Quote from: turtlehurricane on May 04, 2014, 06:50:55 PM

Without any proof you are going to have a very hard time recovering your coins.

Regardless, I will be writing an article today about this on The Cryptocurrency Times (which I own), and this will give it more publicity. Is there anything you want me to add besides what was written here?

Let's see if the following illustrates what I've been trying to express.

https://www.instawallet.org/w/sMceOus2wYrDVAHxA5BssBwB7kgDqC9r4Q <-- This URL was the only one of the three claims that I submitted that included a bitcoin wallet address, namely 1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH. At first, it too didn't have an address associated with the other two URLs that I put in a claim for, but somebody at InstaWallet, probably davout, forgot that I publicly declared said wallet during the time frame that others were expressing a grave concern about InstaWallet, thus only that URL finally included said wallet address as seen here: https://www.instawallet.org/w/sMceOus2wYrDVAHxA5BssBwB7kgDqC9r4Q.

Note the two other claims on this wallet, none of which were mine, after I submitted my claims. Also note that the first claim was made the day after davout returned to this forum after being absent for almost a month.

I happened to stumble upon the followed thread via a search at the time when I, too, notice an anomaly I never seen before on all three wallets, offering up the lesser funded wallet as an example of what was taking place.

Quote from: davout on March 17, 2013, 12:04:21 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on March 16, 2013, 11:34:03 PM

I like IW, but something has changed recently and I can't put my finger on it.

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~Bruno K~

PS: To be clear, the wallet address is 1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH

Dear Bruno,

Instawallet has always worked like a shared wallet, nothing has ever changed in this respect.

The fact you used to see coins remain at the deposit address simply means that :
- there used to be less coin turnover,
- the cold storage was less used,
- any combination of the previous reasons.

Some stuff does change though, you used to get your transaction ID back immediately when sending coins, that's not the case anymore, sends are now asynchronously handled by a background worker. That's much more secure in terms of potential race conditions, much more robust in terms of infrastructure, much more maintenable (since now I can simply stop the worker, do some work on bitcoind and switch it back on).

The traffic also increases a lot, to give you an idea, our average weekly turnover is around 10kBTC in, and 10kBTC out, it recently peaked at around 50kBTC/week.

Your wallet has exactly the amount you expect to be available, you can't rely on blockchain.info to tell you how much is available in an account on a shared wallet.

This is how your balance is calculated :

Hope it's clearer

Quick aside: I just now recalled that I had another InstaWallet account containing about a dozen bitcoins, but there's no way I can prove it because the URL I bookmarked was on my old laptop that I no longer have, hence now a lost, but 100% not concerned about it at this speaking since I lost all interest in it. I guess I was so caught up with the lesser funded wallet I named publicly prior to the "hack" and the two larger wallets, I somehow spaced-off the other wallet till now, my memory jogged upon rereading the quote.

Let's take a quick look at my last transaction from the 1Jpp... wallet.

https://blockchain.info/address/1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH

https://blockchain.info/tx/cb32e5147c0510a3423a9b9c57a90fa949a3960422563bf8ade5a621a0939cec

The last transaction from the 1Jpp... wallet was to a fellow Bitcoiner to pay out a bounty: https://blockchain.info/tx/cb32e5147c0510a3423a9b9c57a90fa949a3960422563bf8ade5a621a0939cec

I referred to it as a bounty above, but probably considered a contest and basically the same thing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=132012

The 0.105 BTC bounty was paid here (surprised to see he's letting it sit): https://blockchain.info/address/13wVc8gyoBSeTGmc7Abz3xtJ5QYRjWenTC

I still haven't figured out the hops made between 1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH and 13wVc8gyoBSeTGmc7Abz3xtJ5QYRjWenTC, for the transactions just don't make any sense, and you'll soon see that the .105 BTC was never deducted from the 0.94BTC.

But, let's together try to track down where the 0.835 BTC went to, since 1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH showed 0 BTC, hence being in a "shared wallet" davout mentioned above.

First hop was the first transaction in this wallet: https://blockchain.info/address/115gPsCmizwGfAHhGAKyQoQujCAMQFZAmy having this tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/cb32e5147c0510a3423a9b9c57a90fa949a3960422563bf8ade5a621a0939cec

This was 11 days prior to the "hack" on April 1, 2013. So far, no problem, for it's a "shared wallet" in InstaWallet's control. One would be hard-pressed to declare otherwise, ergo 115gPsCmizwGfAHhGAKyQoQujCAMQFZAmy was/is controlled by InstaWallet.

