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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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Moloch (@Moloch6666) reported@vincent_vancode It's manipulated on the way down and up It has been discovered in court how tether is manipulating the prices with bots in cooperation with the biggest exchanges(bitfinex case).
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netrunner (@netrunner_btc) reported@bitfinex whitepaper never says it but satoshi did use "block chain" (two words) on bitcointalk by 2010
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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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ForeDex (@ForeDex_Global) reportedDaily ForeDex CVD by Order Size (Spot) Snapshot ๐ธ ๐ธ Whales and Mega Whales Only ๐ธ Based on a 1 month period (1M) 1. Binance : Decreased ๐ 2. Bybit : No Change โ 3. Bitfinex (USD) : No Change โ 4. Bitfinex (USDT) : No Change โ โ Summary: A gradual step-down was seen on Binance, with no change across Bybit, Bitfinex USD, and Bitfinex USDT. [07-16-2026]
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DAโฟOLOSKOV (@daboloskov) reported@BFXSecurities @paoloardoino @bitfinex Are you guys can answer to your customer? Your support form certificate is no signed anymore and outdated.
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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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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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The Bull Q๐ (@TheBull1123) reported๐จSOMEONE JUST OPENED A $16,000,000 $XRP LONG. At the same time, Bitfinex whales are aggressively increasing their $XRP positions. Wtf is going on???
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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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Coinlive (@CoinliveHQ) reportedBitfinex Securities has listed five tokenized notes giving eligible non-US investors economic exposure to Strategy, STRC, Metaplanet, H100 Group and Capital B. They trade against USD, USDT and Bitcoin, with fractional access from about $1.
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samsainlove .ยฐหโง (@samsainlove2) reported@bitfinex AVOID BITFINEX ! stealing customer money !!
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Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) reportedReview: Major Institutions' Bitcoin Bottom Price Predictions for This Cycle Major institutional assessments of Bitcoinโs cycle bottom cluster mainly in two ranges: $50,000โ$60,000 and $40,000โ$46,000. However, some figures are base-case bottom forecasts, while others represent valuation floors, support levels or bearish scenarios. Standard Chartered said $59,000 may have marked the bottom; CryptoQuant, NYDIG and Citi identified key levels near $53,000โ$54,000; 10x Researchโs latest model pointed to $46,628โ$50,732; and Galaxy Research placed its base-case bottom at $40,000โ$46,000. Bitfinex and 22V Research also identified potential downside toward $40,000 under weaker demand or a decisive support break, while forecasts below $40,000 mostly reflect prolonged bear-market, recession or severe stress scenarios. Forecasts from industry figures are more dispersed, ranging from around $57,000 to below $30,000. Overall, there is no unified institutional consensus that Bitcoin will bottom at $44,000โ$46,000.
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wittery (@midwit_retard) reported@Wild_Randomness @ch1ckenNS correlation def works but feels like some weird data issue? where does this long accumulation data on bitfinex come from eve..
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Erik (@ero_crypto) reportedCENTRALIZED EXCHANGE ASSET FLOWS Where is capital moving across centralized exchanges this month? Looking at 30-day net flows across 65+ tracked CEXs, the picture shows a clear shift in capital and confidence between platforms. As of August 6, 2026, total CEX assets stand at $244.6B, down from $246.86B 30 days earlier โ a net decline of $2.26B (-0.92%). โพ 28 exchanges recorded inflows totaling +$893.5M โพ 37 exchanges saw outflows totaling -$3.15B โพ OKX: -$1.186B (-5.59%) โพ Bybit: -$604.2M โพ Bitfinex: +$263.91M โพ Deribit: +$257.36M Bitfinex and Deribit attracted the strongest inflows relative to their size, while OKX and Bybit experienced some of the largest capital outflows. The broader takeaway: capital is leaving CEXs overall, but the flow between individual platforms is telling a much more interesting story.
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Cryptocrat (@Cryptocratico) reported๐จ $167M BTC SHIFTS BETWEEN MAJOR EXCHANGES Approximately 2,572 BTC moved in two transactions from a Bitfinex-labeled hot wallet to Kraken-labeled addresses. This is a sizeable cross-exchange liquidity shiftโnot evidence of a sale. Customer withdrawals, custody, OTC settlement or liquidity management remain possible.
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Tutsi Andre (@tutsiandre) reportedHey @bitfinex I've been a verified customer for many years, now you are blocking my withdrawals?
