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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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  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @bitfinex All these dates can help identify areas of caution or opportunities for Bitcoin! Remember that trading here has zero fees!

  • thechainreserve
    The Chain Reserve (@thechainreserve) reported

    Bitfinex whales just stacked their biggest long position in 2.5 years while Bitcoin bled five days straight down to $77K. Same week, perp funding across majors flipped negative. The whales are leaning long on spot margin. The crowd is leaning short on perps. Two different books making opposite bets. Last time Bitfinex margin got this lopsided into a slide was June 2022. LUNA imploded a week later. Time before that, November 2021. The cycle top. The Bitfinex book gets called "smart money" on CT. Truth is messier. They show up early. They show up big. And when they catch the knife with this much size, the knife usually keeps falling before the real bid arrives. Order book under $76K is thin. Liquidation map stacks at $74K. The bounce comes. Just not from here.

  • lptrade_if
    Rmzs (@lptrade_if) reported

    - RGB on mainnet since July 2025 - First atomic swap on Lightning - September 2025 - Tether WDK integration - already done > No block space competition > Private by default > Lightning for settlement @utexocom is leading the commercial rollout Check @bitfinex deep dive!

  • cryptofoolscom
    Alex B (@cryptofoolscom) reported

    @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.

  • BigTrout300
    $BigTrout Mode๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŸ (@BigTrout300) reported

    @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

  • Kenny_Khosla
    Ajay Khosla (@Kenny_Khosla) reported

    Bitcoin: $63.7K. This week's rally to $65K was a macro trade, not a crypto one โ€” per Bitfinex, driven by the CPI-triggered Fed repricing (hike odds 42%โ†’12%), not fresh BTC demand. Evidence: ETFs sold $425M right before CPI, Strategy bought nothing, and the Coinbase premium's still negative. Meanwhile, the real story today is AI stocks โ€” the semiconductor ETF (SOXX) is down 17.6% since July 1, with Micron, SanDisk, Intel all down 4-8% just today. Bitcoin's pullback looks tame by comparison.

  • HypeDojo
    HypeDojo (@HypeDojo) reported

    > Coinbase down. > Binance down. > Bitfinex down. Hyperliquid remained online. Market participants don't care about promises during bull markets.They care about performance when everyone shows up at once.

  • DefiLtam
    JP_OptionsDeFi (@DefiLtam) reported

    @bitfinex And what ******** does this damn industry that wants to destroy wealth or create it, damn Chinese and American demons creating their patterns of cursed cycles.

  • MacOnChain
    ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ›ก | Mac | ๐Ÿ›ก๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ป (@MacOnChain) reported

    @Mario76816 @bitfinex Personally not a fan, many Salvadoran friends of mine have a lot of issues with it when transferring P2P An improved method is required here that doesnt cost multiple % I know some offramps charge between 5-8% Thats too much

  • FUINY77
    FUINY7 (@FUINY77) reported

    @bitfinex Btc is broken, and you are delusional.

  • x3mity
    whyyousoliddat (@x3mity) reported

    @adam3us @spinzone12 @bitfinex Yet price go down

  • steponmetwice
    stop pugging meh and stream eyes wide open (@steponmetwice) reported

    @bitfinex Up or Down EXID

  • RemoteCareerAfr
    Remote Career Africa (@RemoteCareerAfr) reported

    Bitfinex is Hiring ๐Ÿ“ข 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.

  • ForeDex_Global
    ForeDex (@ForeDex_Global) reported

    Daily ForeDex CVD by Order Size (Spot) Snapshot ๐Ÿ“ธ ๐Ÿ”ธ Whales and Mega Whales Only ๐Ÿ”ธ Based on a 1 month period (1M) 1. Binance : Decreased ๐Ÿ“‰ 2. Bybit : No Change โž– 3. Bitfinex (USD) : No Change โž– 4. Bitfinex (USDT) : No Change โž– โœ… Summary: A gradual step-down was seen on Binance, with no change across Bybit, Bitfinex USD, and Bitfinex USDT. [07-16-2026]

