Is instawallet under some kind of attack?
As I watch the site, the number of wallets is increasing faster than my eye can follow. (Thousands of new wallets per minute)
Also, my recent instawallet deposit was never credited to my wallet.
What is going on?
-------------------------Update-------------------------
Everyone at Instawallet is great and solved this problem very quickly.
Topic: New, simple online wallet: www.instawallet.org - no signup required - page 4. (Read 28908 times)
December 06, 2012, 01:13:40 AM
December 03, 2012, 03:36:41 PM
I just withdrew 0.01BTC from my instawallet to someone else, and was
surprised to see that you paid another 75% (0.0075 BTC) for miner fees!
[...]
https://blockchain.info/tx/69e47b21d626827d30cfc76235755350767faa9c1831a56023274aae38de5d6a?show_adv=true
surprised to see that you paid another 75% (0.0075 BTC) for miner fees!
[...]
https://blockchain.info/tx/69e47b21d626827d30cfc76235755350767faa9c1831a56023274aae38de5d6a?show_adv=true
Free transactions they said!
Your case is a little extreme, we usually don't pay much fees because we can usually send aged coins even if you withdraw what you deposited 20 minutes earlier.
But yea, the transaction sending code could use a little love, to bundle small transactions together for example.
December 03, 2012, 12:54:23 PM
I just withdrew 0.01BTC from my instawallet to someone else, and was
surprised to see that you paid another 75% (0.0075 BTC) for miner fees!
Now, I thought the minimum retrieval amount of 0.01 was exactly
to avoid any miner fees at all, so I guess this might be a bug, which
I hereby report. (To be clear: this "bug" is entirely irrelevant for my
own money. It's instawallet's money that I think got spent too much
to the miner, and I'm merely worrying on instawallet's behalf ;-)
https://blockchain.info/tx/69e47b21d626827d30cfc76235755350767faa9c1831a56023274aae38de5d6a?show_adv=true
surprised to see that you paid another 75% (0.0075 BTC) for miner fees!
Now, I thought the minimum retrieval amount of 0.01 was exactly
to avoid any miner fees at all, so I guess this might be a bug, which
I hereby report. (To be clear: this "bug" is entirely irrelevant for my
own money. It's instawallet's money that I think got spent too much
to the miner, and I'm merely worrying on instawallet's behalf ;-)
https://blockchain.info/tx/69e47b21d626827d30cfc76235755350767faa9c1831a56023274aae38de5d6a?show_adv=true
November 19, 2012, 06:28:35 AM
Software glitch. Fixed now. You should see your coins 
Again it seems Instawallet is not working properly.
When I tried to send bitcoins from instawallet to another bitcoin address I got the message: "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
The original amount is deducted from the instawallet address but it's not sent to the destination address
I have already written to Instawallet support, as I have had this problem twice this weekend.
NOTE: Instawallet addresses were 1Bs2aH9a9Vu42bRFnQDyRKKqGx1By13DpU & 1E7grd8iRPeLjSBzXAA4peL4iHfCvv6gE6
November 19, 2012, 01:13:19 AM
Software glitch. Fixed now. You should see your coins
Again it seems Instawallet is not working properly.
When I tried to send bitcoins from instawallet to another bitcoin address I got the message: "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
The original amount is deducted from the instawallet address but it's not sent to the destination address
I have already written to Instawallet support, as I have had this problem twice this weekend.
NOTE: Instawallet addresses were 1Bs2aH9a9Vu42bRFnQDyRKKqGx1By13DpU & 1E7grd8iRPeLjSBzXAA4peL4iHfCvv6gE6
October 08, 2012, 02:27:43 AM
Incidentally, how many different, unsuccessful wallet requests from the same IP before the banhammer comes down?
The banhammer is used only for maliciously crafted requests. 
October 07, 2012, 07:28:09 AM
I love the new design of the home page.
+1, yes, just saw the new InstaWallet site. Nice work.
Incidentally, how many different, unsuccessful wallet requests from the same IP before the banhammer comes down?
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/112733/instawallet_metal_detector/
This "metal detector" is a joke as stated by the most up-voted comment. Instawallet invites users to create thousands of wallets for whatever meaningful use with their api and a real metal detector would rather look for man-made wallets like https://www.instawallet.org/w/forAndrea or similar dictionary matches.
October 07, 2012, 12:40:29 AM
I love the new design of the home page.
+1, yes, just saw the new InstaWallet site. Nice work.
Incidentally, how many different, unsuccessful wallet requests from the same IP before the banhammer comes down?
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/112733/instawallet_metal_detector/
October 06, 2012, 04:02:14 PM
I love the new design of the home page. And the fact that it has NEVER been hacked.
Stephan, Arsy and davout you are doing a great job with Instawallet.
Stephan, Arsy and davout you are doing a great job with Instawallet.
October 01, 2012, 06:38:23 PM
I can't withdraw my funds but the tx has over 15 confirmations 
hopefully this is just a glitch and they haven't been hacked.
You should now be able to withdraw your coins. And no, nothing was hacked hopefully this is just a glitch and they haven't been hacked. October 01, 2012, 05:38:49 PM
I can't withdraw my funds but the tx has over 15 confirmations hopefully this is just a glitch and they haven't been hacked.
hopefully this is just a glitch and they haven't been hacked. October 01, 2012, 04:31:59 PM
October 01, 2012, 04:27:43 PM
was it hacked or just a joke
October 01, 2012, 03:39:26 PM
Instawallet is down...
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
It's solved now, sorry for the downtime."We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
[CONFIRMED] instawallet got hacked!!!! AHHHH, get your lawyers lined up!!!
lol
thanx for the great service. I have far too many BTC in instawallet regarding my general skepticism towards hosted wallets but instawallet is the best so far.Do you know your up-time? I would guess it is >99.8%
October 01, 2012, 03:20:37 PM
Instawallet is down...
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
It's solved now, sorry for the downtime. "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
October 01, 2012, 03:05:17 PM
Instawallet is down...
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
What happen with the wallets???
September 15, 2012, 07:39:52 PM
Supercomputers
Yes, crypto doesn't work "because supercomputers".
why do you believe that?
September 15, 2012, 02:11:56 PM
Supercomputers
Yes, crypto doesn't work "because supercomputers".
September 15, 2012, 12:42:45 PM
couldn't someone just run a program to load all random urls until they find ones with coins in them and take the coins?
Yes, in the same way that someone could just try all the private/public keypairs and see which ones correspond to Bitcoin addresses with coins in them. aka no (it would take longer than the universe will exist counting from when it started.)
Supercomputers
but generating just one address and checking for existence of bitcoins is multitudes easier than generating two addresses and checking
but maybe the website has a way of shutting down or blocking something with so many requests or couldn't even handle so many requests
September 15, 2012, 11:37:42 AM
couldn't someone just run a program to load all random urls until they find ones with coins in them and take the coins?
Yes, in the same way that someone could just try all the private/public keypairs and see which ones correspond to Bitcoin addresses with coins in them. aka no (it would take longer than the universe will exist counting from when it started.)
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