The second transaction consisting of 1.496 BTC took place on April 3, 2013 as seen in this tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/2aee04434e088353f936dbccf235d56c702a88a2c36cecc7659f97226bb024c7

What's odd with the above is that Paymium put all of InstaWallet and Bitcoin-Central's BTC into one wallet on April 1, 2013: https://blockchain.info/address/1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy

How the fuck did they not include the one wallet that held my 0.835 BTC in the 1LrPY... bitcoin wallet?

https://blockchain.info/tx/6f54104d6d02e3777944eb3bee397d44958e1f4e6160cd68b54591e4257798e6

The next time my 0.835 BTC was moved (above tx) was on August 28, 2013, to the following wallet: 1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk. The 1LrPY... wallet only had 4 transactions during its lifetime, 2 of which involved my bitcoins, of which is totally undisputed.

Note: The transactions were all for 0.94 BTC even though my last balance was for sure 0.835 BTC as seen here: https://www.instawallet.org/w/sMceOus2wYrDVAHxA5BssBwB7kgDqC9r4Q

It's not even showing the bounty amount I paid out and is documented (scroll up a tad). Either way, unless one can prove otherwise, 0.94 BTC and 0.835 BTC can be considered interchangeable.

I just now proved that the 1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk bitcoin wallet belongs to Paymium/InstaWallet as well, so let's see when it was first funded.

https://blockchain.info/address/1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk?offset=150&filter=0

It looks like it was created/funded on 2013-04-20 21:04:47 as seen in this tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/2b286901c3876b9ac0a537e1915194bc6759850c2e05448cfd21fc31937e2601

This is really odd on three fronts.

First, this is InstaWallet's bitcoin address since it will eventually contain my 0.835 BTC (0.94 according to their accounting practices, for remember I paid out 0.105 on 2013-03-20 01:16:50 as seen here: https://blockchain.info/address/13wVc8gyoBSeTGmc7Abz3xtJ5QYRjWenTC). Looks like davout and co. were doing some fancy accounting prior to the "hack".

Second, take a look again at the first transaction taking place in this weird wallet when InstaWallet and Bitcoin-Central owned by Paymium had yet to reunited BTC's with their former owners: https://blockchain.info/tx/2b286901c3876b9ac0a537e1915194bc6759850c2e05448cfd21fc31937e2601

Note the 1,089.30685265 BTC transfer from https://blockchain.info/address/1LgR2RL46U8icmxkx3PzY2qS98fc8YAXKb. That's damn near the 1,132 BTC that InstaWallet is so kind in keeping warm for me. They're the bestest!

Finally, more info on the 1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk wallet:

Quote from: twmz on August 15, 2013, 12:12:39 PM

Quote from: willinliv on August 15, 2013, 10:00:30 AM

Quote from: Cosmos on August 15, 2013, 01:22:54 AM

What a super luckout as a few blocks below/above that one seems to be normal. I shat a brick when I saw my reward 2x normal! Cheesy

*Edit, looks like BTCGuild, just got a whopping tx fee bonus also! https://blockchain.info/block-index/406363/000000000000003d318decf57bb24661bd24a65c90ed1399664fb84b58403908

Does anybody know of a place for stats listing top transaction fees? - I wanted to see if we were particurly lucky in this respect

This particular person has a badly configured bitcoin client. They have a ton on transactions in the past couple days with massive fees:

https://blockchain.info/address/1MsmThtteKPu6fWxwn2SMDEnmJex3vKSBk

I contend that the time became ripe to shut the InstaWallet bitch down via a "hack" during the time davout announced on this forum that he was going to be outta pocket for a few days, but not returning till near a month later. I further contend that davout eyed my bitcoins, now sitting in one of his bitcoin wallets, as an easy take.

This is davout's wallet: https://blockchain.info/address/16d1yGrEDqSY1xhCnAUWrkahGY2mkWdAYk. It obtained exactly 1,029.24869663 via this tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/63718e56cfe440e3e9005379505f70790dace8b7d5151502b90c376e02b91bbb.

Sans payments from theymos acting as staff on this forum, davout had no source of income during the downtime of InstaWallet and Bitcoin-Central.

Paymium received a VC from Gilitt to a tune of $400K USD, of which was used to fund 4 failed businesses and Bitcoin-Central that's an exchange serving the European theatre with a limited customer base.

Hope the above adds to your story. BTW, a bigger story consists of a known paedo- running to fill a vacant board seat on The Bitcoin Foundation. Do you have the balls to call Brock Pierce out, or you, too, will opt to give him a free ride (seriously, no pun intended, opting to not change the wording after I penned it).

At least humor me and watch the video: http://web.archive.org/web/20060208124607/http://www.fuckedcompany.com/den/

~Bruno Kucinskas