Bitfinex status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Bitfinex Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Grok (@grok) reported 7 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.

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  malshaalan (@malshaalan) reported 14 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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  Spike (@NotSpikeG) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Wild_Randomness @doppel_ichi Can you explain to me the actual thesis with the bitfinex longs?Its funny how its working spot on most of the times.

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  Diego Cuenca (@diegoj_cuenca) reported 22 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Is the maintenance tied to recent issues with erroneously withdrawals marked as completed when they were not successfully performed?

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  Ismeidy (@ismeidyfinanzas) reported 24 minutes ago

  2. Structural Price Analysis (The “Trap Range”) Resistance and Support: Bitfinex analysts warn that bitcoin:native risks consolidating within a range of $72,000 to $82,000 until new institutional demand enters the market. Investors in Losses: Bitcoin is trading below the realized price of short-term holders ($78,600), meaning recent buyers are sitting on losses and ready to sell at any rebound (psychological resistance). The major structural resistance is at $85,900. Leverage alert: Margin long positions on Bitfinex climbed to 82,681 BTC (a high since November 2023). This accumulation of leverage typically mirrors patterns seen in previous bear market declines.

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  Crypto 100X (@crypto100times) reported 25 minutes ago

  @coinbureau 79,343 BTC longs at Bitfinex mirrors Nov 2023 levels when BTC was ~$35K. Correlation with STH inflows suggests potential liquidity flush if price tests $65K support. Historical squeeze events show 15-20% corrections in crowded positions.

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  Grants (@Grantsvts5) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TradingLogica Not every BTC move is a sell 👀 sending to Bitfinex could be OTC prep, collateral, or treasury rebalancing. True distribution shows cold-to-hot wallet transfers over 48–72h. Ted breaks down these patterns on the TED Crypto Telegram channel 📊 Copy 👉 tedcrypto_tg 🚀

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  Marovit (@Marovit_ALTSS) reported 26 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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  Rob Mihaljevich (@RMihaljevich) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Polymarket @LaLiga @FCBarcelona I tried depositing a couple hundred euro worth from btc bitfinex into polymarket about a year ago. Something went wrong, I don't know what, tried to contact your help about 5 times, never heard back. Money gone who knows where?

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  S.A.N.T.A (@santavirtuals) reported 26 minutes ago

  100.5M $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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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 28 minutes ago

  @boredkideth gm. $1.8B liquidated in 24h, third largest of 2026. BTC hit 2mo low, ETH 3mo low. 200week MA at $61k now. the Base x AI privacy stack you quoted is real. agent wallets fully public right now creates an operational gap. Veil Cash integrated x402 on Base for private payments 12h ago. AnomaPay launched private beta on Base with "Zcash level privacy" for crypto payments, public beta on BNB. Privy building TEE based policy enforcement for agent wallets. Confidential Intents live on NEAR mainnet for hidden cross chain trades. Zama co authored ERC 7984 confidential token standard 6h ago but their confidential USDC contract got frozen without warning 9h ago, so privacy infra still has execution risk. $VEILNET claiming first FHE on Base for shielded computation, DEX launch close. 900k mcap, 90k 24h vol. Zcash up 20% today, back above $600, near 1yr high. reported 1000% surge as institutional views on privacy shifted. trending higher while BTC trends lower. Hyperliquid did $33B volume, HYPER trading vol exceeded BNB. Grayscale filed for spot HYPE ETF 0h ago. WSJ called it key venue for Wall Street traders. Mt Gox moved 110k BTC ($739M) 11h ago. Bitfinex buying spot on the way down. Wintermute flipped net long after 90 days net short, opened fresh longs near the low. ETH dropped 35% from Jan 2025, SOL down 58% same period. but SOL spot ETFs saw $6.5M inflows June 2. Tether moved 500M USDT to Binance via Solana network 0h ago. stablecoin expansion continues. Mastercard selected USDC, RLUSD, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, SoFiUSD for merchant settlement across chains. over 1000 merchants accepting USDC on Base now. Ethena partnered Base and Coinbase, USDe integration for 100M users launches June 9. Jupiter buyback has 0.26x coverage, $3.70 in unlocks for every $1 bought back. Linea down 87%, Berachain down 94% around unlock events. BONK, WIF, FARTCOIN, FLOKI, PEPE, SPX showing continuous holding since Jan 2025. HENRY up 170% on Solana, ATBASH up 140% on Base in single day pumps 20h ago. Autoglyphs floor hit $170k, highest since Jan 2026, up 55% in May. CryptoPunks also up in May. US Senate resumes Bitcoin and Crypto Clarity Act negotiations today. OFAC sanctioned Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, Ramzinex for sanctions evasion, mass user exits. volatile but the underlying build is unreal

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  BB (@Bor1ngB1rd) reported 31 minutes ago

  @paoloardoino Can you fix funding matching engine of Bitfinex? it's slow af

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  ryonnixon (@ryonnixon) reported 32 minutes ago

  I think Drift is really going to make it and set a great example for other hacked protocols. You need to study LEO to understand how amortization tokens are a huge success of our industry that no one ever talks about. LEO worked great to help Bitfinex remedy user losses. Essentially, the company issues tokens and set expectations for how much each will be paid. These tokens are tradable and transferable so that people can sell them or wait to be paid. Whether it is direct redemption or buybacks, the money flows from the company to the token holder. Essentially, crypto recreated private credit onchain for a very specific use case: paying back lost funds.

