I'd hate to break this to you but if the address changes after you cut and paste (so the pasted address is not the same one you copied) then the problem isn't with BFX.... your computer is compromised. There are viruses/trojans/malware that alter bitcoin addresses so every time you cut and paste an address it replaces it with the hacker's address.

you've unwittingly sent your coins to a hacker.

sorry, but there is nothing that can be done from the BFX side on this.

The bug in the expiry dates is still there. I had a 30 day loan sitting in my unused swaps all night and over the 10 hours the hourly interest kept cutting it the swap went from 30 days to 20 days.

FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---------

This is a serious bug. If we don't get a response in the next 24 hours i'm going to post in Reddit. It seems BFX pays more attention there anyway.

Might be a bug:

If i have unused swap sitting at 30 days and then use up a tiny bit (say to pay off interest) the rest of the swap's expiry is reduced by a *full day*. So my previously 30 day swap after being touched is now a 29 day swap. then if it's touched again it gets reduced to a 28 day swap. and so on. This is all happening on the same day, so it's not like i'm rolling over time legitimately. A day is taken off the swap time whenever the swap is cut but not completely used.

Can this be fixed?

Re-read my post.

I'm NOT double clicking, but the error keeps happening.

I keep getting the error "you can't double click on the transfer button" whenever i'm moving money between wallets. The thing is i'm NOT double clicking at all. But this error keeps me from moving things, i have to retry several times for it to work.

What's causing this error and how do i fix it?

During the recent limited flash crash, did BFX use the half-breaker idea i proposed back in february to blunt it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=229438.msg5060308#msg5060308

The behaviour of the BFX during this time seems to suggest it has. Price goes wildly out of sync due to cascade liquidation, trading is halted for a minute to allow bids to rebuild, trading is resumed when depth is better, liquidation is trickled in the process repeats until the price is back in sync with bitstamp.

Good work on BFX for blunting the crash. I'm very happy that i wasn't liquidated (at least not yet, who knows how low we go in the future .


... do i get a small reward for the winning idea?

NO

All the shit with glitched trading that happened a couple of weeks ago in the LTC markets shows that BFX is very far from ready to push even more currencies. Let them work out the bugs in the current system before risking piling more bugs with more currencies.

yup! my withdraw processed as well and is in my wallet now.

Bitfinex is on the ball.

Anyone else getting a "Pending Approval" for their withdraws?

Possibly the hot wallet is depleted and needs to be replenished?

Umm.. I wasn't the one that made that suggestion, i just suggested a rolling half-breaker, it operates under very different set of conditions and is specific only to BFX. I'm not sure why you're associating me with the suggestion to halt all exchanges.

Its not the volatility that bothers anyone, its the halting of the trades during volatility. I agree that traders love volatility but halting trading due to a cascade is much worse from a trader's perspective.

The circuit breaker is a "meet in the middle" compromise where we trade some volatility for more platform reliability. Ideally we wouldn't have any circuit breaker nor halt any trades and let the chips land where they fall, but we simply can't do that. BFX HAS to halt trades to prevent certain extreme forms of volatility causing a cascade.

If you think my rolling half-breaker is WORSE than halting all trades on both sides then let us know so we can discuss the issue.

I think MORE traders would be gone if they got their positions ruined due to halted trading.

Yeah, a clearly defined and public circuit breaker of some type i think would help ease the market a LOT. I think the half-breaker would be awesome if the details are public because as soon as its turned on buyers would RUSH in and refill the bids because from their point of view, they get to buy coins at 0-5% below bitstamp price with *near certainty* their bids will get filled as the liquidations continue in a controlled fashion.

If we all knew the cascade was about to happen, i think a lot of us with available funds would have set up bid ladders to take advantage. There are few forces more powerful than greed, a half-breaker takes advantage of that.

I sure hope this gets implemented and i get a small bonus!

If you have a hybrid electric vehicle a really cool thing a friend of mine did was install a high-powered inverter directly into the car's hybrid battery (not the 12 volt battery, the high voltage one used to run the vehicle). Now the car itself becomes a very powerful portable generator that can run his whole home for a full day on a full tank of gasoline. noise and emissions are also much better than a good store bought generator.

And i realized i just went way off topic. PM me if you want further details.



As for your advice. the real trick is knowing when to abandon a bad position and eat the loss.

I feel for ya,

At least you can mitigate your risk with a UPS for your computer/monitor/modem and such. It's something proactive you can do.

But the platform halting just hurts, there is nothing we can do on our end about it.

I hope BFX gives us a few days of zero fee trading or something to lessen the sting of these incidents.

it was around $617 when bfx restarted,
I'm reaally down because i sold at ~600 hoping to get back in at $550. but just when i hit the buy button the trades were stopped....

I have a suggestion:

From what i understand running out of BTC on bitstamp was what lead to the cascade. How about next time this happens, and the order book moves more than 5% out of sync with bitstamp, that bfx pauses *sell orders*.

So its similar to halting trading, but *limit buy* orders are still allowed.

What will happen is the traders and bots will start to fill in the depleted order book. Eventually sell orders are restored again once the order book depth reaches some predetermined value, like say 1000 Btcs to the bitstamp price. let the sell orders trickle in and if the depth is depleted again and goes 5% out of sync with bitstamp, you once again halt *sells* and resume when the depth rebuilds enough. Meanwhile, you're also sending more BTCs to bitstamp.

This is like a circuit breaker but allows a controlled sell off. The advantage is that because its slow, forced liquidations won't cascade to zero because there will always be buyers willing to fill in with more bids when they see the bitstamp/bfx order books go out of balance. Also i think the number of forced liquidations will be reduced because they are stopped at 5% below bitstamp and only resumed when the bids fill in. eventually there will enough bids to repay lenders and stop the cascade.

The point of halting trading i think is to stop a cascade and destroying the lenders. By still allowing *buy limit orders* placed, we're still giving the lenders their money (since its coming out of the buyers).

If there aren't enough buyers then no worries, the depth never refills and trading is not resumed until the extra BTCs get to bitstamp. This system won't be any worse than the current system of halting all trades until btcs get to bitstamp... at least i don't think it's worse.

This "half-breaker" works both ways, If the opposite happens somehow, you can stop buy orders in the other direction.

Anything wrong with implementing a half-breaker?

The only difficulty i can see is that extra computing power is needed to check if the above conditions are met after every trade. After a sell occurs, check if there is still enough btc in bistamp, if not, check if the last trade pushed the price to 5% below bitstamp price, if true, STOP SELLS.

For very large sells of thousands of BTC you'll also have to break up the transaction into smaller pieces and implement the checks after each piece.

Anyway, could this idea work?