MyBitcoin.com, where did it go? - page 4.

edd

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Quote from: lettucebee on July 30, 2011, 10:54:53 PM

Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 10:49:07 PM

Fortunately, I don't have much in my account with mybitcoin ATM but I still hate losing any BTC.

That being said, I'm willing to wait until Monday at least before entertaining thoughts of persecution or investigation. Don't get me wrong, the downtime is very inconvenient and their customer response time is atrocious, but some people do still take the weekend off, after all.

You're a curious one, indeed. You are well aware of the troubles I and others had with mybitcoin weeks ago. You even participated on those threads, and yet you still left money with Pirate Tom. Did you think we were making it all up? Didn't it occur to you that your money might be next?

I had money in mybitcoin before anyone posted any problems with them and had not one single satoshi go missing at any point between now and then. The only issue I experienced was some downtime. I even asked a question once through the internal messaging system and got a reply (although it was a week later, hence my "atrocious customer response time" comment). Excuse me if I base my opinions of them on my own experiences instead of others' hearsay.

lettucebee

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Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 10:49:07 PM

Fortunately, I don't have much in my account with mybitcoin ATM but I still hate losing any BTC.

That being said, I'm willing to wait until Monday at least before entertaining thoughts of persecution or investigation. Don't get me wrong, the downtime is very inconvenient and their customer response time is atrocious, but some people do still take the weekend off, after all.

You're a curious one, indeed. You are well aware of the troubles I and others had with mybitcoin weeks ago. You even participated on those threads, and yet you still left money with Pirate Tom. Did you think we were making it all up? Didn't it occur to you that your money might be next?

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Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 10:49:07 PM

Fortunately, I don't have much in my account with mybitcoin ATM but I still hate losing any BTC.

That being said, I'm willing to wait until Monday at least before entertaining thoughts of persecution or investigation. Don't get me wrong, the downtime is very inconvenient and their customer response time is atrocious, but some people do still take the weekend off, after all.

Whoever is running MyBitcoin has been unresponsive for over a month. It's very likely gone for good. Though if you have any luck finding information, please do share.

edd

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Fortunately, I don't have much in my account with mybitcoin ATM but I still hate losing any BTC.

That being said, I'm willing to wait until Monday at least before entertaining thoughts of persecution or investigation. Don't get me wrong, the downtime is very inconvenient and their customer response time is atrocious, but some people do still take the weekend off, after all.

NothinG

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Quote from: Gabriel Beal on July 30, 2011, 09:19:38 PM

I've got the lion's share of my business' money in mybitcoin.com. I hate that as people lose faith in it and express the justifiable desire to move away from them, it creates more incentive for the creator to actually abscond with everyone's money.

I'm not loosing fate, just trying to keep the economy moving.

Also, they could let the public know what's going on.

MagicalTux

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Quote from: EricSU on July 30, 2011, 08:07:18 PM

The problem I have with your merchant system is that your site is extremely slow processing bitcoin deposits.
Often it is 1 hour or more, and mybitcoin did it in a few seconds.
Yes I realize the risk in this, but the services I sell are time sensitive, I cannot hold it for an hour to see if the customer pays or not.
It would be great your API could instantly tell me when a payment is received (even if I have to wait for it to be confirmed in block chain before I can spend it).

We can make that happen too, a first notification when payment is on the bitcoin network. However we cannot guarantee it'll be confirmed (that's up to miners).

Gabriel Beal

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Fezzik, tear his arms off.

I've got the lion's share of my business' money in mybitcoin.com. I hate that as people lose faith in it and express the justifiable desire to move away from them, it creates more incentive for the creator to actually abscond with everyone's money.

EricSU

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Quote from: MagicalTux on July 30, 2011, 07:26:20 PM

Yes, just let me know exactly what kind of API you need, and we'll make it happen

The problem I have with your merchant system is that your site is extremely slow processing bitcoin deposits.
Often it is 1 hour or more, and mybitcoin did it in a few seconds.
Yes I realize the risk in this, but the services I sell are time sensitive, I cannot hold it for an hour to see if the customer pays or not.
It would be great your API could instantly tell me when a payment is received (even if I have to wait for it to be confirmed in block chain before I can spend it).

opticbit

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.onion mybitcoin is down too

MagicalTux

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Quote from: NothinG on July 30, 2011, 07:18:02 PM

Quote from: MagicalTux on July 30, 2011, 07:02:16 PM

Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 05:16:18 PM

I thought about using Mt. Gox when Mybitcoin went down this time but saw this notice: "Merchant service are currently unavailable, but will be back soon."

