Holy Moly... I have been checking every 15 minutes for 5 days.  I was starting to lose faith.  Thanks for posting!

So... those of you that were certain Chip Mixer would come back online... I am curious to know if your opinion has changed.  Do you think this is just a bad outage?  Or something bigger and worse? 

I mean... we are pushing 5+ days at this point with no update whatsoever.  If the ChipMixer admins wanted to dispel the concern, they could easily update the Clearnet site with a note that they are working on the problem.

Thoughts anybody?

Yep... I had actually sent an email to that address politely mentioning the situation.  I have not heard back.  I will give it some time.


Agreed.  And to be honest... now that you have provided me with some level headed thinking... I do feel better.  Thank you for that.  I do believe this is all going to work itself out.

Thanks for clarifying.  That was not clear to me... but I am a newbie.

Thanks!  That is a good tip.  I was planning to do three withdraws over four days.  The first withdraw happened 24 hours after the deposit and was successful.  The next day the site went down.  I have been trying to get back into complete the withdraws.  I did see the voucher but did not plan to wait more than 7 days... so I did not pull vouchers.  I now understand that it is better to just pull vouchers immediately and use them over time.

I appreciate the note that ChipMixer will extend the session times.  That does give me some comfort.

I would also just love ChipMixer to update the clearnet site and say something like "We are experiencing problems at the moment.  Do not worry... we expect to be back online soon and your funds are safe."  Or something similar.

OK... fair enough.  I do understand the "chill and do not create panic." 

One thing that concerns me... the value of washing coins is based on the time between the deposit and the withdraw.  If you deposit and withdraw the same amounts with no delay you diminish the value of mixing.  On top of that... the ChipMixer paradigm is based on creating a session that terminates after 7 days.  Meaning... if I create a session and deposit some bitcoin I need to preserve the chips or withdraw the BTC within 7 days.

So what if the BTC is sitting in my session and the 7 day session expires while the site is down?  In this case I never really had the chance to withdraw the funds.

I do not completely believe that is accurate.  I can load other pages... both clearnet and onion pages.  But not CM.  Sure... not every page loads every time.  But CM has not loaded for 48 hours... and I have tried at least 100 times.

I see in the thread Signature Thread campaign there is a post from @DarkStar on July 24 (page 232)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935179.4620

That post says "ChipMixer hasn't been online since last week".  Then a post a couple days later would indicate that ChipMixer did come back online and make payments.  Hopefully that is the case right now.

I do hear what @eaLiTy is saying about speculation.  At the same time... when a reputable business/service/anything is unable to service the community AND says nothing... it generates doubt.  That doubt is amplified when the service revolves around emerging technologies (crypto), touts anonymity and lives on a hidden network (TOR).  The simple nature of an exist scam is that you take the assets and leave without saying anything... so saying nothing just makes it worse.

I am a new ChipMixer user.  I spent 3-4 days testing with trivial amounts of BTC.  When I was satisfied that the service worked exactly as documented, I started to move much larger amount of BTC through.  I also made a donation for the use of the service.

If this is just DDOS downtime... that is some bad luck on my part. 

Thanks for responding.  I guess time will tell if this is an exit scam or a honest downtime.

I am having the same issues restoring my ChipMix session.  I am pretty concerned that I have lost some BTC.  Has anyone been able to get to the official ChipMix Or Fly site?