Just run http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd in a different window, the data on bitfinex itself is often old anyways.

No so far as I know they never charged for deposits. Why should they?!

You maybe confuse deposits (pushing money to Bitfinex from your account) with withdrawals (pulling money from Bitfinex to your account)?

Ripple uses something similar to a block chain with UTXO set attached, called ledger.

The oldest available ledger is #32570 (with about 100 entries) so this is currently the genesis one, the older ones are presumably lost or at least not available until JoelKatz finally publishes the transactions that took place in these first 1 1/2 weeks so these ledgers can be restored back to 0. Since then there is a unbroken hashed chain of headers (also cryptographically linked to the transactions and account state at each point of time). Nodes verify this by getting the most recent finalized ledger and continuing from there. Since transactions in Ripple only operate on account balances, not on inputs like Bitcoin, and you can only branch at the top not "mine" on an earlier "block", there is no explicit need for keeping history, not even headers.

So far I just see you trolling:

https://ripple.com/wiki/RPC_API#account_info
https://ripple.com/tools/info
You're free to verify this and more also by running your own node.
There is also a bunched together amount released by RippleLabs (https://www.ripplelabs.com/xrp-distribution/) with no further/cryptographically verifiable proof behind that. It looks like about in the right ballpark though, from looking at the distribution of XRP between wallets atm.

Unlike Bitcoin, Ripple does not mainly exist to transact XRP (ripples) though, it mainly exists to facilitade trade. Some people here seem to have a similar vision in mind for BTC (using them as "bridging, globally accepted" currency to make transactions faster by buying them on one end and selling them on the other) so these might feel a bit threatened by XRP than others - if you are interested however in using ONLY bitcoins or holding them for longer periods of time, ignoring XRP and pushing for Ripple is a smart move imho.

If you already know that this is stupid, why do it? And why ask for this option which others (that might not even know that this is stupid!) might enable?

Also I personally would probably just withdraw the money as BTC instead of going through the hassle with apostilles etc. and exchange them to EUR, I don't see any advantage of sending them documents in advance just because I have money there... but do as you like!

You get interest only once a day around midnight or 1 am UTC.

Wenn man ordentlich arbeitet, werden Einzahlungen auf offline-Wallets vorgenommen und man sendet von dort alle paar Stunden oder so genug Funds an die online-Wallet um die Auszahlungen vorzunehmen.

Eine Woche auf BTC warten, nur weil irgendjemand meint, seine Konkurrenten ausbremsen zu können (Funds abheben? Ok, ich mach erstmal Mittagspause, ich unterschreib das dann nach dem Wochenende...) ist nix für mich, aber natürlich ein mögliches Konzept.

Wie soll man da täglich oder noch häufiger die Hotwallet(s) nachfüllen, wenn man erstmal einen conference call braucht?!

Sonst noch jemand Lust gescammt zu werden?!

Wenn man "GWC" in Ripple haben will, weil man den Namen lustig findet oder warum auch immer, kann man die sich auch gratis zusenden... Was hier versucht wird, ist etwas komplett kostenloses um BTC zu verkaufen, nur indem man "coin" an einen beliebigen Namen anhängt.

Edit:
Im Thread hier gings ursprünglich um "GinaWildCoins" die auf Ripple herausgegeben wurden und um BTC verkauft werden sollten - ohne offensichtliche Rücktauschmöglichkeit.

They could announce that e.g. on May 1st they will be down for auditing and maintenance for 24 hours and no positions are allowed to be opened on this date or longer. Actually one day downtime every quarter to check if their books actually do balance and so on would make me more confident than the inconvenience this would of course cause.

Also it happened more than once that funds ran out on Bitstamp (though mostly USD, not BTC) without causing too much problems - if pre-announced, once withdrawing from and asap replenishing the Bitstamp wallet should not be too much of a hassle? Since you can send back coins as soon as you know the transaction, you'd only have to wait for 7 confirmations (~1 hour) anyways - Bitfinex might even be able to cover this time with their own funds in the meantime.

Click on Options when creating your offer and select if you want it insured, insured if there is some insurance liquidity left or (default) uninsured.

Anonymized or not, they could simply lie - as long as some users are not checking that they are actually on that list and verify their amounts Bitfinex might get away with leaving out somebody...

However, yes, a list with some kind of hash (so I can use information I have to see which balance belongs to my account) and a balance attached for every account would be a great first step to see how many BTC/LTC/USD are actually deposited on Bitfinex in total.

I don't think you do really understand how Bitcoin works or what hot/cold wallet means... the only thing that changes after the first transaction out of a cold wallet is that the public key of that address is now known. As long as you trust in ECDSA, this is not really an issue. Also it is easy to see (if you look at where the transactions to the hot wallet come from) if they use a single address or several ones.

Dann schraub dein Gehäuse auf, häng das Ding schnell mal an einen freien SATA Port und mach die Benchmarks...

Ansonsten: 0.02 BTC incl. Versand (Luftpolsterbrief) nach AT. Einbauwinkel brauche ich nicht.

I said what I would expect, not what it currently does.

What if you have two 600USD orders (one for LTC, one for BTC) open? Should it then buy 1000 (since this is all that is available), 400 (since after one trade, the other order cannot go through as a whole and only be partially filled), 0 (as in total 1200USD are used for orders), sell 200 (since the balance would be -200 USD)?

Again, "BUY ALL" means "Take everything that is available RIGHT NOW and buy all of it", not "Check if there might be eventually something bought far in the future, calculate the remainder and buy only that amount". With Greasemonkey by the way, you can implement something with the functionality that you want to have client side...

It is not always clear which orders should be subtracted for the next order and which shouldn't. If I click "BUY ALL", I for example would even expect it to cancel any open order and just put in a market buy order with the maximum amount possible.

Send a mail to the support then, this thread is not an official way to contact Bitfinex.

Police gets magic piece of paper signed.

Police goes to bank, takes out paper wallet from deposit box.

--> Cold wallets frozen.

You don't need to be police by the way to do that necessarily...

You are seriously complaining that you need to calculate a simple subtraction?!
Also you can just use market orders, then your available balance will go down.

Since you can trade in more than one market with your balances, you can not freeze part of them just for a limit order that might never be executed in the first place.