Hi all & @Boussac
TL:DR - Had an instawallet many many years ago, laptop crashed, life went on - college, job, wife, kids, etc, cleaned our storage room last week and found my old laptop, had the laptop/drive recovered, found instawallet address, found out instawallet doesn't exist anymore, and now I would love to recover the funds from my instawallet.
Full story:
After recovering one of my old laptops, my wife and I were going through old pictures, she suggested I check for any of my old bitcoin wallets that I had told her about after bitcoin went crazy a couple years back and everyone was talking about bitcoin.
Sure enough, I found a text file and a chrome bookmark for my instawallet. We both got pretty excited considering we've been stuck in quarantine for months and there is not much to get excited about. So realizing we may have just found a decent amount of money which used to be an insignificant amount of money seemed like it would definitely be our highlight of the year. It was quite a bummer after clicking on the bookmark and seeing that the page did not exist anymore.
I started Google searching things like "what happened to instawallet". My searches quickly led me to a very long forum post here by @Boussac - after skimming through the 47 pages and clicking on more recent threads about the same topic, I've come to realize that the only thing I can do is post here and hope that @Boussac gets in touch with me.
It is very unfortunate that people like me who really didn't use instawallet religiously or rely on the btc held on the site for daily/regular transactions - would end up losing our funds because we were silly enough to leave our funds on a website we didn't touch for years and now that I have found out what happened to instawallet, it seems I am about 7 years too late for my btc to be guaranteed/returned :/ It would be great just to find out how much or how little BTC was left in my instawallet before it was shut down, but it would be even better to have my funds returned.
@Boussac If you are reading this, or anyone else in this forum is reading this who could help get his attention, that would be very greatly appreciated.
I can provide whatever information is necessary to prove my secret wallet address belongs to me.
Does anyone know if contacting customer service through Paymium would be a good idea? After skimming through related threads here it seems like that is the company who took over instawallet?
Any advice would be appreciated, even something as basic as telling me which forum area this should have been posted to. I posted it here because I saw a similar post in this same section.
Thanks so much and fingers crossed @Boussac stumbles onto this post!