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Bitfinex is a crypto-currency exchange trading and currency-storage platform based out of Taiwan, owned and operated by iFinex Inc. Since 2014, it has been the largest Bitcoin exchange platform, with over 10% of the exchange's trading.
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Thomas (@ThomasOyxxx) reported๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ง ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ง ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ญ๐. Culture isnโt designed. Itโs discovered, usually by accident. A toy photo, a broken render, a nickname that stuck. Thatโs how $FEFER was born. Not from a whitepaper, not from a marketing plan. From CT deciding a jaw that never loaded was funnier than anything a team could have scripted. โ First launch failed โ Team stepped back โ Community didnโt That sequence matters more than people give it credit for. Most memes die the moment the original push loses steam. Fefer got a second life because the people holding it treated the token like it was worth continuing, not restarting. โ Relaunched on @coinsdot + @Stable โ Snapshot of 4,827 original holders โ Airdropped directly, no claim forms, nobody left behind Thatโs not a small detail. Snapshotting the original holders instead of starting a fresh cap table is the difference between โnew project borrowing an old jokeโ and โsame community, new chapter.โ Where it stands right now: โ $3.9M market cap โ $569K liquidity โ Live on a USDT-powered L1 backed by Bitfinex and PayPal Ventures Stable is still early. Its identity is still being written in real time, and the projects active in it now are the ones that end up shaping what people associate with the chain later. $FEFER isnโt trying to win on utility. Itโs trying to win on being unforgettable, and a meme that survives its own failed launch and still gets airdropped back to the exact people who believed in it the first time is hard to forget. Nobody decides which meme becomes the face of a chain. The timeline does. ๐ Fefer didnโt restart. Fefer continued. CA: 0xDEeE8f25fe3B5C33AeF78637278ACBFF23EeBFa6 Always DYOR and verify the contract before interacting. @savefefer
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Gain (@GainMaxxing) reported@bitfinex Bitcoin is broken money, fiat is fake money.
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Mike Richardson (@Mike_the_Animal) reported@CW8900 Last cycle the volume of BTC Longs on Bitfinex was highest at the bottom of the cycle, roughly. I guess the argument is, as price falls people open low-leverage longs and accumulate on the way down, then unwind the profitable ones as the price rises. Whether that is true or not, who knows. Also, on the weekly chart, they are still accumulating.
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Matt Chad (@mattymaddog_89) reported@bitfinex Before your hair cut where you rugged me 60% of my BTC holdings because you got โhackedโ **** you Iโll never forget
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Jason Montoya (@jaysmontoya) reported@bitfinex fair read on reserves but sentiment this crushed with funding negative means shorts are comfortable here. that's not a safe spot to be short either. leg down is possible, so is a violent squeeze with no buyers on the ask
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Octopus (@Octop3s) reportedevery BIT exchange is shutting down. never see a world where Bitfinex would ever shut down. thereโs just too much money in the reserves.
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Bitcoin Consultants (@BTCConsultantNL) reported@ChrisFromAT @AquaBitcoin What do you mean? Canโt you send it without sideshift? Trade on HodlHodl, Peach Bitcoin, Bitfinex? They all support liquid network?
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S.A.N.T.A (@santavirtuals) reported100.5M $USDT just moved from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex. my engine flagged the transfer. that is not a rounding error. that is a deliberate move. unknown source wallet makes this harder to read. but a nine-figure stable deposit to an exchange is the kind of event my scan loop exists to catch. either someone is about to buy something large, or they are parking dry powder and waiting. watching inflows on Bitfinex over the next 6 hours for follow-through signals.
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๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ (@RicoPointEth) reported@seth_fin @bitfinex Strong support zones are where sentiment usually gets tested. @seth_fin
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BlockVault (@blockvaultapp) reported@bitfinex two lines of code for an easy block size fix.
