Listen to Bitcoin passing 10k$ on BFX: https://bitcoinsounds.0x3d.lu *Ding ding ding ding*

Just adding my own: https://bitcoinsounds.0x3d.lu - After a while you know how tops and bottoms sound like

BTG tells you how much it needs while you initially configure your data-path. Currently needs 152GB.

Settings > Options > Open Configuration file (select some text editor like Notepad if .conf files aren't assigned to any program yet) > Paste all the "addnode=..." lines, save the file > restart BTG client.

Go to Help > Debug Window > Peers to check if it worked. Peers should show up and remain there a minute or two after relaunch.

Anyone else seeing sometimes weird and wrong numbers on Bitfinex' REST API?

Specifically this is about https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/btcusd

Now that the price is currently hovering on low volume around 7110 that API endpoint sometimes returns the correct price value, sometimes a value between 120~150$ above the real price.

Correct:


Not so right:


Please note the returned timestamp values, all these have been returned within a timespan of about a minute and the price has been nowhere near 7250. Any clue what's going on there?

Edit: Seems fixed now that the price is again above the wrong value.

Amazon finally accepting Bitcoin?

So how does that last drop look on BETI? Care to update yet, jl? Thx.

Seems fixed since today or maybe yesterday. No more killing tabs daily. Thanks BFX.

Not sure if I got your question right but: BFX immediately cuts 0.1% for non-express and 1% for express withdrawals with 20$ as an absolute minimum for both kinds of transactions so for any amount below 2000$ the express-feature doesn't cost anything extra. Besides that: if your bank account's main currency isn't USD then your bank will exchange the USD coming from BFX into your local currency at whatever (lousy) exchange rate they deem you worthy of and depending on your bank they'll subtract yet some more cents or a few dollars to do just that.

Can't complain about express withdrawals, the money's usually in my bank account within 24 hrs, sometimes a few hours less, sometimes more but it's a long way from Hong Kong to Western Europe so I guess that's quite fast given the fact that we're talking about antique banking technology.

In fact I always pick the express option as BFX is charging 20$ minimum in w/d fees anyways and as I'm usually withdrawing less than 2000$ their 1% cut for express doesn't surpass that minimum amount. Sure, the 20$ are a bit of a waste for small(ish) amounts but I guess that's a fair price to pay for their good service (and for now partially sloppily coded website - nothing that can't be easily fixed though).

Since your latest UI update a few weeks ago your site seems to be leaking memory. A lot of it, especially on the "Margin trading" tab and a bit less so on the Stats page (in fact, almost every single page does so but these are the worst ones). That is to say if I keep the Margin tab open for a mere 24hrs it is consuming about 1.2+ GB of RAM, almost 15x as much as when it was freshly loaded. The Stats page within the same timespan is using about 4-5x as much as when it was freshly loaded.

I tested in the latest Chrome stable but I'm pretty sure it happens in any other browser. I tried debugging it for a bit, seems as if you're not re-using DOM-nodes within your AJAX-"framework" (or whatever kind of messy hairball you seem to be compiling in there). It's constantly adding new nodes without cleaning up/reusing them afterwards. The DOM-node count always seems to go up after a call to update_tickrates() but im just too lazy to analyze your 80.000+ lines of (re-formatted) JS Code. 80k lines for a site as, well, still quite simple as BFX just seems like an awkward amount of over-engineering to say the least. It would be nice to have a responsive site again without having to kill and reload tabs every other day.

Other than that, your UI redesign looks really nice

Still can't trade because of this. What's going on?!

Edit: Working again. Thx.

Can't place orders via the website anymore: "Uncaught ReferenceError: submitOrder is not defined. onclick @ exchange:684"

What site is that?

+1 but that's just how technology still works. Even the fattest (network-)RAID or whatever goes tits up at one point, even the least fat-fingered admin throws the wrong commands into the wrong console at one point... After all bitfinex.com still has "Beta" written on it somewhere, doesn't it?

BFX: It would be nice to see some kind of technical details about how your systems are implemented and secured. How many servers are behind the production systems? What redundancies are in place for storage, memory, network, power supply, physical locations. Load-balancing, Firewall, IPS, IDS, DDoS and so on? Sure, details that your competitors probably shouldn't know but your users sure could need some kind of reassurance after so many eff-ups in a row.

www.twitter.com/bitfinex: We are experiencing data corruption issues and will be offline until corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Dying storage sucks big time! Or is this maybe related to recent changes in backend logic?

Hope so But only 8k in shorts to be covered on BFX... not convincing at all :-/

Fail. We're already going up Up UP

Interested. Still wanna tell?