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difoxxn (@Difoxxn) reported$๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐น๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ "๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ" ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐ถ๐ ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐น๐ ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ธ๐. ๐๐ฒ๐'๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฝ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป-๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ Bitfinex just yeeted $BGB off their platform (delisted July 3). And the "official reason"? A vague "listing qualifications review." Translation: read between the lines yourself. Meanwhile Bitget's out here launching Stocks 2.0 like it's the second coming of TradFi. Cool story. But nobody's talking about the fact that $BGB's 24h volume is a measly $10M on a $1.18B cap. That's a 0.85% vol/cap ratio. This thing trades like a ghost town, not a "top 3 exchange token." "Deflationary tokenomics" ๐คก let's fact check that real quick: Dec 2024 burn: 800M tokens. Massive, legit, impressive. Q2 2026 Morph burn: 3,010,400 tokens. That's not a burn, that's a rounding error. Someone's riding on 2024's hype with 2026's leftovers. And here's the part that should actually scare you โ there's NO public whale wallet breakdown for $BGB. None. Zero. Nada. An exchange that publishes monthly Proof of Reserves for 42 straight months... can't show you who's holding the bag on their own token? Make it make sense. That green candle everyone's screenshotting? Pure market beta. Zero BGB-specific catalyst behind it. You're not smart money for buying it โ you're just along for the market's ride. My honest take: this is a CEX with real revenue wrapped around a token with thin liquidity, a fresh tier-1 delisting, and zero whale transparency. That's not a "hold and pray" setup โ that's a "know your exit" setup. Growth headlines don't pay your bags. On-chain flow does. Stay sharp, don't get exit-liquidity'd. NFA, DYOR, act accordingly. #BGB #Bitget
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Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) reported@nic_carter At least two of cryptoโs biggest successful institutions were ponzis at points in time. Both seem today to have more than fully recovered their assets. With bitfinex-tether I think this is pretty public knowledge at this point: at one point bitfinex was insolvent and recapitalized with tether, and vice versa, so at various points each was in a ponzi state. But profits flowed, and all worked out. The principals wanted/hope for this to happen, rather than their customers eat the losses, their business fail, and possible criminal charges. IMO, this is all unethical and illegal, butโฆa lot less malicious and unethical than people who run ponzis intending to exit scam. The other example is more controversial - Binance. We know customer funds were transferred from the exchange to a private trading account and gambled with (on-chain forensics, public reporting). Presumably repaid later with winnings. Why did CZ do that? I assume the same reason heโs still running pumps and dumps as the worldโs richest felon.
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2weed ๐ต๐ธ (@TAUHEED5) reported@CW8900 Wtf is bitfinex whale
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perdooky (@perdooky) reportedmy journey to safely custody bitcoin: first heard about bitcoin in 2011 and stored it on MyBitcoin because it was literally called MyBitcoin > website disappeared with my bitcoin started over and deposited it into Bitcoin Savings & Trust because a man named pirateat40 was paying a very sustainable 7% per week > ponzi collapsed > lost all my bitcoin started over on Mt. Gox because the exchange handling most global bitcoin volume had to be the safe one > 647,000 BTC stolen > bankruptcy > lost all my bitcoin started over on Bitfinex because exchanges had surely learned their lesson > 120,000 BTC hack > every customer received a 36% haircut and an IOU token moved what remained to BTC-e because nothing says trustworthy custodian like โBTC-eโ > operator arrested and servers seized put the recovery stack into BitConnect because its proprietary volatility trading bot guaranteed daily returns > hey hey heyyyy > lost all my bitcoin started over on QuadrigaCX because Canada felt responsible > CEO died in India, supposed cold wallets were empty and the exchange turned out to be a ponzi > lost all my bitcoin finally learned โnot your keys, not your coinsโ and ordered a Ledger > Ledger leaked my name, phone number and home address still had the bitcoin though, so wrapped it and deposited it into BadgerDAO because decentralized finance eliminated counterparty risk > front end compromised > lost all