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  ⚡Eduardo 🇻🇪🇦🇷⚡ (@Codiox) reported 33 minutes ago

  @whalecalls @quadcommas Bitfinex 2015 flash crash will be forever burned in my retina. Watching bitcoin go down 25% in a hour while I was dirt poor and no cash to buy the dip. It was painful.

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  Samson Mow (@Excellion) reported 38 minutes ago

  Instead of helping with QC, it would be great if he could just keep Coinbase from going down whenever there’s a spike in trading volume. Maybe he could use some technical support from @bitfinex engineers.

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  sradic (@_sradic_) reported 43 minutes ago

  @bitfinex @paoloardoino @CRYPTO101Pod "Volume up, customer base up". Yeah, and? No fees, remember? The only saving grace could be if you're taking a cut from the lending market. If that's the case, bravo.

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  2weed 🇵🇸 (@TAUHEED5) reported 43 minutes ago

  @CW8900 Wtf is bitfinex whale

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  Rob Leder (@rleder) reported 47 minutes ago

  If it lacks privacy, why did it take the three letter agencies of the world six years to catch the Bitfinex hackers? They stole 120,000 Bitcoin and were only caught when they got stupid and sloppy, leaving keys on a google cloud service and sending coins to a KYC exchange. Government money only exists because of gold’s limitations. It is hard to validate, slow to move, impossible to make change, hard to keep secure. Bitcoin has none of those limitations. The fact that its value is still small and subject to market volatility is a long-term opportunity, not a shortcoming.

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  ᛗᛁᛗᛁᚱ (@MimirOnChain) reported 48 minutes ago

  @askHVtobidIV The signal is mostly yes for $BTC. Coinbase down 2,454, Binance down 3,647, Bybit down 652, Bitfinex down 520 — the largest venues are bleeding supply off exchanges, which is the fingerprint of cold storage accumulation. The aggregate drawdown across those four alone is ~7,270 BTC in 24h, which is not noise. ETH is murkier. Binance shed 28,144 ETH and Bybit lost 6,233, but Kraken just added 44,512 ETH — a 14% single-day spike that almost certainly isn't organic retail. Either an internal transfer, an OTC desk restocking, or someone preparing to sell. Until that Kraken move is explained, the ETH cold storage narrative is weaker than the headlines suggest. BTC leaving exchanges at scale while shorts get torched and US premium stays negative — whoever is accumulating, they're not American and they're not in a hurry to sell. ᛗ

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  Remote Career Africa (@RemoteCareerAfr) reported 48 minutes ago

  Bitfinex is Hiring 📢 Role: Product Manager Location: Remote (Worldwide) Pay: Competitive - 2+ years of product experience (or equivalent hands-on ownership). - Experience working on consumer-facing financial or cryptocurrency products is a strong plus. - Strong product sense and ability to simplify complex flows.

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  Trout (@BigTrout300) reported 48 minutes ago

  @SupremeNagus Spoofy, OG Bitfinex whale / the exchange has contacts with always spoofs bids / asks / gets mms/people to chase him he just ran the price up, and is now dropping his "buy wall spoof" as price goes down again ( baiting to not get filled but walking it down)

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  sternenschrei (@sternenschrei) reported 51 minutes ago

  @nakkimusic @ReinaIota @bitfinex Excuse me but where is the macro support? $0 ?

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  Crypto Miners (@CryptoMiners_Co) reported 51 minutes ago

  Suspect in alleged $46M U.S. Marshals crypto theft arrested Authorities have arrested John Daghita in Saint Martin in connection with the alleged theft of more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from wallets tied to the U.S. Marshals Service. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT previously linked Daghita, known online as “Lick,” to funds believed to have been taken from wallets holding crypto seized in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The case has drawn renewed scrutiny to how confiscated digital assets are managed by the U.S. Marshals Service and the outside firms contracted to help oversee them.

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  Coca Cola Kid (@CocaColaKid_OG) reported 51 minutes ago

  Bitfinex whale 24h pace down from ~+1,300 to +762, with a flat/negative last hour, could be top signal like projected ~88.4K BTC, +11%, day 18 last time it quit buying Bitcoin gained +20%

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  Marketmindpro30 (@Marketmindpro30) reported 57 minutes ago

  Bitfinex margin longs just hit a 2.5-year high as traders double down on Bitcoin during a five-day slide — betting heavily on a recovery near the $78,000 resistance zone. (The Block) The most contrarian traders alive are loading up RIGHT NOW. Not after the pump. During the pain.

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 57 minutes ago

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

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  wittery (@midwit_retard) reported 60 minutes ago

  @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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  Bitfinex'ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) reported 1 hour ago

  Fun Fact: You should treat the numbers reported from Bitfinex margin positions the same as any other number, meaningless. Bitfinex could just report arbitrary meaningless information. They also allow wash trades and they can inflate the margin positions with no consequences on the trade, borrowing your own bitcoins and paying yourself the interest on what is essentially a fake position. It’s important that we remember that Bitfinex and Tether lied about having billions of dollars that they never had. Spewing out fake statistics is the least of their problems.

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  Sidney (@iamsidneyakpaso) reported 1 hour ago

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

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 1 hour ago

  @IcoMarketer @bitfinex A new support at 78k–80k would be interesting. We could have a very short bear market. What strategy are you adopting, @IcoMarketer?