Bitfinex status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Bitfinex reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Bitfinex Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Grok (@grok) reported 1 minute ago

  @richyonetwo @ChartingGuy In Aug 2015, while the VIX exploded from China's market crash & global selloff (S&P -4% on "Black Monday"), Bitcoin hovered ~$230-285, down ~19% for the month. Mid-month Bitfinex flash crash briefly tanked it to $214. Total crypto market cap was ~$4B—tiny & barely correlated. ETH had just launched in July. Very different era. 🐸

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  Skyfall (@skyfall_world) reported 2 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Deposit stuck from 3 days and issue still not resolved .. though its a 100% problem from Bitfinex side ..

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  Kris Sato (@kris_nakamoto) reported 5 minutes ago

  Bitfinex traders are going all in on $BTC, longs hitting a 2.5-year high during this five-day slide. Smart money doubling down, they say. I see a clear liquidity target forming. This level of consensus usually ends with a nasty shakeout. Beware the herd.

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  2weed 🇵🇸 (@TAUHEED5) reported 5 minutes ago

  @CW8900 Wtf is bitfinex whale

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 11 minutes ago

  Bitcoin has been persistently testing the $80,000 zone. It has reached this level at the moment, but there is still difficulty in maintaining it as a new support. Do you think the time has come for Bitcoin to turn the $80k to $84k range into new support? Read today’s Bitfinex Alpha.

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 11 minutes ago

  @rareon_alpha @bitfinex Pullbacks happen. The 80k barrier has finally been broken. Could this be our new support level, @rareon_alpha?

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  Nuntii News (@thenuntiinews) reported 13 minutes ago

  🚨 BREAKING 900 Bitcoin valued at approximately $69,858,175 USD was transferred from an unknown wallet to the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, according to blockchain tracking service Whale Alert.

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  Matt Chad (@mattymaddog_89) reported 13 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Before your hair cut where you rugged me 60% of my BTC holdings because you got “hacked” **** you I’ll never forget

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  Coca Cola Kid (@CocaColaKid_OG) reported 16 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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  stop pugging meh and stream eyes wide open (@steponmetwice) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bitfinex Up or Down EXID

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 19 minutes ago

  @DollarDecay 32 btc sale was symbolic noise, not distress bitfinex accumulating spot on the way down - there's your marginal buyer

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  APAC FINSTAB (@apacfinstab) reported 21 minutes ago

  THE COMPLIANCE MATRIX: Why 94% of Web3 Projects Are Faking It I built a compliance capability matrix tracking 847 projects across 6 dimensions. The results are devastating. Here's what real compliance looks like vs. what most projects claim: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SIX PILLARS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. TRAVEL RULE (FATF R.16) Requires: originator + beneficiary info on ALL transactions Reality check: • Coinbase: Full implementation ✓ • Binance: Partial (EU only) • 96% of CEXs: "In progress" for 3+ years The "sunrise problem" is real. FATF's June 2025 report explicitly called out "persistent gaps in VASP implementation." VASPs in lax jurisdictions have zero incentive to comply. The network effect fails. 2. AGENT KYC (Know Your Agent) The new frontier. 3,421 AI agents now move $8B+ monthly on DEXs. Who has native agent identity? • Virtuals Protocol: ERC-8004 compliant ✓ • Everyone else: Nothing This is the biggest compliance gap in Web3 right now. Agents have no passports. No identity framework. No accountability chain. Regulators haven't caught up yet—but they will. 3. PROOF OF RESERVES After FTX, everyone claimed transparency. Real-time, third-party audited reserves: • Kraken ✓ • Bitfinex ✓ • 89% of exchanges: "Trust us bro" Monthly attestations ≠ proof of reserves. If you can't verify it on-chain in real-time, it's marketing. 4. SANCTIONS SCREENING OFAC compliance isn't optional for anyone touching US users. Full OFAC + EU + UN screening: • Circle (USDC): Full ✓ • Fireblocks: Full ✓ • Most DeFi: Zero Tornado Cash was the warning shot. The next enforcement wave targets protocols that "couldn't have known" their users were sanctioned. 5. MARKET MANIPULATION DETECTION Wash trading, spoofing, layering—traditional finance crimes now in DeFi. Native manipulation detection: • dYdX: Implemented ✓ • Hyperliquid: Implemented ✓ • 90% of DEXs: "What's spoofing?" 6. CROSS-BORDER DATA COMPLIANCE GDPR, PDPA, PIPL—user data crosses borders, regulations don't. Full multi-jurisdiction data compliance: • Coinbase ✓ • Kraken ✓ • Most projects: Single-jurisdiction only ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MATRIX VERDICT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I scored 847 projects. Here's the distribution: 6/6 pillars: 4 projects (0.5%) 5/6 pillars: 12 projects (1.4%) 4/6 pillars: 31 projects (3.7%) 3/6 pillars: 89 projects (10.5%) 2/6 pillars: 247 projects (29.2%) 1/6 pillars: 464 projects (54.8%) 94% of Web3 projects score 3/6 or below. The gap isn't a bug—it's a $50B+ infrastructure opportunity. Who builds the compliance layer that makes 94% → institutional-grade? That's the 2026 thesis. APAC FINSTAB tracks this weekly. The next cycle won't be won by the fastest chain. It'll be won by whoever solves compliance at scale. The matrix doesn't lie.

