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WARNING! Do not use that address!
This is a scammer address that tries to impersonate Bitcoin Fog services and steal your Bitcoins.

If you have sent any money using that address, they are most likely lost.
That address is not real Bitcoin Fog, it is a scammer that have set up a service that tries to look like legitimate Bitcoin Fog.

The ONLY real address is http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion.


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Seeing how this is a new account yet again, this seems too much like an anonymous bashing campaign again, but if you are a legitimate user, what is your username on the service? We haven't received any complaints for that exact amount lately, and we have been answering to messages regarding the outages which happened during these latest delays.


Surely you must be joking. Or you do not do any serious mixing and maybe just experimenting with it for fun?
Blockchain.info is a public company with easily identifiable members and staff. If any authority will ever want to find information about your money, they will simply go to the staff members who will have no choice but to reveal information about you, and will have no right to reveal to you that they have been contacted by the authority, due to a gag order.

We have finally been able to resolve all the technical issues. We know there have been a lot of delays and we are sorry for the inconvenience. Ultimately this comes as a cost for running our service at the level of anonymity that we have.
As of now both deposits, withdrawals and the mixing process are all working as expected.

As an apology we have now removed all fees of our service, no matter the mixing amount, for the next 2 weeks.


We have never selectively scammed anyone.
At a certain point it was obvious that someone (likely the the competition) was runing a badmouthing campaign against us which could be easily seen as the messages were posted during a specific period of time from mostly new accounts, and following the same language patterns even in some cases. Some of the competition are obviously spending a lot of money on their own advertising (which is likely why you might think they are more "reputable"), and badmouthing the oldest running mixed is easily a good way to do that too.

We have always put most of our resources into making the service itself as stable and more importantly as secure as possible (which is evident by the lack of hacks for such long time period), and not into advertising. For this we are recognized by our users who judge by facts and experience and not by paid advertisements or fake messages from new internet accounts.

We have had our share of problems with delays and downtimes (like most services though), but we have not scammed anyone. There would not be any point to stay operational for years just to make some small money on scamming individual clients.



In either way are sincerely sorry for such long downtime and hope the free mixing period can return some of your losses.

We currently experience outages related to a hardware failure. Sorry for this inconvenience, we are working on getting the service back online as soon as possible.

We have been working during this time on developing some new code that was required to deal with the issues, and at this time we are happy to report that the system has been operating normally for a number of hours and by now the backlog is resolved and all scheduled withdrawals should have been paid out.

Yes, we deeply apologize, as it turns out there are still issues with some payouts being delayed since the last maintenance. We are working right now to resolve this.

The issues with the main website are now fully resolved. The service is accessible through the real url fogcore5n3ov3tui.onion and all operations are active.
We are still working on the gateway issue.

Thank you for reporting the gateway issue. We shall see what the problem is.
Also unfortunately today some of you may have noticed a downtime, we do have technical issues with our connection for the real server, it's unavailable for the time being.
We are working on it and shall report here when the problems are resolved.

Yes, we are back and have been for about a day.
We have been monitoring situation and it's working more stable now.
All the funds and accounts are intact, the system is back into normal operating mode.

It sounds like you have misplaced your password or have been a victim to either phishing site or a dictionary attack which we have been under for a while now. (They are trying specific accounts and passwords, so they have some kind of leaked database from another service, and if you have a password on Fog which is the same as a password on some other service, you might be vulnerable.)

Unfortunately we don't have a proper way to restore a password, since we cannot trust the identity of the users who claim owning accounts to which they don't have passwords. This is not only matter of money security, this is a matter of personal security. If we were to reveal any account information to any unauthorized party, people might go to jail.
Bitcoin Fog is the highest possible anonymity outpost in the Bitcoin world, it's not for people that just joke around with their money, it's for people who have real problems with the law and we provide them the best possible service, and highest possible anonymity.
The password can't simply "stop working". We have checked the system countless amount of times and we know it works for everybody else. If you were the owner and knew the password, you could still login.
This is a limitation of our service, but we do warn about this on the registration page and the change password page.

The reason is simple - Fog is not your e-mail account, it's one of the few places in the Bitcoin world where anonymity is still the first priority. The only thing we have is trust. And we're not winning any trust by giving into some ransom requests that you are going to post something in this topic. If you do try to convince anyone we are scammers, which we are most definitely not, that's unfortunate, but it will be more unfortunate if we give in and compromise the anonymity, the biggest purpose with our service. Because that will send a clear message to the authorities on instructions on how to get anyone's account information and/or access, "just post some bad talk in the forums so they'll be afraid for their profits".

If you really are the real owner and have misplaced your password, we're sorry but there is nothing we can do about it. Please be more careful with your credentials, we do warn about this extensively on the website.

We currently experience technical difficulties and the service is offline. To our best knowledge the accounts and funds are safe and we should be back within a day. We shall update.

