Here's one address, the lesser of the three that I have a claim in for:
https://blockchain.info/address/1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziHThe following tx nowhere reflects my final transaction from said wallet:
https://blockchain.info/tx/cb32e5147c0510a3423a9b9c57a90fa949a3960422563bf8ade5a621a0939cecI know exactly which wallet was paid out 0.105 BTC to and he even confirmed he received payment, but his receiving address does not show the funds coming from the 1Jpp... address. It shows it coming from some other, assumingly one that InstaWallet maintained at the time.
Only three days earlier I expressed a concern (quoted below) about this very practice of which davout was kind enough to respond to, easing my concern(s) at the time. The reason for my original concern was not because of some trivial amount I maintained in this one wallet, only used as an example to help illustrate an issue I was dealing with, but because I maintained two other wallets on InstaWallet at the time having greater value: One with exactly 1,000 BTC, and the other with either 123.xxx or 132.xxx BTC. I'm pretty sure the latter was the correct amount of the two, but opted to only claim the lesser one to be fair. x = some unknown digits, since not knowing nor remembering the exact decimal amount.
I like IW, but something has changed recently and I can't put my finger on it.
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~Bruno K~
PS: To be clear, the wallet address is 1JppeHVdYQEBGR4uHVTqLQsb2FY1wUTziH
Dear Bruno,
Instawallet has always worked like a shared wallet, nothing has ever changed in this respect.
The fact you used to see coins remain at the deposit address simply means that :
- there used to be less coin turnover,
- the cold storage was less used,
- any combination of the previous reasons.
Some stuff does change though, you used to get your transaction ID back immediately when sending coins, that's not the case anymore, sends are now asynchronously handled by a background worker. That's much more secure in terms of potential race conditions, much more robust in terms of infrastructure, much more maintenable (since now I can simply stop the worker, do some work on bitcoind and switch it back on).
The traffic also increases a lot, to give you an idea, our average weekly turnover is around 10kBTC in, and 10kBTC out, it recently peaked at around 50kBTC/week.
Your wallet has exactly the amount you expect to be available, you can't rely on blockchain.info to tell you how much is available in an account on a shared wallet.
This is how your balance is calculated :
Hope it's clearer
That's a fine explanation I can live with. Thanks, bud.
~Bruno K~
Of the other two wallets mentioned, I don't have the addresses, only IW's URLs, with knowing the exact amount in only one of them--1,000 BTC. With the other, I submitted an exact 123 BTC, out of the kindness of my heart not submitting a 132 BTC claim, nor the unknown decimal amount, currently leaving ~$4,400 USD--at today's exchange rate--on the table.
I believe I may have found the 1,000 BTC, but have no way of proving it, although it was part of IW's wallet and moved about the same timeframe in which I moved my 1,000 BTC wallet just days prior to the hack(?).
I've already shown that davout was paid off due to the hack(?) well before many others were, according to Boussac's released payout txs. Also, it was stated that no wallets above 50 BTC will be processed until at some point later, of which wasn't the case from the get-go.
It took IW many days to produce the so-called police report, but have yet to produce what firm did the independent audit, unless it's in the French section of this forum like where proof of the police report was discovered and migrated to the English section by some other Bitcoiner.
To be clear, there is NO WAY I would have gone into a pussy fit over only 0.84 BTC. But, over 1,100+ BTC, of which only a handful of days prior to the hack(?) I shown my concern, you're damn right my tone went overboard, but more or less settled down after reading the following post excerpt (in yellow) at the time:
Oddly, I replied to that post, but didn't click the link, for I thought he was just linking to the police department site again.
@Phinnaeus: Jeez, could you perhaps dial it down, just a tad? I mean, your posts usually are pretty entertaining, but you're not helping anybody (including yourself) with your method. One moment, you're all official "Dear Mr Boussac, I politely request that you upload...", only to be followed up, in BRIGHT RED LETTERS, by something like "Hey Boussac, you fucked me in the ass and now you don't even go for a reach-around, what the hell?". I get it, responses by Paymium are frustrating (and I didn't even lose money or time to them), but it'd probably be more helpful to make up your mind if you want to address things seriously or go for a vulgar style.
Noted! It's just that I don't have any experience in losing a vast amount of money before, albeit doling out over $20K due to the Bitcoinia episode, indirectly (I had no funds with them), could have prepared me for this much bigger lost, directly.
As shown, the requests were mostly civil in nature at the onset, but at some point I've went overboard. I apologize for not apologizing, and appreciate the tone used in your statement directed toward me.
As you can imagine, this episode is now taking a tow on my personal well-being, business- and health-wise, though trying to be level-headed, with resorting to logic and humor to maintain my senses, tossing in vulgarity for good measure, but seeing now it best to scale that back a tad.
Hopefully, the vulgar that's in place will act as a warning to those who come after us and deal with this unprofessional individuals. (<---note, toning it down just doesn't seem to cut the mustard)
Most here have seen this exact approach in the past, all to no avail, yet we are now being led to believe that this time it will be different--just wait 90 days, and in my case possibly a helluva lot longer.
I've spent countless hours conducting research via the internet, posting my findings so that fellow bitcoiners don't get burned, coupled with helping them hunt down certain culprits. Ironically, I was doing just that when I opted to putting my wealth in a more secure place on hold to protect others. I'm not complaining, and will continue to do it, but it's now coming at a tremendous expense.
As a reward, I'm put on ignore by a Frenchman who possibly will live a comfortable life thanks to my ignorance and inaction.
Madness!
Obviously, neither vitriol attacks nor considerably toning down such afforded me seeing a single satoshi of what's currently valued at just slightly under a half million dollars at this hour's exchange rate.