I'm finding the types of delays in their transactions very suspicious. Ordinarily, when a transaction is sent, it appears immediately and then depending on congestion the confirmations might take up to a few days. However, when they send a transaction it doesn't even broadcast to the blockchain for a few days to even a week. They all say "unassigned" under block number when looking up the transaction ID on the pages they link to, but on literally every other site the transaction ID can't be found.
As best as I can tell, it looks like they are using an internal queue to send through a network that is independently congested, but why would anyone do that? Is it possible for them to send and receive coins that otherwise would have a transaction ID signed? I mean, I know this is possible with an offline network because the blockchain won't know until it is broadcast if the coin has been spent or not. Maybe they are just signing the transactions and putting in a long line on purpose to maintain the illusion that the transactions have been sent?
They claim the delays are due to unconfirmed transactions on the blockchain, but since the transactions have never even reached the blockchain - some not for over a week - how can blockchain congestion be responsible? That makes this even more suspicious.
My last withdraw was set just a day prior to their announcement that they are suspending Bitcoin withdraws until the congestion is resolved, but, lol, at this rate that might as well be never. Still haven't received anything from them though. All I know for sure is that during such delays I have no problems sending Bitcoin normally. It seems to me that if they really weren't running a scam they would have a transparent payment system. Maybe even pay to everyone in a batch whenever they reach their minimum automatically on a daily interval so a single wallet program could do it.
Dear users,
Due to a higher-than-usual network load and increasing number of transactions generated by HashFlare users, our provider block.io struggles to process them without delays.
Bitcoin withdrawals take more and more time for processing and therefore we have to temporarily suspend new BTC withdrawals from HashFlare.
Below is the list of wallets with pending transactions:
https://chain.so/a/qoadp0uhttps://chain.so/a/vzcxn9chttps://chain.so/a/hfpok0yhttps://chain.so/a/-_xhmf4https://chain.so/a/oxxd_ryhttps://chain.so/a/zwmlllihttps://chain.so/a/wjrlb5wIf you can find your transaction in chain.so, it means that it is already in a queue for confirmation.
BTC withdrawals will be re-enabled once block.io resolves the issue on their side, sending all pending transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain.
In case block.io fails to deploy a solution in the nearest future, we will change the processing gateway and restore BTC withdrawals.
Please note that HashFlare customer support cannot cancel or speed up the transaction as it lies beyond our control.
We apologise for possible inconveniences.
Sincerely,
HashFlare.io Team