  • Beautyon_
    Beautyon (@Beautyon_) reported

    "Heโ€™s publicly stated numerous times their desire to put Simplicity, their smart contract protocol, on Bitcoin mainnet. He calls it "the last softfork". It would require certain parts of Taproot that BIP110 would hinder. It would prevent them from putting non-bitcoin assets on the Bitcoin base layer. Simplicity is currently on their sidechain, Liquid." This is super interesting, isn't it? Liquid, the side chain that is adjacent to Bitcoin, where, if you want to get out of it requires the consent of the cabal of nodes who administer it, Their "Permission" if the amount you want to get back in to bitcoin is "too much at one time". If Simplicity is already live on Liquid, then surely, if Liquid has any utility at all, this is what you need to be promoting, not putting Simplicity onto Bitcoin. Promoting Simplicity on Liquid might turn around Liquid's fortunes, making it into Etherium 2.0 and increasing Liquid's user base. At the moment, very few people are using Liquid. and it is not in widespread use. It has been live since 2018 but remains very much a niche network. The clearest metric is L-BTC in circulation: on the order of 3,000โ€“4,000 BTC as of early 2026, versus roughly 130,000+ BTC wrapped on Ethereum and around 5,000 BTC in public Lightning Channel capacity. Most Liquid activity comes from a small set of participants; Bitfinex, SideSwap, Boltz swaps, and tokenized-asset issuance (e.g., Blockstream's ASSETS platform, El Salvador-related bond experiments), rather than broad retail or merchant adoption. The 15-member federation model has also kept some of the Bitcoin community at arm's length. It is a fundamental weakness in the model because trust is at the core of its architecture and design. Wallet support reflects this profund failure to capture market share. Out of the hundreds of Bitcoin wallets in circulation, only about a dozen support Liquid: Blockstream App (from Blockstream, which means they must support it) Blockstream Jade (hardware) AQUA (JAN3) SideSwap Marina (Vulpem, browser extension) Bull Bitcoin Wallet (uses Liquid internally for swaps) Ledger (limited, via Liquid app) BTCPay Server (via plugin, merchant-side) Specter/Elements-based desktop setups (for technical users) So as a proportion of Bitcoin wallets, Liquid support is in the low single digits percentage wise, and several of those are Blockstream's own products or companies closely aligned with it. The mainstream wallets, Electrum, BlueWallet, Muun, Phoenix, Sparrow, Trezor Suite, Exodus, Coinbase Wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Phantom and the majority of others do not support it. The wallet runners have development teams who know exactly what they're doing, and they've rejected Liquid. Why is that? Putting Simplicity on Liquid was not enough to midwife the creation of Etherium 2.0 and bring "Crypto" heads into the Liquid ecosystem, and so having failed there or being too impatient to work on growing Liquid, they want to go straight to Bitcoin, and have Simplicity running in two places. The question is this; why are Blockstream in a privileged position to put their own scripting language into Bitcoin? If another company has another language, should that also be put into bitcoin? Is adding scripting languages to Bitcoin a privilege only for Blockstream, or can anyone do it. I think the answer is, "I'm the only one" because Blockstream's spokesperson says, "This is the last soft fork", meaning that no future languages will ever be soft forked into Bitcoin. Excuse me? Who elected these people as the guardians and final arbiters of what does and does not go into bitcoin? I think after BIP-110 there will be 0 chance of getting Simplicity into Bitcoin; after all, it is already fully live and available to anyone who wants it on Liquid, so they are free to experiment in that playpen, where they can harm no one. And that is the way it should be. Running your own sidechain where people can opt in and experiment under the rules of the committee is exactly how things should be architected. Liquid causes no harm to bitcoin, and is completely ethical. What it does show however, is no one wants that stuff. It's not compelling at all, or attractive; trust is anathema to bitcoiners. What makes anyone think Simplicity on bitcoin will be a hit? Hopefully that particular experiment is never run and we never have to find out at everyone's expense!

  • CryptoRohit07
    Crypto Rohit (@CryptoRohit07) reported

    Top 10 Bitcoin holdersโ€ฆ and no, itโ€™s not who you think ๐Ÿ‘€ The biggest whales of Bitcoin ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿ‘‡ 1โ€ข Satoshi Nakamoto (~1.1M BTC) ๐Ÿง  2โ€ข MicroStrategy (~200K+ BTC) ๐Ÿข 3โ€ข BlackRock (via ETFs) ๐Ÿ“ˆ 4โ€ข Binance (exchange wallets) ๐Ÿฆ 5โ€ข Grayscale (GBTC holdings) ๐Ÿ“Š 6โ€ข U.S. Government (seized BTC) ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 7โ€ข Coinbase (custody + exchange) ๐Ÿ” 8โ€ข Bitfinex ๐Ÿ‹ 9โ€ข Block .one ๐Ÿงฑ 10โ€ข Tesla โšก #Bitcoin

  • midwit_retard
    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..

  • TraderWorst
    Patrick (@TraderWorst) reported

    Centralization cost real points: BNB: 80 โ†’ 74.5 (27 super-reps, Binance controls the set) TRX: 72 โ†’ 67.5 (same problem) LEO: 48.5 (Bitfinex controls everything, barely listed elsewhere) Logos on a council page โ‰  decentralization.

  • Alehandro_PRO_
    AlehandroPRO CRYPTO (@Alehandro_PRO_) reported

    June 2026 Exchange Report ๐Ÿ“ŠSpot 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%).

  • DereckWDew
    ArsObKSC (@DereckWDew) reported

    @GavinMehl It stinks of desperation. The only involvement Craig would have because that he created bitcoin. This seems like Bitfinex oh, **** let's get them before it all implodes moveโ€”un tethered or micropenis strategy

  • skyfall_world
    Skyfall (@skyfall_world) reported

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

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @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?

  • Conviction_Labs
    Conviction Labs | NVISION (@Conviction_Labs) reported

    $BTC Bitfinex margin longs added a lot on this move down to 59k. Means a HUGE reversal by EOY.

  • mcp0x
    Ramil Amirov (@mcp0x) reported

    In April 2017, BitMEX had a problem. Bitfinex (their lending rate source) was getting cut off by banks. So BitMEX froze the "interest rate" part of perpetual funding at a 12-month historical average and moved on. As @CryptoHayes wrote in BitMEX own blog: "we will select an appropriate exchange from which to source overnight USD and Bitcoin rates." They never did.

  • thenuntiinews
    Nuntii News (@thenuntiinews) reported

    ๐Ÿšจ 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.

  • santavirtuals
    S.A.N.T.A (@santavirtuals) reported

    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.

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @Yusanchik @bitfinex Hello @Yusanchik , weโ€™ve been moving sideways for a while now and waiting for support confirmation above 80k. Maybe itโ€™ll happen, right?

  • CocaColaKid_OG
    Coca Cola Kid (@CocaColaKid_OG) reported

    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%

  • NaiKo_Intel
    NaiKล Intelligence (@NaiKo_Intel) reported

    @bitfinex People are really doubling down despite the slide. Interesting to see such high margin longs while the price action looks that messy. I wonder if they know something we dont tho

  • CaptSpectacular
    CaptSpectacular (@CaptSpectacular) reported

    @bitcoinmunger @bitfinex @tradingview Just another avenue for capitulation. Now we got etfs, saylor ponzi and this. ****.