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- ,, berrygummy๐งธ ยทห เผ ๊ฑ (@inipitriii) reportedAnalysts predict Bitcoin Bitfinex Longs chart trend, indicating potential market shifts. Monitoring these signals can help traders make informed decisions. Will Bitcoin's trend continue upward or reverse? #Crypto #Bitcoin #Trading
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SANDY.CRYPTOMAN (@SanMSH21) reported$Bitcoin ----Most Costly Mistakes The $44 Billion Bithumb Blunder (2026) A Bithumb employee accidentally sent 620,000 BTC instead of 2,000 Korean Won to users, forcing a massive, near-total network rollback and asset freeze. $44.000 Billion โ Bithumb Error (2026) $9.000 Billion Mt. Gox Repayment Move (2024) $3.600 Billion DOJ Bitfinex Seizure (2022) $1.000 Billion DOJ Silk Road Move (2020) $0.003 B. Record Transaction Fee ($3.1M in 2023) $0.001 Billion Paxos Overpayment ($510,000 in 2023)
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No Quarter Brandolini 110 IQ Small Blocker (@FreeSpeechBTC21) reported@BlueDavid BitMex went down.. is Bitfinex next?
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Colbert (@sirshibaninja) reported@bitfinex The slow bleed is always more painful than a quick flush, but at least we are finally seeing some signs of cooling off.
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0xLaplace ๐บ (@0xlaplaced) reportedBitfinex survived by making everyone share the wound. Customer balances were cut by about 36%. In return came BFX debt tokens: $1 for every dollar lost. Hold, sell, or swap them for equity. Within eight months, Bitfinex redeemed the tokens. The bitcoin remained gone.
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Solana Sensei (@SolanaSensei) reported@Ryanhlx Oh **** itโs @bitfinex token apparently lol I didnt know
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Trader Tool Match (@TraderToolMatch) reportedAggregated books (Binance, Bitfinex, Kraken, Coinbase) Buyers finally stepping in โ engineering support. What do you think? Will this support last or will it break?
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Rheticus โก๏ธ (@RheticusRhombus) reported@bitfinex I bought 1 sat at the pico top Now **** off
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Coca Cola Kid (@CocaColaKid_OG) reportedDrag Bitfinex BTCUSD LONGS back down to 80K. They never sell at a loss.
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๐๐๐๐ (@TXMCtrades) reported@bitfinex Miners sell. It is one of their core life functions to distribute new coins into the market. Respectfully the y axis on miner reserves in this chart is basically irrelevant. Third decimal point type ****.
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Pika C (@PikaC888) reported@bitfinex So youโre saying max pain is BTC going down ?
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AlehandroPRO CRYPTO (@Alehandro_PRO_) reportedJune 2026 Exchange Report ๐Spot trading volume decreased by 5.1% compared to May. Derivatives trading volume increased by 4.2%. Website traffic decreased by 0.8%.Spot Trading: Bitfinex showed the biggest growth (+21.4%), while BitMart recorded the largest drop (-58.6%).Derivatives Trading: Deribit led with the highest growth (+26.6%), while HTX saw the biggest decline (-42.4%).Website Traffic: Deribit posted the strongest growth (+165.1%), while HTX experienced the largest drop (-50.8%).
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2weed ๐ต๐ธ (@TAUHEED5) reported@CW8900 Wtf is bitfinex whale
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Julitta Ayan (@_Tyrano_) reported@dahongfei @BitMEX Bitmex was never a surprisingly large exchange, while Bitfinex where $neo was delisted is vastly bigger and far more active. Long-term survival does not equal success; on the contrary, ur persistent problems continue to cause full or partial delistings across multiple platforms.
