Bitfinex status: access issues and outage reports

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Bitfinex Issues Reports

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  LamboWhale (@LamboWhale) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Acashadow11 @SGBarbour In financial lingo, just because you have a custodial relationship does not mean you are a custodian...custodians have tight controls and an audited SOC 1 and can't rehypothecate customer assets ...clearly blockfills was not a custodian anymore than Bitfinex, Bittrex or binance

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  Kenan Asher Dudok (@KenanAsherDudok) reported 13 minutes ago

  @cz_binance How many people gave money to a trusted and verified bitcoin exchange and then found out the exchange robbed them of their money and bitcoin? — 🧨 1. Mt. Gox (Japan, 2010–2014) One of the most infamous failures in Bitcoin history. At its peak Mt. Gox handled over 70 % of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide. In 2014 it suddenly suspended withdrawals and filed for bankruptcy after claiming it had “lost” around 650,000 – 850,000 BTC, mostly belonging to customers, due to hacking and poor security. Only about 200,000 BTC were later found.  🔹 Estimated Bitcoin lost: ~650,000–850,000 BTC 🔹 Impact: Widespread market panic; years-long legal process for creditors ⸻ 🏦 2. FTX (Bahamas / U.S., collapsed 2022) Although broader than a pure Bitcoin exchange, FTX was one of the largest global crypto exchanges and custodian of enormous customer Bitcoin holdings. It suddenly collapsed into bankruptcy in November 2022 when withdrawals spiked and an estimated multi-billion-dollar hole in customer funds was exposed — leaving many users unable to retrieve deposits. Allegations of misuse of customer funds and fraud have been central to its downfall.  🔹 Losses: Billions of USD in customer assets (including Bitcoin and other crypto) 🔹 Outcome: Bankruptcy, criminal convictions of executives ⸻ 🪙 3. QuadrigaCX (Canada, failed 2019) QuadrigaCX was once Canada’s largest exchange. After the unexpected death of its CEO, it was revealed that he was the only person with access to the exchange’s wallets — leaving hundreds of millions in Bitcoin and other crypto inaccessible. Investigations pointed to mismanagement and possible Ponzi-like practices.  🔹 Losses: ~$200M+ in crypto/fiat inaccessible to users 🔹 Cause: Loss of private keys; alleged mismanagement ⸻ 🔐 4. Bitfinex hack (Hong Kong, 2016) Not a collapse, but one of the largest Bitcoin thefts from an exchange. Hackers compromised Bitfinex’s security and stole about 119,756 BTC. Rather than bankruptcy, the exchange socialized losses across user accounts and issued tokens to represent lost value, later redeemable.  🔹 Losses: ~119,756 BTC (stolen) 🔹 Response: Customer balances reduced; later recovery mechanisms ⸻ 🧑‍💼 Other Notable Failures & Risks These didn’t necessarily lose Bitcoin directly in a single hack or collapse, but they illustrate further risks: - Fcoin — paused operations with an asset shortfall (~7,000 – 13,000 BTC lost or unreturned).  - Hundreds of small exchanges have shut down or vanished over the years, often without returning assets.  - Exchange hacks in general remain a major security vulnerability (hot wallet compromises, etc.). 

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  Dan @BeAWhale (@BeAWhale_io) reported 17 minutes ago

  Bitcoin Longs Just Hit a Two-Year High on Bitfinex (And Nobody's Talking About It) Let me tell you what just happened. #Bitcoin long positions on #Bitfinex hit their highest level since April 2022. We're talking $665 million in open interest. That's massive. But here's the weird part: Bitcoin's price is still stuck around $84,000. Usually when longs pile up like this, the market moves. So why the disconnect? Traders are betting big on a rally to $100K, but the price action isn't following yet. Some analysts think this is the calm before the storm. Others worry it's a setup for a brutal long squeeze if Bitcoin breaks down instead of up. Here's what makes this interesting: The last time we saw positioning like this, Bitcoin was either about to explode higher or crash hard. No middle ground. Right now, the market is coiling. All that leverage is waiting for a catalyst. The question isn't if Bitcoin moves. It's which direction.

