Someone on HN pointed out that the transfer happened an hour or two before the site went down. Can anyone confirm this? It looks like the transfer happened about an hour before *this thread* appeared, but did this thread start immediately after the site came down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475389I made the thread after I tried to access my Instawallet and couldn't. I have no idea when it went down.
Bitcoin Central has been failing to process transactions since 5PM CET (which is 6 hours ago at the moment of writing) and went to 'Down for maintenance'-mode 2 hours later. It seems the transaction was indeed done well
before it went down, roughly when they stopped processing transactions on BTCentral.
Signing a message with 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy would be appropriate... also, a message at a website which may be compromised doesn't guarantee much IMO.
I hardly think a hacker would take the time to post such a message after he has looted 4 million worth of USD. I don't really see the added value. Would it serve as a convincer to miners that are currently not adding it to the blocks? I doubt miners would decide based upon a post like that - seeing as the transaction fee is so huge, the reason it hasn't been added to a block can hardly be a collective moral decision of miners.