Are Merchant Services available again? If so, you should remove that notice.

Please contact me ([email protected]) so we can discuss your needs as a merchant, and so we can provide the best API for you. We got no merchant on our system so far who expressed a need for any merchant system, however we can get things done quickly if you let us know exactly what kind of payment interface you need.

I coded a WHMCS payment module for MyBitcoin using their SCI, anyway I could do the same for Mt.Gox?
Was planning on selling game servers for Bitcoins.

Yes, just let me know exactly what kind of API you need, and we'll make it happen

NothinG

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Quote from: MagicalTux on July 30, 2011, 07:02:16 PM

Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 05:16:18 PM

I thought about using Mt. Gox when Mybitcoin went down this time but saw this notice: "Merchant service are currently unavailable, but will be back soon."

Are Merchant Services available again? If so, you should remove that notice.

Please contact me ([email protected]) so we can discuss your needs as a merchant, and so we can provide the best API for you. We got no merchant on our system so far who expressed a need for any merchant system, however we can get things done quickly if you let us know exactly what kind of payment interface you need.

I coded a WHMCS payment module for MyBitcoin using their SCI, anyway I could do the same for Mt.Gox?
Was planning on selling game servers for Bitcoins.

MagicalTux

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Quote from: edd on July 30, 2011, 05:16:18 PM

I thought about using Mt. Gox when Mybitcoin went down this time but saw this notice: "Merchant service are currently unavailable, but will be back soon."

Are Merchant Services available again? If so, you should remove that notice.

Please contact me ([email protected]) so we can discuss your needs as a merchant, and so we can provide the best API for you. We got no merchant on our system so far who expressed a need for any merchant system, however we can get things done quickly if you let us know exactly what kind of payment interface you need.

BioMike

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Yeah, MtGox would do for me. Others are no option, because most don't allow automatic sending of payments.

I've looked up the whois record of bitcoin. [email protected] is also down. Googled the address, found this:

http://www.nevisfinance.com/Directory.cfm?Idz=1 (same address as under Meridian Trust Company Ltd., with a Tracey Williams-Morton (MyBitcoin owner is registred as Tom Williams), same person?)

Mailed Tracey Williams-Morton with the question if she can bring me in contact with Tom Williams.

edd

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Quote from: MagicalTux on July 30, 2011, 09:38:03 AM

Quote from: the founder on July 30, 2011, 09:28:38 AM

not that I know of .. instawallet .. but that site scares me

I threw coins up there one time and closed the browser without bookmarking... LOL!

That's not instawallet's fault.. it's mine of course.. but still without any recourse to get my coins back it's somewhat scary in my opinion.

People can still use Mt.Gox for this, coupled with the yubikey (or the HOTP option we'll provide monday) it should be quite secure and there are no fees (not like with the "first bitcoin bank" canadian scam).

By the way I'd guess mybitcoin is acting pro (see http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.0 if anyone remembers it) so stuff should be back soon (well, I'll avoid saying anything negative, it'll be taken badly again)

I thought about using Mt. Gox when Mybitcoin went down this time but saw this notice: "Merchant service are currently unavailable, but will be back soon."

Are Merchant Services available again? If so, you should remove that notice.

edd

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Quote from: BioMike on July 30, 2011, 05:04:26 PM

Not all e-wallet providers have all the features that mybitcoin has.

It is far more easier to have a e-wallet provider interfacing to bitcoind and taking care of all the accounting, instead of doing it all yourself. I've seen already a couple of times that bitcoind died on services. I don't want to have to watch it for 24/7 to make sure it is up.

WalletBit appears to be the only one that comes close but they just started a couple of weeks ago. When I get home I'll try integrating them into my shopping cart and see how it goes.

BioMike

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Not all e-wallet providers have all the features that mybitcoin has.

It is far more easier to have a e-wallet provider interfacing to bitcoind and taking care of all the accounting, instead of doing it all yourself. I've seen already a couple of times that bitcoind died on services. I don't want to have to watch it for 24/7 to make sure it is up.

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