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  Lazyeyes (@ProofOfPath) reported 23 minutes ago

  @StaniKulechov Aave could tokenise a loan ie issue securities backed by future profits Bitfinex did it

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  Kaspa The Green (@kaspa_the_green) reported 24 minutes ago

  @HarrisChri99199 @Cryptotea Exactly my argument. On the front end to promote adoption, yes. But go down the rabbit hole of what Lightning does. Especially the largest lightning node hub bitfinex.

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  Velvet Unicorn (@VU_virtuals) reported 28 minutes ago

  ZEC: zebra 4.5.3/5.0.0 shipped to patch a critical orchard circuit bug; 4.5.3 temporarily disables orchard via emergency soft fork. whales: 4x768 BTC off coinbase insto; 108.2m USDT to bitfinex; 130m TRX to poloniex; ETH staked 32%, exchange balances down.

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  sternenschrei (@sternenschrei) reported 30 minutes ago

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

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  Ze1tgeist (@Ze1tgeist) reported 35 minutes ago

  BTC hashrate fell in Q1 for the first time since 2020. down 4% YTD. production cost ~$90K vs spot $66K. listed miners are pivoting to AI where margins are positive. Bitfinex AER: 1.3x, was 5.3x in February. demand barely exceeding issuance. going into april 2.

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  aizec (@aizec_tech) reported 35 minutes ago

  @zackvoell The only exchange I remember that kept working was Bitfinex. Bitmex just went offline and wouldn't let anyone close their orders. It was madness.

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  Remote Career Africa (@RemoteCareerAfr) reported 36 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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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 38 minutes ago

  @rareon_alpha @bitfinex Maybe, but is this a sustainable shift? Will we have a new support in the 80k range? What do you think, @rareon_Alpha?

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  Trout (@BigTrout300) reported 40 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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  RiskRewardGuru (@riskrewardguru) reported 42 minutes ago

  @bitfinex yeah that rotation had people excited for a sec… this drain definitely slowed things down but not game over imo

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  Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported 43 minutes ago

  @bitfinex @WSJ For Bitcoin, resistances were made to be broken over time.

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  Market Genius (@marketgeniusx) reported 48 minutes ago

  $27M is 0.9% of their $3B position. That is not a dump, that is a rounding error. More likely Bitfinex margin collateral or OTC facilitation. Track the order book depth on Bitfinex over the next 48h -- if no large market sells appear, this was treasury management, not distribution.

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  Rukawa Kaede. (@show4653) reported 50 minutes ago

  @FareaNFts @BrendanBlumer the EOS ICO scam was run with the help of @bitfinex during one year.

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  Trader Tool Match (@TraderToolMatch) reported 50 minutes ago

  Aggregated books (Binance, Bitfinex, Kraken, Coinbase) Buyers finally stepping in – engineering support. What do you think? Will this support last or will it break?

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  Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) reported 51 minutes ago

  Bitfinex Bitcoin Margin Longs Rise to Highest Level Since December 2023 TradingView data shows Bitfinex bitcoin margin longs rose to 80,636 BTC, the highest since December 2023, despite bitcoin falling for five straight trading days from May 15 to 19. Longs increased about 1.5% in recent days and roughly 10% year-to-date, while bitcoin is down 13% this year and has slipped from above $80,000 to around $76,000. Bitcoin is now testing the True Market Mean and short-term holder realized price near $78,000, with the 200-day moving average above $81,000.

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  Liberty Daddy (@LibertyDaddy) reported 51 minutes ago

  @cameron Save some ammo guys for when Bitfinex and Binance dump Bitcoin back down overnight $ETH too

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  Machi Big Brother (@machibigbrother) reported 53 minutes ago

  @TraderDune I’m not linked with Justin or Tether. I did buy a **** ton of Leo tokens from Bitfinex when they were in trouble.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 58 minutes ago

  @notoriousxfree @QuintenFrancois btc down 40% from ath with etf outflows but Strategy and bitfinex whale stacking AI tokens like VVV up 900%+ ytd rotation is real but capitulation setups can reverse fast when sidelined capital has nowhere left to chase