What happened:
Earlier today, I put in a deposit on the Whirlwind.money mixing service. After the transaction got the required number of confirmations, I requested for a withdrawal from my note to a wallet address with a 0-hour delay. However, it's been 10 hours now, and the transaction hasn't been processed or shown up on the blockchain. There wasn't any warning or indication of the service being down, and I just realized later that there were issues. It turns out other members were also in the same boat, waiting for their money.

Profile Link: whirlwindmoney

Reference Link: [ANN] Whirlwind.money | ⚡No Fee⚡ | Ultimate Privacy | Anonymity Mining 12% APR🔥
Website Link: https://whirlwind.money/
Amount Claimed: 0.004 BTC
Payment Method: bitcoin
Proof of Payment: (TBA)

Additional Notes:
Based on information shared by some members in the ANN thread, it appears that whirlwind hasn't been handling any withdrawals since August 9th (which is almost 5 full days as of the time of writing).

Quote from: sam00 on August 12, 2023, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: fillippone on August 12, 2023, 11:25:02 AM

Please update us on this.
This sounds extremely weird. You do still see the satoshi's in your note, don't you?

No, the Note balance has updatet but there has been no transaction so far. Something seems stuck.

Quote from: TryNinja on August 12, 2023, 11:31:54 AM

My last withdrawal was on the 9th, got the coins.

Looking at an explorer, the last outgoing transactions were made on that date: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qf8h5k6sash8007vpesymxkw2xsg5d0r3j4l5vmcrwpz2pqu66fjstzgd3r

Thank you for that information! As I made my withdrawal on the 11th, I guess that something is stuck :/

Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 05:31:53 AM

I made a withdrawal of 0.025 BTC yesterday afternoon (like you with 0 hours delay) and so far nothing. Did you get the money, or email reply yet?

And there are a few other issues as well. LoyceV summarized it nicely:

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:33:25 AM

So, to summarize (and correct me if I got anything wrong):

The website isn't profitable (yet)
Deposits are working
The website claims to pay a very high 12% APR on deposits
The daily awards aren't always being added
Withdrawals stopped working 5 days ago
The signature campaign payments happen off-chain and thus can't be withdrawn now
User whirlwindmoney hasn't been here for more than a month
Support doesn't respond to inquiries

No matter what the reason is, this looks bad.

This isn't a scam accusation (at least not yet), but a heads-up for the community. Taking everything into account, I believe it's in everyone's best interest to hold off on using the service for the time being. It would be wise to wait until we get some feedback from their representatives and the service gets back on track. I'll keep this thread updated as the situation progresses.