Topic: Instawallet claim process - page 28. (Read 79281 times)

Not their fault on this one.
+ they can buy cheaper coins now to give it back to you

So. What's the odds of out bitcoins being worth pennies when we get them back? I was hoping a 90 day forced hold might be a blessing in disguise. Looks like they will be considerably lower in value than when we lost them.

And was in the US, was one which boussac traveled, and was subsequent to the loss.

The 2013 one in San Jose, CA.  Sorry to have left my comments in a state which required so my detective work to unwind.  Boussac presented at the conference ('Future of Payments' or some BS was the formal name IIRC), but I am less interested in the business stuff and didn't see any of his presentations.

It starts with "The", and ends with "Bitcoin conference".

You will not have to wait 3 months from 29th May, Deadline is 11th July, simple

I met ~boussac at the conference.  I always meant to relate the story here, but never got around to it.  I've been focused on other things and the memories are becoming foggy.  I ran into him on the last day while milling around and it was a good opportunity to chat so I introduced myself.  He was clearly a bit surprised when he saw my name tag upon which I had written my bitcointalk username.  A few people had that reaction.

We had a pleasant chat.  I could not help but have some respect for the guy to show up in a foreign country where he had lost a bunch of people's money and pissed them off.  I probably would have avoided France if the roles were reversed, but then I don't speak French.

I believe that boussac probably honestly feels that they were doing something of a favor for the community in offering a free service.  I feel fairly strongly the opposite.  To me, bitcoincentral bought or was given jav's customers and all their money, then they either lost or stole some percentage of the money (between 0% and 100% which we will know if a few days.)

I fairly politely made it clear that I thought they screwed up and tried to explain with precision why I felt this way.  I did not feel that I was sufficiently convincing to sway boussac.

I wished boussac and his organization the best of luck going forward, and meant it since it would be a scenario where they were being honest (if incompetent) and everyone came out of this thing as well as possible.

My meeting with the guy was insufficient to determine whether bitcoincentral are crooks, but I did not expect that it would be.  What evidence I could glean would support either hypothesis, and a skilled con-man is easily able to avoid producing solid evidence of things in person-2-person contact.  I guess will know more in a few weeks.

A best-case scenario is that users get back the Bitcoin that they lost.  If Bitcoin-central remains in business and BTC values continue to fall, it seems possible to me that they could cover a deficeit.  At that point, I personally would be academically interested in the mechanics of the system failure which allowed this loss to occur.  A full briefing when the dust is settled would do a lot toward convincing me, and possibly others, that it was indeed a legitimate loss and, as always, I would very much like to see the perpetrators be caught and have to account for this crime.  Whoever they my be.

Fuck you all! It is now 2nd July and I did not have my coins back! I need to return loan I'm way over deadline and no fucking coins!

I filed the claim not on April but probably late May because I could not earlier decrypt my harddrive with secret wallet. I will need to wait the 90 days starting from the May 29? Why You could not just declare that You are not giving any coins back?

so do I understand it right that if I haven't heard from you till now, and I left ample contact information with my claim (forum name, email, phone), it means that everything is ok with it?  By "everything ok" I mean that you have no questions about the ownership of my addresses and are going to pay  out in full the amount claimed?

Thank you for the update!  I'm looking forward to seeing Instawallet re-built!

Actually, nothing was changed, announcing July 1st was simply a mistake on our side.
To be honest, I would have rather it be today than July 11th, want to get it over with so we can all get back to more interesting stuff, among which rebuilding Instawallet.

OK I think I understand now.  July 1 must have been a typo and they really intended to change it from July 5 to July 11.

11th July is in 10 days time. 

You were told it's going to be another 10 days? 

In support of Davout he has indeed been in touch and as much as we would all like to get our money the claims process was supposed to be 90 days.

It did mistakenly say July 1st on various posts and messages but imagine if you are someone who had a legitimate claim and only found out about it for whatever reason on July 4th. You would be pretty pissed off if your money had been used up going somewhere else and you were still technically inside the 90 days.

All I can say is from my chat with him today I feel 100x better than i did yesterday. What's another 10 days when yo've waited 90? 

Good, your vegemite isn't welcome here though.

As in "not caring about a non-issue ?".
Probably because it's a non issue.


Now that's out of the way here is what is going to be published any minute now on the instawallet.org frontpage.


I'll be around in an hour (time for me to get home) to answer questions, on this thread, and probably on IRC too. Be gentle.

It's now the 2nd July where I am

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood.
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood

edit: why are easywallet still doing the same thing?
 https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=https%3A%2F%2Feasywallet.org%2F&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=#q=site:https://easywallet.org/&lr=&hl=en&as_qdr=all&ei=fdLRUeTXCJOP7Ab37oDgDg&start=70&sa=N&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.48572450,d.ZGU&fp=ce10ab8ef3936733&biw=1384&bih=880

I see my mistaken. You clearly did post first negating my post above.

Four posts up.

Current time in France.

7:30 PM
Monday, July 1, 2013 (CEST)
Time in France

Seeing that the principals were well aware that those who have funds pending will be waiting for some type of response today, wouldn't it made sense to have a response already penned no later than yesterday and have it posted first thing today (France time)?

Why are you waiting for the last minute? Hell, you could've penned a simple post-is-pending post instead of having others ask for one.