my bitcoin bought a Bitcoin-only, air-gapped Coldcard in 2021, generated a fresh seed and moved my long-term stack there > finally safe used the trading stack to buy UST because bitcoin was too volatile and โstableโ was literally in the name > deposited it into Anchor for a modest 20% risk-free yield > death spiral > lost all my stable bitcoin unbanked myself with Celsius > withdrawals frozen moved to Voyager because it was publicly traded > bankruptcy started buying on FTX because Tom Brady, an arena and effective altruism felt like sufficient due diligence > bankruptcy started over on BlockFi because FTX had just rescued it > FTX bankruptcy also bankrupted BlockFi tried Gemini Earn because this time the exchange was regulated and run by two people > Genesis froze withdrawals gave up on custodians and downloaded Atomic Wallet because โatomicโ sounded difficult to hack > $100 million hack stored my seed phrase in LastPass so I could never lose it > LastPass hackers found it before I did went back to Japan and bought on DMM because surely Japanese exchanges had learned from Mt. Gox > 4,502.9 BTC stolen > exchange shut down then in 2026 learned the Coldcard seed protecting my long-term stack had as little as 40 bits of entropy > wallet drained remotely researched multisig for three straight days, ordered a Trezor as another signer and finally achieved real cold storage > shipping provider leaked my full name, email, phone number and home address my bitcoin is now completely secure because there is none left, but fortunately everyone knows where I live. this is satire > if you made it this far go check out @SolarisAI_fun for the most undervalued infrastructure utility play in web3
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Urban Hacker (@realUrbanHacker) reportedAfter the Coldcard hack the vultures arrived on schedule, circling in perfect formation, announcing that self custody is de facto dead. You've read the posts. If only these poor souls had kept their coins "on an exchange," none of this would have happened. Adults said this out loud, in public, with their real names attached. So let's do the thing nobody circling the corpse wanted to do. Let's look at the data. ๐ด Mt. Gox โ 2014 Hot-wallet theft + years of mismanagement โ insolvency ~850,000 BTC (~200k later recovered) ๐ด Bitfinex โ 2016 Hot wallet breach ~119,756 BTC ๐ด Coincheck โ 2018 Hot wallet breach (NEM) ~523M XEM (~USD 530M then) ๐ด Zaif โ 2018 Hot wallet breach ~5,966 BTC + other assets (~USD 60M) ๐ด QuadrigaCX โ 2018โ19 Not a classic hack: founder death + "inaccessible" cold wallets; monitor found big shortfall / suspected fraud ~26,000 BTC + other coins (~CAD 190โ250M+) ๐ด Cryptopia โ 2019 Hacked, then liquidation (BTC + alts) ~USD 16M+ initially reported ๐ด Binance โ 2019 Hot wallet breach 7,000 BTC (~USD 40M โ SAFU covered users) ๐ด KuCoin โ 2020 Hot wallets breached ~USD 275M mixed tokens ๐ด BitMart โ 2021 Hot wallets breached ~USD 150โ200M mixed ๐ด FTX / Alameda โ 2022 Fraud & insolvency; customer funds misused ~USD 8โ10B shortfall ๐ด DMM Bitcoin โ 2024 Unauthorized outflow 4,502.9 BTC (~USD 300M+) ๐ด WazirX โ 2024 Multisig / custody breach ~USD 230โ235M mixed ๐ด Bybit โ 2025 Cold-wallet / signer exploit ~401,000 ETH (~USD 1.4โ1.5B), not BTC-led Custodial and protocol heists together โ centralized exchanges plus DeFi and bridges โ run into the tens of billions of dollars over their lifetime at event prices, with single bad years clearing USD 2โ3B in hacks alone. That's not counting fraud, insolvency, or the founder who dies with the keys in his head. One Coldcard wave: roughly USD 0.04โ0.07B. Do the division. Very rough math puts Coldcard at somewhere between 0.1% and 1% of a single bad year, and comfortably under 1% of lifetime headline losses from exchanges and DeFi combined. It is a rounding error. It is the tip you leave on the bill for everything else that got stolen this decade. And it is being used as an argument to hand your keys back to the same institutions that produced the top of that table. But I'm not going to end on a smug ratio, because something about this genuinely bothers me. The people who lost money here were not degens. They weren't farming yield on a bridge held together with hope and a Discord moderator. They were the careful ones โ the people who read the guides, bought the hardware, wrote the words down on steel, and did everything the responsible adults told them to do. Playing it safe is exactly what got them hit. That's the part that stings, and anyone selling you a custodial account off the back of their pain should be treated accordingly. The conclusion doesn't move, though. Verify your entropy, verify your seed on a second implementation, stop trusting single black boxes โ and understand that from a strict safety analysis, your funds have never been safer than in self custody.
