Quote from: davout on December 04, 2013, 02:48:19 PM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on December 04, 2013, 11:50:35 AM

So I sent a few btc to friends and family early in Instawallet days to spread the word, they are now looking for those coins.

What do we need to do to recover them?

thanks davout

Hello

I'm afraid it's too late to file a claim, the claims submission was possible for three months with a deadline in July.
There was a detailed explanation of the whys and hows of the claims process (and more specifically why there had to be a deadline) posted in this thread, it might be a little hard to find buried in the 40 pages of this thread.

Kind regards
David

Any ethical person and/or business would honour legitimate requests, and the bitcoins are not legally yours. With this statement, you effectively ruin your reputation in the community.

The right thing to do is to review the requests and see what you can do to the best of your abilities, according to your records and the information given. I'm sure the victims (I will call them that since this is theft) would be happy to pay a premium to have the case solved.

If you piss somebody off enough, I would not be you at the receiving end of the actions that they may take themselves, or have somebody take on their behalf.

Act ethically and do the right thing, pointing to formalities is the very wrong thing to do, and it is equal to outright theft, and should be handled by law enforcement in a proper manner.