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Topic: New, simple online wallet: www.instawallet.org - no signup required - page 4. (Read 28915 times)

vip
Activity: 1052
Merit: 1155
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.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
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

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.
full member
Activity: 216
Merit: 100
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
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
Software glitch. Fixed now. You should see your coins  Smiley

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 Sad

I have already written to Instawallet support, as I have had this problem twice this weekend.

NOTE: Instawallet addresses were 1Bs2aH9a9Vu42bRFnQDyRKKqGx1By13DpU & 1E7grd8iRPeLjSBzXAA4peL4iHfCvv6gE6
Fixed
donator
Activity: 335
Merit: 250
Bitcoin, Ripple & Blockchain pioneer
Software glitch. Fixed now. You should see your coins  Smiley

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 Sad

I have already written to Instawallet support, as I have had this problem twice this weekend.

NOTE: Instawallet addresses were 1Bs2aH9a9Vu42bRFnQDyRKKqGx1By13DpU & 1E7grd8iRPeLjSBzXAA4peL4iHfCvv6gE6
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
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.
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1114
WalletScrutiny.com
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.
legendary
Activity: 2506
Merit: 1010
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/

legendary
Activity: 1221
Merit: 1025
e-ducat.fr
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.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
I can't withdraw my funds but the tx has over 15 confirmations  Embarrassed 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 Smiley
newbie
Activity: 15
Merit: 0
I can't withdraw my funds but the tx has over 15 confirmations  Embarrassed hopefully this is just a glitch and they haven't been hacked.
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
420
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
was it hacked or just a joke
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1114
WalletScrutiny.com
Instawallet is down...

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

What happen with the wallets???

 Huh
It's solved now, sorry for the downtime.

[CONFIRMED] instawallet got hacked!!!! AHHHH, get your lawyers lined up!!!

lol Smiley 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%
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1008
1davout
Instawallet is down...

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

What happen with the wallets???

 Huh
It's solved now, sorry for the downtime.
full member
Activity: 163
Merit: 100
Luk, soy tu padreeee
Instawallet is down...

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

What happen with the wallets???

 Huh
420
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
Supercomputers

Yes, crypto doesn't work "because supercomputers".


why do you believe that?
sr. member
Activity: 444
Merit: 250
Supercomputers

Yes, crypto doesn't work "because supercomputers".
420
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 500
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
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1114
WalletScrutiny.com
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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