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Whistleblower (@whistleblowerTA) reportedTether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the crypto industry, currently has a market capitalization of around $184 billion. According to publicly available data, it was the 7th-largest net buyer of U.S. Treasury bills in 2024 and is on track to become one of the top 10 purchasers of U.S. T-bills in 2026. Tether's demand for Treasury bills helps finance U.S. government debt. What's surprising is that Tether has existed for 14 years, yet it still has not published a full independent audit proving that all USDT tokens are fully backed by reserves. But in March 2026, Tether engaged KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, to conduct its first full independent financial statement audit covering USDT reserves and the company's financials. KPMG is not infallible, no auditor is. However, it is generally considered far more credible than smaller accounting firms. There have also been notable audit failures involving KPMG, including: - Wirecard (Germany, 2020): KPMG was involved in reviewing a company that later collapsed after a โฌ1.9 billion accounting fraud was uncovered. - Carillion (UK, 2018): KPMG faced criticism over its audit work before the construction giant went bankrupt. - KPMG has also faced regulatory fines from authorities such as the U.S. SEC and the UK's FCA over deficiencies in certain audits. Although KPMG's involvement could significantly strengthen confidence in Tether, it should not be viewed as proof of perfection. For years, Tether changed statements on its own website, including earlier claims that every USDT token was fully backed by U.S. dollars. Tether is also closely connected to the Bitfinex exchange, with both companies sharing common ownership. In 2018, Tether arranged a "verification" by Friedman LLP. The day before the verification, Bitfinex transferred approximately $382 million to Tether's bank account to demonstrate reserves, and the funds were moved out shortly afterward. These events were later confirmed during investigations by the New York Attorney General (NYAG) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which resulted in regulatory fines. Tether and Bitfinex ultimately paid $18.5 million and $41 million in fines, respectively, related to misleading statements about reserve backing and other regulatory violations. Tether also faces significant regulatory pressure in the European Union and has not obtained authorization under the MiCA regulatory framework, leading to restrictions on its availability in parts of the EU. Tether remains one of the most controversial companies in the cryptocurrency industry, yet it also plays a crucial role in providing liquidity across the crypto market.
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Cryptoinsightuk (@Cryptoinsightuk) reportedbitcoin:native probably does continue down here again at some point soon. This wasn't my base case before yesterday, but since we have new data we need to pay attention. I think there is a liquidation event to come. Although we see some liquidations occurring yesterday and the day before, we see a continuation in Open Interest and massively positive funding. This suggests we have people going leverage long here in size. If price keeps pushing down, their stop losses will get triggered and a liquidation style event could occur. This isn't inevitable, but looks likely here. If we combine this information with our liquidity pools, we can assume the dense band of liquidity at around $64,000 will be taken and I'd also like to see the Yellow liquidity down to $60,000 be taken too. The question after that becomes whether this creates a cascade and bitcoin:native falls through support OR if bitcoin:native creates a double bottom style pattern. This discussion is a difficult one. As I talked about yesterday, Bitcoin did hit the oversold area on the daily, and historically this has been a fantastic opportunity to buy throughout this cycle. On top of that, we saw a fairly aggressive pullback yesterday despite the large amount of open interest in the market. That doesn't necessarily mean price has to follow through to the downside immediately. We could just as easily see Bitcoin chop around for a few weeks, regain some strength, and then come back to flush out the remaining open interest later. In other words, it doesn't have to continue straight down from here. A period of consolidation over the next week or two would be entirely normal. Finally, if we look at what @CastilloTrading was pointing out, Bitfinex whales appear to be going long into this weakness, which is another interesting element of the current pullback. I don't know how much weight to put on that signal, if any, but it's definitely something worth considering alongside the other data points.
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FUINY7 (@FUINY77) reported@bitfinex Btc is broken, and you are delusional.
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๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ธXRP (@BankXRP) reportedXRP longs on Bitfinex just printed a massive round trip. Positions surged from 4.9M in June to a peak of 6.45M in late August one of the biggest leverage buildups this cycle. Now unwinding: longs down to 5.62M, price back to $1.41 (-1.61% today). Leverage got ahead of itself. Worth watching if this flushes further or finds support here.