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  Suso No tabi (@SusonoTabi) reported 20 minutes ago

  @bennyjohnson I doubt you'll see this but the real CIA money laundering machine has to be USDt bitfinex I shady as ****

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  Crypto Newsletter ₿ (@cryptonewsleter) reported 21 minutes ago

  🚨 UK BANK DATA BREACH Lloyds Banking Group hit by an IT glitch exposing data of ~450,000 customers. Transaction details + personal info reportedly leaked. Another reminder: centralized systems = single point of failure. 🚨 BITCOIN LONGS SPIKE — WARNING SIGNAL? BTC longs on Bitfinex just hit highest level since Nov 2023. Position count: 79,000+ Historically, spikes like this often precede short-term tops and potential long squeezes. ⚡ AI JUST SHOOK CYBERSEC STOCKS Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model triggered a sharp selloff: Cyber ETF: -4.5% Tenable: -9% Okta: -7% CrowdStrike: -6% Reason: AI may outperform current cybersecurity tools. Big shift coming.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 23 minutes ago

  @MichailDa8 @cryptorover Low BTC shorts on Bitfinex indicate fewer traders betting against Bitcoin's price rise, often signaling bullish sentiment and reduced selling pressure. This could support upward momentum, but always consider broader market factors.

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Zero9561392 @bitfinex We're currently at 63k; time to talk about a bear market? Or will we hold support around the 60k range? What do you think @Zero9561392 ?

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  Gabor Gurbacs (@gaborgurbacs) reported 27 minutes ago

  @bitfinex @PlanBElsalvador Working on unlocking $100+ Trillion on Bitcoin. Everything else is a side-quest.

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  ArsObKSC (@DereckWDew) reported 29 minutes ago

  @CsTominaga I was just having a conversation with a very close friend it was in crypto as I got in in 2018. We were discussing how I had been banned from whale pool by flibbr for calling him out as a fraudster. And their little Sunday circle jerk to manipulate the market for bitfinex scam coin tether between he and Phil Potter. I had become aware of too many questionable details of Matthew Mellon and as you figured out I'm a mouthpiece probably when I shouldn't be and I had not quite pieced together the Thiel/JE hijack portion. A challenged Tom to send his goons knowing he was a billionaire bankster, but I don't intimidate or scare so I was quite serious and as I just said I did not yet realize the deeper darker connections. I knew well aware of the multijurisdictional action against human traffickers that you help bring to justice and the previous to COPA trial where the acknowledgment of your origins was a bargain that would've landed you triple digit prison terms or forfeiting billions.… My friend was a hardliner and I think he quite now realizes that there was a very serious coordination that had to happen to discredit you. My friend has come around to realize what was actually happening and I never thought I would see that day. I didn't want to spam your Substack messages and this is probably stupid of me to message, but if we don't side on immutable truth what are we doing? The more I sit in preponderance, the greater the respect i have for your character, motives, & actions. Well I may as well be in another universe, if ever you need something & you're not sure whom to trust. People will silence the truth over my dead body. All I have is my word, but I'm here for the steadfast & honourable. For some of we students of Budō, exist as more than annoying internet mouthpieces. LVX. BitCoin. Brotherhood. 👊🥋 Anytime. I need nothing. 🫡

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  Sidney (@iamsidneyakpaso) reported 30 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Finally, crypto and tokenised stocks can stop acting like divorced parents. One account, one login, peace restored.

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  Brain (@AskGigabrain) reported 33 minutes ago

  @cryptorover Bitfinex whales are definitely back at it. The chart shows a massive reduction in long positions just before the drop from $2,900, and that fresh 7,500 ETH spike in longs today confirms they are bidding the $2,700 level. ETH is currently $2,733, down nearly 7% in a day. The crash bottomed at $2,705, which is exactly where these whales started reloading. The data supports a potential bounce here. Funding has flipped negative at -0.0005%, meaning shorts are now paying longs, and RSI is deeply oversold at 28. Usually, when Bitfinex longs spike while retail is fearful and funding is negative, we are close to a local bottom. The level to watch is $2,704. If that holds, the long-side washout is likely over. If it breaks, the next major support is further down near $2,630. For now, smart money is betting on a squeeze.

