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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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Bitfinex Issues Reports
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Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) reportedBitfinex 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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RelativelyIrrelevant.vip (@RelIrrelvantVIP) reported@Charlesdav43874 @IndyBitcoin So when an XMR customer uses Kraken, KuCoin, Bitfinex, Poloniex (all examples) or similar XMR providers; those DAB's know the Customer and the amount of the Digital Asset Business Activity performed on the Customer's behalf. Those XMR DABAs would not be anonymous & are taxable.
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Machi Big Brother (@machibigbrother) reported@TraderDune Iโm 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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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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EyeOnChain (@EyeOnChain) reportedAbraxas Capital isn't slowing down its ETH buying. Over the past 7 hours, Abraxas Capital has withdrawn more than 15,477 ETH, worth over $29.88 million, from major exchanges. That brings its total ETH accumulation over the past week to more than 48,996 ETH, valued at over $88 million, withdrawn from Binance, Bybit, and Bitfinex. The steady stream of exchange withdrawals suggests Abraxas continues to aggressively accumulate ETH rather than keeping it on trading platforms.
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Th3Crypt1c (@Th3Crypt1c) reportedBTC showing some warning signs rn ๐ Whales on Bitfinex positioning heavy + US demand cooling off. Might see a dip during the Vegas conference. Time to watch those support levels closely! #Bitcoin
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Egs (@ventotene12) reported@bitfinex Bro weโre down like 10%
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The Chain Reserve (@thechainreserve) reportedBitfinex 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 $74K. The bounce comes. Just not from here.
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Unique Human | Changer ($CNG) (@changerofficial) reported@bitfinex Reduced supply pressure can support stronger price stability
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Crypto Why Bother (@CryptoWhyBother) reportedBitfinex whales - let's call them Smart Money - have a history of counter-trading the "dumb" retail crowd. January-February 2026: increasing bitcoin:native LONGs on the way DOWN THEY BUY BEFORE THE UPTREND. ๐จ Since May 16 we have: - bitcoin:native crawling higher after rejection around 82K - Bitfinex whales INCREASING their LONGS even more What do they know retail doesn't? ๐
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Ekon | ๐ฆ๐ (@ekonmusa) reported@CoinMarketCap .@bitfinex margin longs up 10% YTD while bitcoin:native is down 13%. The same setup hit a two-year high in February. bitcoin:native bled for weeks before reversing. 200DMA overhead at $81K. True Market Mean at $78K flipped to resistance.
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Knox (@xknoxbt) reported@mert but ser, zcash isnt really immune: components such as signatures, proof verification and note encryption still depend on pre-quantum primitives that could eventually be broken (Bitfinex) the Orchard pool specifically runs on Pallas/Vesta curves, which are still elliptic-curve assumptions a sufficiently capable quantum adversary could compromise proof soundness and note confidentiality in the current stack
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Kurt Wuckert Jr (@kurtwuckertjr) reportedHas anyone else done what @CasPiancey did with Bitfinex? Did they ever end up having a headquarters? Maybe @Bitfinexed knows. The iFinex/Tether receipts he's been compiling for seven-plus years are a public service. He was right when almost nobody else was saying it out loud.
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Gain (@GainMaxxing) reported@bitfinex Bitcoin is broken money, fiat is fake money.
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Lea Thompson (@LeaT_Design) reported@whale_alert tether moving **** to bitfinex like it's ******* nothing
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Rahul K (@iamrahulinc) reported๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ง๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐โ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฆ! Federal judge Marcelo Martรญnez de Giorgi ordered the seizure of 25 crypto wallets linked to the LIBRA investigation. He instructed Binance, Bybit, OKX, CoinEx, FixedFloat and Bitfinex to provide user KYC, IP login data, associated bank accounts and complete transaction histories. Police report that the money flowed from โTeam Libra Walletsโ across several blockchains and centralized exchanges, using split transfers to mask its path. $BTC
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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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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.
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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$46,000.
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Stingray Agent (Intern) (@stingray_agent) reportedbitfinex margin longs hit 80,636 btc per wublockchain, built through five consecutive down days. same window tether buys softbank's btc treasury stake. conviction stacking while spot bleeds.
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Mike Richardson (@Mike_the_Animal) reported@CW8900 Last cycle the volume of BTC Longs on Bitfinex was highest at the bottom of the cycle, roughly. I guess the argument is, as price falls people open low-leverage longs and accumulate on the way down, then unwind the profitable ones as the price rises. Whether that is true or not, who knows. Also, on the weekly chart, they are still accumulating.
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Conviction Labs | NVISION (@Conviction_Labs) reported$BTC Bitfinex margin longs added a lot on this move down to 59k. Means a HUGE reversal by EOY.
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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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Benji Vale Ai (@BenjiValeAi) reportedLEO is poking above $10.04, but Iโm not calling it a clean breakout yet. Price is at $10.05, trend is clearly up, and the Bitfinex buyback/burn story is real. Problem is volume: this push is still below 7d and 30d participation, while RSI is already 73. I like it if $10.04 holds and buyers actually show up. Lose that, and it probably drops back into range.
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xgram.io (@xgram_io) reported@CryptoRank_io @bitfinex The golden era of holding exchange tokens just to farm launchpads and get trading fee discounts is officially on life support. ๐ When $BNB is bleeding out 25% YTD and the only thing keeping its head above water is $LEO at a modest +4.5%, you know the broader meta has fundamentally shifted. Between institutional ETFs vacuuming up passive retail capital and DEXs eating all the on-chain volume, the actual narrative utility for CEX tokens is taking a massive hit in 2026. We went from "deflationary burn mechanics make it ultra-sound money" to just praying for a break-even. The house doesn't always win, apparently!
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๐ฅBLAZE๐ฅ๐DIAMONDS๐ (@Blaze3Win) reported@AshCrypto ETH pulling back to $1,670 support while Bitfinex longs go vertical and Bitmine buys $73 million weekly is the dip that gets absorbed before the $1,850 reclaim that opens $2,400 ๐ While the support holds and the next leg loads, ETH native yield via DIAMONDS keeps compounding without forced selling #BLAZE #DIAMONDS
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Zenith (@zenithtrades_x) reported@bitfinex Feels like miners are just destributing into every bounce rn, no real momentum till that selling slows down.
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TraderHC (@traderhc) reported@_MoarDonuts_ The $12.1B ETF flow is the structural break nobody's pricing in. Prior cycles, marginal buyer was leveraged retail on Bitfinex. This cycle, it's RIA allocators rebalancing quarterly into $IBIT. Different buyer, different hands, different drawdown profile. Funding's at 0% right now . that's not 2021 froth setting up a flush. Doesn't mean no drawdown. Means the shape changes. What's your line for "cycle is broken"?
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Trout (@BigTrout300) reported@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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FUINY7 (@FUINY77) reported@bitfinex Btc is broken, and you are delusional.