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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: MagnoliaMarlo on January 31, 2013, 04:40 pm

Title: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: MagnoliaMarlo on January 31, 2013, 04:40 pm
Instawallet is currently down for maintenance.

I have coins en route there and am slightly worried.

Has this ever happened before? What type of time frame does this usually take? If my coins are being attempted to be sent will the btc address be available?
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: SelfSovereignty on January 31, 2013, 06:35 pm
Not to worry, the coins will end up at the address just fine.  Really the coins don't actually "go" to the wallet.  What happens is the entire network records the transaction of them going there, and then by consensus, they're there.

The wallet itself can be under the ocean for all it matters, as long as everyone else records the send transaction, you'll get them :)
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: Just Chipper on January 31, 2013, 07:52 pm
Quote from: SelfSovereignty on January 31, 2013, 06:35 pm
Not to worry, the coins will end up at the address just fine.  Really the coins don't actually "go" to the wallet.  What happens is the entire network records the transaction of them going there, and then by consensus, they're there.

The wallet itself can be under the ocean for all it matters, as long as everyone else records the send transaction, you'll get them :)
^^This.

Also it's down for maintenance to resolve known SQLi vulnerabilities in "ruby on rails" (which that site runs on) according to Davout (site owner) on Bitcointalk.org. It will be back up shortly, all patched up, and ready for more BTC.
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: BrightLightz on January 31, 2013, 08:54 pm
I also had coins transferred from bitinstant to instawallet yesterday. Bitinstant was fucked up yesterday and took much longer than expected. Of course by the time they transferred the coins Instawallet is down. I can see they transferred my coins to my Instawallet address. Then 30 minutes later they were removed from that address. Does this mean they've been jacked? Or does Instawallet have a built in tumbler type feature? I'd really just like to have access to my damn money! Ugh.... relying on other is a pain in the ass!
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: MagnoliaMarlo on January 31, 2013, 11:39 pm
Where did you see on bitcointalk that it is being resolved? It's been down for almost 12 hours now- just trying to find an eta of it working.

Thanks
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: Just Chipper on February 01, 2013, 05:29 pm
Quote from: MagnoliaMarlo on January 31, 2013, 11:39 pm
Where did you see on bitcointalk that it is being resolved? It's been down for almost 12 hours now- just trying to find an eta of it working.

Thanks

***CLEARNET*** https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134530.0 ***CLEARNET***
Title: Re: Instawallet Maintenance
Post by: AmnesiaBlackout on February 01, 2013, 07:05 pm
Instawallet is responding well to me in my regular browser but I can't seem to access it via Tor. Is this to do with their maintenance? Is anyone else having this issue?

Edit: after much refreshing it eventually loaded :P