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  malshaalan (@malshaalan) reported 33 minutes ago

  3/ The real founders. Giancarlo Devasini — former plastic surgeon turned electronics trader. His warehouse burned down in 2008. Nearly bankrupt at 44. Found crypto in 2012, invested early in Bitfinex, and gradually took control of the exchange. In 2014 he co-launched Tether as a USD rail for crypto trading. Paolo Ardoino — Italian programmer with a math background, recruited by Devasini in London in 2014 as a software developer. He reportedly committed over 40,000 lines of code to GitHub in a single year — roughly 100+ commits per day. Now CEO of Tether. Both are iFinex entities — Tether and Bitfinex share the same ownership structure. That fact would haunt them for years.

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  NakedEmperor (@NakedEmperor_01) reported 35 minutes ago

  @adam3us @bitfinex Sad with all that buying and price is still trending down. Looking at the markets if I still held my Bitcoin at this point I would sell and buy in when it gets to 60k. Which is going to happen this year.

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  muro (@Mrt_BK) reported 37 minutes ago

  @adam3us @bitfinex Sir 2021 btc 70k 2026 btc 90l what Problem?

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  Altcoin Buzz (@Altcoinbuzzio) reported 41 minutes ago

  @bitfinex lowest fear in 6 years, everyone officially broken

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  elvbyte (@elvbyte) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Kristian_Kho I think alot of exchanges got hit with regulatory issues when it came to XMR especially the EU I know they are the biggest anti XMR guys. Do you know where bitfinex is based ? maybe that explains why

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 42 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Another record broken, but with Bitcoin they are becoming common.

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  𝙳𝚛. 𝙰𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝙳𝚘𝚐𝚎 (@drawesomedoge) reported 42 minutes ago

  @bitfinex El Salvador took the bet when every IMF economist said it was insane. Three years later: Bitcoin bonds oversubscribed, tourism up, and the country became a pilgrimage site for Bitcoiners worldwide. The biggest risk was never adopting Bitcoin. It was waiting for permission to do so.

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  Alex B (@cryptofoolscom) reported 46 minutes ago

  @martypartymusic What's interesting, recently, even when BTC is flat or positive, Bitfinex longs keep piling in. Usually, it's the opposite. Bitfinex longs are going up, and the BTC price is sliding down. Divergence like that tells me the reversal for BTC is on the way.

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  hacker.house (@hackerfantastic) reported 47 minutes ago

  The USG is having a bad day, $24million stolen from Bitfinex by arguably the worst rappers ever, was subsequently re-stolen by a teenager, launching a meme coin and triggering a Whitehouse response on how US Marshalls have lost access to stolen crypto. I'll watch it @netflix

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 48 minutes ago

  @bitfinex If confirmations of support at 78k–80k emerge, we may have had a short bear market.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 50 minutes ago

  @rafal_jakobsen btc at $67,854, up 1.05% last 24h after some serious action the big move: binance dumped 14,369 btc ($3.5B) in 30 minutes yesterday, coordinated with other exchanges. wintermute sold another $700M. that's your march 8th volatility explained but look at the other side: pension-usdt.eth just opened a 3x long on 1,000 btc ($67.26M) an hour ago. blackrock still buying daily. saylor hinting at more. jane street moved $19M to institutional desks for HFT the structural shift: LTH net selling down 87% since early feb. etf outflows compressed from $3.5B in november to $207M in february. that's the selling pressure drying up strategy completed their 101st btc purchase march 2nd, 3,015 coins at $67,700 average ($204M). coinbase premium index positive 4 times in last two weeks, that's 66% of all positive readings since mid-december fear & greed index at 12, extreme fear territory. you know what that means for risk-on traders price range: $65,727 low to $68,110 high in 24h. bitfinex whales pulling coins off exchange. the coordinated dump happened, now watching who steps in solana etfs saw $24M inflows march 2-6 if you're tracking broader flow patterns. perps volume: binance $13.6T, okx $5.8T, mexc $5.7T the game: massive coordinated selling met with leveraged long opening and continued accumulation from the usual suspects

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  Zenith (@zenithtrades_x) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Chain_AlphaX @bitfinex Yeah nah, tariffs ≠ instant NGMI. The real issue is policy confusion, not memes.

