Just last month, they claimed their wallet (Blender wallet) which i believe is part of them got hacked and 100 BTC was stolen

June 22, 2021 – Non-custodial crypto wallet Blender Wallet has been hacked. The hackers withdrew the amount of 100 BTC in total.

As a non-custodial service, Blender Wallet doesn’t store data about users on servers. The Blender Wallet team has immediately disabled registration and access to the wallets to  protect users’ funds and make sure that newly generated seed phases won’t get in hacker’s hands.The executives promise to cover the losses from Blender Mixer’s reserves. Every user who has lost the money due to the hack will get the exact amount of money on their balance. Further information on compensation will be available at https://blenderwallet.io and @BlenderWalletio_English Telegram channel.

“Over the course of investigation, we promise to figure out how hackers managed to hack a non-custodial solution, as we don’t store any data granting access to users’ balances on our servers. We initiated an internal investigation. The details of how hackers got access to users’ funds are still unclear,” commented the officials. "The whole crypto community, be it a regulated exchange or a mixer, should deploy all the forces against cybercrime, as it's users who get affected in the first place. And as a service we must do whatever we can to protect funds that we've been entrusted with."

This is BlenderWallet server logs, not Blender.io. Blender.io doesn't store any users logs or any other information.

They said that they were in the process of refunding the victims, but if this can happen to a mixer and their wallet. I don't think it gives any much confidence using their services at this point.

[blenderio]

Blender.io switches to the new onion address format (V.3).

Our new domain is blenderiopnzbuvtva6d2ddiedrbf6fbekh5axomzho6wrulowcludad.onion

You can find it in the first message of this thread, and also in the header of our website.

The service is still available by the old link blenderiocpxfema.onion (short address in V.2 format). While using it, you may see a notification about the need to switch to V.3. address format. Click on "Got it" button to continue using the old address.

[sick_world]

I wonder if it's not scary for people to send a large amount of BTC, let's say 2000 to such services?

[LeGaulois]

I wonder if it's not scary for people to send a large amount of BTC, let's say 2000 to such services?

There is nothing to stop a person from making multiple deposits instead to send 2000BTC at once. Especially since some mixers don't have 2000 BTC in stock (the maximum to mix with Blender.io is 2800BTC currently). As a safety precaution, it's also better to do it
When you have over $90 million worth of bitcoins, I don't think it's a problem to spend i.e. $1000 on transaction fees and also the service fees.

[James2022]

Send BTC got 5 confirmations but didn't got pay yet:
https://mempool.space/tx/xxxxxxxxxxxx

And on mixer website show like 0 confirmations
https://blender.io/request/xxxxxxx
https://paste.pics/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I join Telegram group, and seem like we are 4-6 ppl with same problem and no one from stuff answer in last 48h.

I was using there services for more then 1 year.

I hope they will come back and pay us.

https://t.me/Blenderio_English
https://t.me/Blenderio_Russian

UPDATE: Owner in Telegram answered
Hello everyone
The service is working, you will receive your funds
The problem with wrong number of confirmations displayed on the mixer page is being managed
Responding to everyone in pm
Sorry for the inconvenience

UPDATE: Got my BTC.

[coupable]

UPDATE: Owner in Telegram answered
Hello everyone
The service is working, you will receive your funds
The problem with wrong number of confirmations displayed on the mixer page is being managed
Responding to everyone in pm
Sorry for the inconvenience

Glad to know that your problem has been resolve, however i found it horrible how such an error could happen with one of the trusted mixers in the market nowadays. Usually, we prefer working with a mixer who has the fastest algorithm and the fatest response from support as well.
I can imagine for how long your logs were stored in their servers before solving the issue and how you were forced to publish the transaction details after not receiving any answer from the support team. I can also imagine how this could happen with someone ignorant who doesn't know about saving a letter of garantee or the session sode, this could also happen with someone using the service frequently who used not to do so after many successful operations.
I hope this won't happen again .

[blenderio]

The issue has been resolved, it was associated with a rare situation related to the network fee spikes.
All result transfers are prepared and will be sent according to the specified in the mixing delay, which has to be counted out from this morning, not from your payment's first confirmation (as usual).
Sorry for any inconveniences.

[systemcrash12345]

I've used blender.io and ultramixer in the last 2 days.
They both took my coin but never mixed or even refunded
Is there something going on with all the mixer sites?

Ps: yes I've used blender.io before with no problem.

If an Admin will pm maybe we can figure out the problem?

I'm using 2 mobile electrum wallets
 I can su]ly the letter of guarantee tomorrow.

[LeGaulois]

@systemcrash12345

Regarding Blender.io
Your answer is just above your message I guess.

As for Ultramixer, it's a scam
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2827109.msg29058223#msg29058223
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176363.msg52184754#msg52184754

so you can consider your money lost. Besides this, there is nothing wrong with all the mixers. "Business as usual"

[systemcrash12345]

Is this the correct place to try to reach out to blender.io? There is no support email or phone number. And I have no idea what to do with "Service address: 15PggTG7YhJKiE6B16vkKzA1YDTZipXEX4"

[LeGaulois]

@systemcrash12345

RE:

The person logs in regularly on the forum, but in my opinion, you would get a quicker response by email (sorry I've never seen a mixer with a phone number for the support, but it could be something fun).

Blender.io's email is clearly visible on their website here https://blender.io/contacts.
Disable Javascript if you see something like "email protected".
Or if you have a Telegram account, there are 2 channels (listed on the same page)

The BTC address you posted won't be useful to you.

[blenderio]

You can easily contact us via Telegram or e-mail. Here are our contacts:
https://t.me/Blenderio_English
https://t.me/Blenderio_Russian
blenderio@tuta.io

[blenderio]

Good news!

Blenderio mixer has a Telegram bot now.
It allows you to quickly create new mixings and conveniently follow its' statuses.
Link to the bot @madeamaze_bot

Pay attention! Any other bot, including those that contain words "blender", "blenderio" in its names, are scam and do not belong to the Blenderio mixer team.

[dkbit98]

Blenderio mixer has a Telegram bot now.
It allows you to quickly create new mixings and conveniently follow its' statuses.

I don't think that using telegram for mixing bitcoins is a good idea.
In addition to many scams and fake accounts in telegram, you are basically connecting your phone number and your locations with specific bitcoin addresses and transactions.
Some people don't care to research, but Telegram servers are holding all information, ALL chats and groups are public and not encrypted in any way... except maybe separate secret chat between mobile devices.

[blenderio]

Blenderio mixer has a Telegram bot now.
It allows you to quickly create new mixings and conveniently follow its' statuses.

I don't think that using telegram for mixing bitcoins is a good idea.
In addition to many scams and fake accounts in telegram, you are basically connecting your phone number and your locations with specific bitcoin addresses and transactions.
Some people don't care to research, but Telegram servers are holding all information, ALL chats and groups are public and not encrypted in any way... except maybe separate secret chat between mobile devices.

We recommend to use rented phone number for these purposes, NOT your personal account.

[blenderio]

Services blender.io and blenderwallet.io are closed for maintenance. Completion dates for technical work will be announced later.
Your funds in Blender Wallet are safe. You can wait for the service to open or access them with a mnemonic and passphrase in the Electrum wallet or any other compatible wallet.
For those who have not received mixing results, they will be sent when the service starts.
We apologize for the inconvenience, please do not worry, the services will be resumed in the near future