For those looking to speculate on the Gox price without dealing with Gox themselves, btc.sx is back after a couple days of downtime.  I had no trouble with withdrawals earlier in the week, so that doesn't seem to be an issue. 

I have what I consider to be a legitimate suggestion.  I've been trading here for a while, and have always remained loyal to the exchange and refrained from joining in the BFX bashing in this thread whenever things go wrong.  However, with that said, I've also lost very significant amounts of fiat/btc on numerous occasions due to problems that were always on Bitfinex's end.  I've put up with this because I legitimately appreciate the service you're attempting to provide, but this past week has been a little ridiculous (between the two trading halts I'm out close to 5 figures).  My suggestion is to consider refunding trading fees for a given period; this would serve both to compensate losses on our end, and to regain credibility for Bitfinex by making it clear that the exchange is not attempting to profit from our losses.  

Is trading actually down right now....

I understand the logic behind the policy change to prevent fake walls coming from small balances, but I think it's a serious problem that traders are now unable to place orders to close out positions if the orders theoretically exceed the balance available.  To clarify, say I'm short 20 btc and my margin balance is low, I can no longer place a 20 btc buy order at a lower price due to the balance requirements; this makes no sense because the entire point of the order is the cover my short and replenish the balance.  It can't be that traders cannot preemptively place orders to close out their existing positions.  Thoughts? 

Haven't traded litecoin here until tonight, has anyone else had issues with low volume and order book manipulation? 

Half you guys are just delusional at this point.  A "guarantee"?  Oh yes, because all of the other "guarantees" LC has made have been legitimate. 

It's safe to assume that there are no 2nd gen chips..

You made 40 posts over 24 hours in this thread.  Not one offered any insight, reasoning, or really anything besides your own fickle delusions.  The "power of angry investors" (translation: you making 200 useless posts demanding bitcoins from various LC affiliates) is of no concern to someone in China.  Fun fact: at the most recent bulk prices, 90btc worth of Friedcat's USB miners would rival Labcoin's hashrate, saving the other 6910 that I'm sure LC has an excuse for losing.  

But Labcoin is not hashing at 2,000GH/s.  It is missing a "0". 

If LC immediately started hashing at 2TH (which obviously is not going to happen), a price of .002 would yield 12% annual returns with no difficulty increases.  Those returns aren't nearly adequate given the level of risk, and the difficulty will probably double before LC gets any more hardware hashing (if they ever do).  So basically, 2TH doesn't justify anywhere near .002.  

You and the other few people still somehow hyping up LC continue to quote their claims.  What makes this promise any different from the countless others (all of which have been broken).  If they couldn't come anywhere near the few TH claim for the first batch, why are they any more likely to be on track for 20TH from the next batch?  Also, LC stated that they ordered the next batch weeks ago.  It's clear from their inconsistent hashrate that they have not yet figured out the issues with the first batch.  Please explain to me how they could have ordered a significantly better performing batch of chips before figuring out everything they botched for the first one.  

If don't see anything worse now than at the time of the IPO you should probably try looking.  The company has failed to deliver on any of its claims.  Currently, there are two likely possibilities: 1) LC did actually receive their first batch of chips, their performance is about 10% of the rate LC advertised, and there are additional technical issues with the chips that prevent them from hashing steadily.  

2) LC is a total scam, rather than just a completely incompetent company.  

Don't know if this is a legitimate issue, but I'm wondering if any of the other exchanges could have problems handling the extra volume if they accept a lot of new securities from BTCT?  

You obviously got trigger-happy filling an order after the announcement and failed to notice the extra 0 someone snuck into the bid price.  Everyone else seems to be trading fine. 

My balance was immediately reduced to 0 after this announcement. Burnside??

Edit: Balance is now displaying properly

Looked over the recent updates/nonsensical posts.  It's still not clear is Masbark is posting out of desperation while reminiscing about his account value in the golden days (last week), or if he's gullible beyond belief.  You actually took the time to do a series of calculations that rely on the fallacy that labcoin could possibly end the year with 500TH?  Every week, labcoin has disappointing news about their first batch of chips.  Somehow, every week, labcoins hashrate projections for the rest of the year increase as we hear this news about how shitty their chips are.  Is anyone else a little confused about how labcoin's hashrate estimates are increasing enormously when the only new news is that their chips hash way slower than they planned on when making their initial (much more conservative) estimates for hardware deployment throughout Q4?

First the estimates drifted from 5-6Th/s down to 2 ("some issues with chips underperforming" is a pretty casual explanation for achieving 1/3 projected hashrate).  A week later, we hear that LC is still "tweaking" the chips and boards to get them to run properly.  We're simultaneously told that an enormous quantity of chips/boards have already been ordered, and this delivery will allow LC to meet these crazy projects.  If the chips and boards still need "tweaking" (whatever that means, a week's worth of "tweaking" was insufficient) how is it possible that 100k more have already been ordered.  I see two possible scenarios: LC lied and this batch of chips does not exist, OR the IPO funds were spent on 100,000 chips that hash well below projections and will all require "tweaking" to have any hope of hashing reliably in a large-scale operation.  Now, I encourage someone to explain to me how labcoin has any hope of mining at 500TH in the coming months.  

Disclaimer: Vycid stands to gain significantly from AM losing value and is still butt-hurt from this morning when he convinced himself the hash rate might actually stay at 0. 

I understand your skepticism toward all the unproven companies, but Bitfury delivered its August orders on time and I believe October orders are still open.  Even if Avalon claims the order will be sent soon, no one knows when that is and waiting would keep us at the mercy of Avalon's incompetency. 

You seem to be the only person who objects to the Avalon refund.  What disadvantage can you possibly see to an immediate refund vs. waiting an undetermined amount of time for an order of increasingly outdated chips? 

I was under the impression that if Cognitive doesn't take the refund the chips still won't ship anytime soon, if at all.  Is that wrong?