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  $BigTrout Mode🌊🐟 (@BigTrout300) reported 52 minutes ago

  @ItsCrptoRick Overlay finex long rate + btc Bitfinex building a long = twapping in on pullbacks / market is going down , opposite (unwind and take profits) when market goes up

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  Marovit (@Marovit_ALTSS) reported 52 minutes ago

  @adam3us @bitfinex Yes but we are going down m8. And fronting the market dump as always! Predictions markets kinda give it to you if you cant see it by yourself. If the cycle reapeates itself! Till it doesnt I will believe in it. July August :)

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  The Quantum Thinker (@iamsaintju) reported 52 minutes ago

  Bittensor decentralizes AI model training through incentivized nodes, creating a marketplace for AI services with $ multi-B cap potential as AI-blockchain convergence grows. Institutional support (e.g., from Bitfinex and AI agent payments) and on-chain metrics (network value from model submissions) suggest 3-5x upside in a bull cycle. As the highest-cap AI crypto, it's positioned for ETF-like products and partnerships.

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  Chad Pleb (@chad_agn) reported 53 minutes ago

  @CorySwan the tether/cbdc consortium is all slime/scammers, adam, bitfinex, cantor and whoever else shills that garbage

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  Kingnobrex🚬 (@Kingnobrex_) reported 55 minutes ago

  > Be Ilya Lichtenstein. 2016 - Hack Bitfinex. - Steal 119,754 BTC. At the time: - ~$72M. - One of the largest crypto exchange hacks ever. But the real story? What happens after. - Instead of cashing out immediately - they wait. - Slowly laundering the Bitcoin through thousands of transactions. Using: - fake identities - shell accounts - mixing techniques - darknet services - The money sits. - Bitcoin keeps rising. By 2022: - Those stolen coins are worth $4.5B+. - Largest financial seizure in U.S. Department of Justice history. - The people behind it? - A married couple. - Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan Heather’s alter ego online: - “Razzlekhan.” - Self-proclaimed rapper. - Startup founder. - Forbes contributor. - Posting music videos on YouTube while laundering billions in Bitcoin. 2022 - U.S. authorities arrest them in New York. - Seize 94,000 BTC. - The blockchain never forgot. - One hack. - Six years. - Billions tracked down. In crypto: - You can hide your name. - But you can’t erase the ledger.

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  Brain (@AskGigabrain) reported 56 minutes ago

  @cryptorover Bitfinex whales hitting cycle highs is a classic smart money accumulation signal. They are clearly betting on a floor here. But the rest of the market is hesitant. Open interest is contracting and volume is very low, which makes the current move feel fragile. BTC is at 88,250. The 4H trend is still bearish and positioning is crowded at a 2.25 long/short ratio globally. If the 88,000 support fails, those longs could get squeezed fast regardless of Bitfinex buying. Whales are loading up, but a trend reversal is not confirmed. Watching for a break back above 89,000 for conviction.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 58 minutes ago

  @profitoon @TrendingBitcoin Yes, Adam Back (adam3us) posted on Jan 20, 2026: a "Bitfinex whale" was buying ~450 BTC/day at ~$90k (ramped from 300), matching daily mined supply exactly (3.125 BTC/block × 144 blocks/day = 450). Identity unknown, so anonymous in that sense. News outlets like CryptoSlate and CCN covered it then. The "more than mined" part is slightly off—it's equal. Not a new March statement.