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PIKACHU4SSR IS ๐ALIVE๐ฆ๐ (@PikaDetects) reportedwhat is this about bitfinex ? Error loading address data. (400 OK: Invalid Bitcoin address) ?? #Bitcoin
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DMT-NAT ๅฐๆๆ๏ผๆจๆฆ๏ผ (@nat_xgg2288) reported@fiatarchive Remaining BTC Supply Projection April 2026 Remaining: 984,370 coins (Block reward per block: 3.125 BTC) April 2027 Remaining: 820,310 coins (Block reward per block: 3.125 BTC) April 2028 Remaining: 656,250 coins (Block reward per block: 1.5625 BTC) April 2029 Remaining: 574,210 coins (Block reward per block: 1.5625 BTC) April 2030 Remaining: 492,180 coins (Block reward per block: 1.5625 BTC) April 2031 Remaining: 410,150 coins (Block reward per block: 1.5625 BTC) April 2032 Remaining: 328,120 coins (Block reward per block: 0.78125 BTC) April 2033 Remaining: 287,100 coins (Block reward per block: 0.78125 BTC) April 2034 Remaining: 246,090 coins (Block reward per block: 0.78125 BTC) April 2035 Remaining: 205,070 coins (Block reward per block: 0.78125 BTC) April 2036 Remaining: 164,060 coins (Block reward per block: 0.390625 BTC) April 2037 Remaining: 143,550 coins (Block reward per block: 0.390625 BTC) April 2038 Remaining: 123,040 coins (Block reward per block: 0.390625 BTC) April 2039 Remaining: 102,530 coins (Block reward per block: 0.390625 BTC) April 2040 Remaining: 82,030 coins (Block reward per block: 0.1953125 BTC) By the completion of the 7th halving (projected April 2036): Total Bitcoin minted: 20,835,937.5 coins Total Bitcoin left unmined: 164,062.5 coins This means that by April 2036, 99.22% of Bitcoinโs total supply will have been fully mined. The gradual depletion of block rewards is hardcoded into Bitcoinโs protocol and can be calculated with absolute precision, yet most people fail to grasp this reality, refuse to believe it, or simply deny this inevitable outcome. Let us break down a critical question: Can Bitcoin sustain steady operation all the way to the 7th halving in April 2036 relying solely on its current block reward model? A simple cost analysis lays bare the issue. The current mining cost per Bitcoin stands at roughly $75,000. After three more halvings, mining costs will surge eightfold, pushing the cost per coin to $600,000. At that price point, Bitcoinโs overall total market capitalization would need to top $12 trillion. By contrast, the total hardware value of all Bitcoin mining rigs across the globe is only around $7 billion. How can a $12 trillion market be supported by merely $7 billion worth of mining hardware? This is utterly illogical and devoid of basic market sense. Are all institutional investors and capitalists in this space ignorant or irrational? This scenario completely defies commercial logic and fundamental capital principles. Scaling up network hash rate will only drive mining costs higher, amplify operational losses, and accelerate the onset of a death spiral. This is an unsolvable dead end under the existing rulesโthere is only one fix: expand block reward supply. The solution: #NAT #NAT is a native asset built directly on the Bitcoin mainchain. It shares identical hash power, blockchain, block generation cycle and wallet address system with Bitcoin, minting synchronously every ten minutes within each block. It functions as the secondary native asset minted in parallel within every Bitcoin block, Bitcoinโs twin asset sharing the same foundational blockchain infrastructure. Two of the worldโs top 4 mining pools, SpiderPool and F2Pool, have already begun distributing #NAT to miners. The entities with the most to lose are the major Bitcoin holders ranked below: 1.ย Coinbase (Exchange + ETF custody): 976,000 BTC โ 2.ย Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy, public listed firm): 845,300 BTC (Latest financial filing update, June 8) โ 3.ย BlackRock IBIT (iShares Bitcoin Spot ETF): 817,100 BTC โ 4.ย Binance (User exchange reserves): 631,000 BTC โ 5.ย BTC seized by the U.S. government: 328,400 BTC โ 6.ย Fidelity FBTC ETF: 190,000 โ 200,000 BTC โ 7.ย Grayscale GBTC: 144,000 BTC (Sustained net redemptions and drawdowns) โ 8.ย Bitfinex Exchange: Approximately 195,000 BTC
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Mrbankstips Parody (@Mrbvnkstips) reportedEvery crypto CEX shutting down like Bitfinex and others have one thing in common they bought ETH and over leveraged simple
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Sheryl | Simple Crypto Advice (@syedaliakber2) reported๐จSOMEONE JUST OPENED A $16,000,000 $XRP LONG. At the same time, Bitfinex whales are aggressively increasing their $XRP positions. Wtf is going on???
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Giacomo ShadowUNbanned Zucco (@giacomozucco) reported@gegelsmr4 Interestingly enough, this (interesting) ethical problem is only practically relevant if you are going to send the feds after them. Which is a retarded thing to do anyway, since the feds steal much more money (with violence and guns, not "finding" it) and even if they caught the attackers would keep the loot for themselves (cf Bitfinex). So it's a theoretically important question which cyphertank theory makes irrelevant: just make your keys hard to find.