The process is now complete, all systems returned to normal operation.
Sorry for taking this long, but given the specifics of our service and the dangers we have to face, we have to take all the necessary precautions and that takes time. Thank you all for your patience.

We have received information about suspicious activity by our hosting provider. In order to prevent any information being seized we had to shut down all servers activating encryption and are now in the process of moving to the backup server. Currently all services are inaccessible. Sorry for the inconvenience, we estimate the works being complete within 48 hours.

And it just so happens that all 3 people that discuss these scam allegations have very recent registration dates and basically post only in this topic? And even use the same styling, usage of bold text etc... Or just look at the last 3 post timestamps... It's pretty obvious that it's you "davewalberg".
For the fun of it, is that your real name? In numerous messages to our support you have stated that it is. You have also tried to pretend to be journalists, doctors, politicians, members of russian mafia, etc... If you  have lied about that, what else have you lied about? Perhaps about being the owner of the alleged account? There is no trusting you now even if we were first to assume there was some truth to your allegations. You seem to be a regular internet troll/extortionist, if not worse. You shall not receive any information from us...
Sorry for being off-topic, we would just like to establish once and for all the Bitcoin Fog does not respond to threats or extortion. If you keep your password safe, none of your account information will be disclosed to anyone from now on.

Also note that this user has created 30+ different accounts on our own service, it would not surprise us if he goes on to register 30+ new forum accounts to post things about us as well.

You are clearly missing the fast that during the years of operation we have managed to keep everybody's money and keep the service alive. We have had numerous issues with delays due to our system prioritizing security and locking down sometimes too often, but we have never once "keep somebody's money" or stolen it from them.


This is simply not true. We know our password system works because it works for thousands of users with no issues. If you have misplased your password that's unfortunately your own fault, we clearly state that as an anonymous service we don't have any proper ways of retrieving it. After the years of dedication to think that we would risk it all to get the small amount you are claiming we have taken from you, is preposterous.

Our main concern is the privacy and anonymity. You have already spammed our support page with your messages claiming we steal somebody's money. Now you are trying to do the same on the forum. Our users trust us because they know we will not reveal their information to ANY interested parties and that their history will not be revealed. To ensure that continues to be the case we need to make statement here that no amount of forum posts or spam messages will make us go against our policies. No authority or other party should get the idea that we can be extorted by posting some hateful forum posts to reveal any information about our clients.

We have given the system a thorough check up and it seems that the issues are resolved once again. Running smooth for the last two days. All new transactions should have been running completely on time.
We are STILL responding to many support messges from the last week, as we haven't been able to process them all yet.
If you are one of those who still have their money delayed from those earlier support message, this is very unfortunate and we are working on resolving it, but you can at least know that we shall return everything in the end. Despite all the delays, our service has never lost any users' funds and we intend to keep it that way.

And once again big number of deposits have caused delays in our service.
We have no excuse really, instead still working on improving it and making sure our security layer does not cause these delays in the future, that it can handle larger and larger number of users.
Currently everything is running on schedule.

As for
We would personally never use them as the only step in the washing. Blockchain is a public company and is required by law to comply with anti- money laundering laws, as well as revealing user information and logs, should the law require that.

Naturally we have paused the deleting of the logs for this time period, since we have created this mess we must somehow be able to figure it out.
Also every transaction that has been locked is saved indefinitely so we should be able to unfreeze it regardless of the log status.
No user should "give up", please contact us if anything is missing still, preferably on the service and your money shall of course be returned. To take someone else's money is not something we like to do and it's the principle we have been operating with for all these years.

As you might have noticed we have had a lot of withdrawal issues lately. From the very start our system has several security mechanisms which monitor the current situation and try to lock access to both money and information in case any threat is detected. Some of you have experienced problems with this in the past as well, the system was reacting on more things than it should have been.

Lately the Transaction Malleability has been causing a lot of problems for many Bitcoin services. And even though our software could actually handle this, the ongoing DoS attack was more than enough to trigger the locking mechanism.

As a result we have had a number of transactions which were locked and encrypted wallets before they got a chance to be sent to the network. We had to decrypt and analyze those wallets first to make the transactions broadcast again. This is exactly what the system is supposed to do: block and freeze transactions if there is anything shady about them.

At this time all the issues are resolved and the system is actually adjusted in a way that malled transactions do not trigger it any longer.

However some trasnactions are still locked, we know this and working as fast as we can with the individual users to release those transactions. In the end all the money will be returned of course.

We apologize for all affected users.

There is no "run" of any kind, the users that have received their funds now can confirm this. But the sheer volume of requests we have received is so big that it takes time to through them all, since usually we don't get that many requests.

We acknowledge the problem and shall resolve this matter with any users involved (please contact us on the Fog). If there were any unauthorized withdrawals we shall reverse them.
It seems we have now localized the problem. We would like to thank the good hackers at Agora for their help once again.