Hey all,
As many of you were aware, BitInstants website was down for roughly the past 24 hours. The site is now back online and fully operational.
We apologize for the lack of communication during the downtime and much thanks for your patience. We had discovered an issue which required some changes to the site and we had to take the live site down to make these updates. There was no hack or anything nefarious.
During the downtime we also decided to remove Coinapult as an outbound payment option. We hope to add it again in the near future because we know it makes it very convenient to acquire Bitcoins, but we have to be very careful about our AML compliance. Coinapult will need some adjustments before we can re-connect it. Coinapult is still live and running, but we cant connect it with BitInstant for the time being.
We saw that some people speculated that there was a connection between the site downtime and Roger Ver being detaining in Macaus airport. They are totally unrelated (though it makes for a great conspiracy theory) the Macau airport just got mad because the Japanese airport didnt stamp his passport correctly, so now hes being held until he can fly back to Japan to re-stamp the passport (gotta love bureaucrats!)
Anyway, were back in business. Onward!
-The BitInstant Team