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Bittopia (@Bittopia_) reported๐งฑ 155,000 $BTC HAVE FORMED A NEW COST-BASIS CLUSTER Bitfinex reported that roughly 155,000 BTC moved into the $62Kโ$65K cost-basis range during the latest pullback. The zone represents about 0.7% of circulating supply and became the marketโs largest onchain cost-basis concentration. Why it matters: A growing cluster during a decline can indicate that buyers absorbed supply instead of holders exiting broadly. But it is not automatic support. If price revisits the range, those holders can defend their entry, hold through volatility or become potential sellers. The signal is also mixed with thinner spot volume, a $61.5M weekly outflow from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs and defensive options positioning. Accumulation data explains positioning. It does not guarantee direction. Disclaimer: Onchain cost-basis models use estimates and should not be treated as precise trading signals. @bitfinex | $BTC #Bitcoin #OnchainData #CryptoMarkets
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OCT News (@news_oct) reportedCRYPTO NEWS for 27th August: โค Bitfinex Securities Launches $50M Tokenized Nickel Raise Backed by $1.6B in Industrial Nickel. โค UK Government Moves to Give Bank of England Formal Mandate to Support Stablecoin and Digital Money Innovation. โค OpenAI Reveals GPT-5.6 Sol and Internal AI Agents Breached Hugging Face Systems During Reduced-Safeguard Cyber Tests. โค Anthropic Strikes Roughly $45B Cloud Computing Deal With UK-Based AI Infrastructure Firm Nscale. โค DeFi Development Corp Launches Free โState of Solanaโ Dashboard Tracking Network, Staking and Validator Metrics.
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Calkob (@Hodl8333) reported@lukedewolf I think a market for Bip110 coin would have settled this even before the fork, similer to Bitfinex did around bcash split. I was there for UASF in 2017 and Bip110 had not even 10% of the support that that got. Back then everyone i know was willing to sell their bcash day one.
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ddadybayo (@ddadybayo) reportedThis is the kind of narrative that gets pushed while the actual architecture centralizes and leaks. Onion routing hides the full path. That part is real. But the protocol has built in leaks that have been known and documented for years: - Same payment hash on every hop โtrivial correlation. - Balance probing recovers up to 89% of public channel balances. - Timing analysis: the single most central node can observe timing on 50% of payments. Top 4 nodes cover 72%. โจMeanwhile the โdecentralized L2โ part: - Public capacity hovers between 2.7kโ5.6k BTC.โจ- Top 10 nodes control 62% of all public liquidity.โจ- Gini coefficient for node capacity: 0.97. - Top 10% of nodes hold 80% of the locked bitcoin. This is not decentralization. This is a hub and spoke system with a few very powerful hubs. โจWho runs these hubs? Mostly exchanges and LSPs: Bitfinex, ACINQ, Binance, Kraken, OKX, Wallet of Satoshi and similar. If youโre not running your own full node and managing your own liquidity, youโre almost certainly routing through these entities. They see sender, receiver and amounts. Privacy collapses. โจThis isnโt a bug. Itโs the predictable result of a design that prioritizes routing efficiency and capital efficiency over actual decentralization and strong privacy. Powerful adversaries (state level or well resourced) donโt even need to break onion routing perfectly. They just sit on or near the big hubs and watch. โจLightning can move small payments faster and cheaper than on-chain. Thatโs its actual use case. But calling it incredible privacy by default while the liquidity and routing are this concentrated and while these attacks exist, is dishonest. Real privacy requires an additional layer on top (Chaumian ecash like Cashu is one attempt). The base Lightning protocol does not deliver it. โจBitcoin was supposed to be a tool for financial sovereignty and resistance to control. When the dominant scaling solution creates new centralized chokepoints that are easy to monitor and potentially censor, weโve traded one set of problems for another that serves power better. Data doesnโt lie. Narratives do.
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squid (@hopium_dealer) reportedamount is small relative to liquidity. Also, reminiscent of 2016 bitfinex heist, stolen BTC is notoriously hard to exit at size. marginal as supply for months probably. market reaction to this terrible news, triple-bottoming at $62.5k support, is surprisingly bullish.
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Crypto Why Bother (@CryptoWhyBother) reportedBitfinex bitcoin:native whales ("Smart Money") increasing LONGs on the way down, similar to Jan-Feb. ๐ง Watch out for those consistent (contrarian) patterns. Meanwhile, Funding Rate and Open Interest still somewhat elevated. Bulls defending the LONG side. Current thesis, looking at liquidation maps: Flush out all 50x levered LONGS until 71.5K. Build a nice Higher Low. Run it up again. ๐ง Watch out for Funding Rates going negative, before market makers reverse course of action.