BFX tokens; worth anything? When?

[doublemore]

I wonder if they will pull this off.  If they do, will the BFX tokens actually gain in value?  Will they finally become equal to the loss?  How long could that take?  This is going to be an interesting journey from a large hack.  Hopefully it goes better than the way MtGox went.  Liquidation doesn't seem like a very good path either.

Chances are it's going to be a fairly long time before the BFX tokens are able to pay off everything that was lost, especially considering the lost business from the hack and the mistrust of the website now. It is definitely better than what happened with Mt.Gox, and I hope they'll able to get everyone their funds back, but I wouldn't be betting on it personally.

Depends if they get investment, im thinking if the BFXtokens price is low thats beacuse they have investment.  The price of BFX will be more clear when we find out exactly what they mean.

[Trouble821]

I ain't so sure this is an idea that's gonna survive. there's a lot of legal uncertainty that needs to be ironed out. many people have made the point that if you touch your bfx coins you're implicitly accepting bitfinex's terms. that doesn't work for a lot of people.

they might find out their plans have a huge spanner thrown in them when they realise there are real people at the other end of their website and they're not happy.

I wouldn't touch the tokens if you are considering being part of a class action or any type of legal proceeding against finex. The token terms say a transferring them also transfers any legal claims against the Bitfinex Group to the transferee. If you sell your tokens you might not be able to sue finex.

https://www.bitfinex.com/bfx_token_transfers

To transfer a token to another person, a transferor must assign to the transferee any claims that the transferor has against the Bitfinex Group on account of the Losses.
By transferring a token to another person, all transferors thereby assign to the respective transferees any claims that the transferor has against the Bitfinex Group on account of the Losses.

If you don't touch them the finex token terms say the tokens don't waive any legal claims against finex.

https://www.bitfinex.com/bfx_token_terms

The token has been issued to you without reduction of or other release or waiver of any claims you may have against the Bitfinex Group. Similarly, the Bitfinex Group has not waived any claims or defences it may have under the Terms of Use or otherwise should you choose to assert any claims independent of the token.

[doublemore]

The Bitfinex CTO has said they will be paid back in full in 3-6 months is the aim or if not you get shares in finex instead.  Seems alright but we need further details.

[cryptopunk]

We are seeing a bank run being traded. There are two basic scenarios:
1. People panic, start withdrawing all they have in BFX, this puts presure on their baking relation and USD reserves, delays pile up, people start hitting the exchange to get BTC at any price, and withdraw that instead, a large BTC premium is seen on Bitfinex, the exchange becomes useless for outside traders and the revenue and deposits drop, BFX tokens plunge to zero, eventually the lawyers take over and pick the remaining meat off Bitfinex bones, with some people recovering some parte of their money in a few years time.
2. People keep calm, Bitfinex keeps functioning and keeps generating revenues, withdrawals and deposits work fine, BFX tokens recover to 0.6-0.9 their nominal price in a few months, most people get almost all their money back by selling BFX, some traders make a profit when Bitfinex redeems the BFX at nominal price a few years down the road.

It's entirely up to us, the investors, how it's going to be. For the moment the market seems to think we will have scenario 2. A coordinated lawyer attack might still turn it into scenario 1.

[doublemore]

After hearing more talk from finex today im pretty confident the tokens are worth double the current rate.  They have many options to clear the debt, crowd funding was mentioned, im holding for now and buying any at cheaper price.

[DarkStar_]

Hard to tell for sure, but I doubt it will reach 1$ any time soon. On Fairlay.com, you can bet what price range it will be on December 31, 2016, and it looks like the favourite is 25%-49.9% worth with odds of @3.21, so it isn't a huge favourite. Thought it would be worth mentioning though. Also, the odds are @5.66 for 1 BFX token to reach 1$ by January 1, 2018, so it seems pretty unlikely to me.

They will definitely be worth something, and they are already right now.

[cryptopunk]

A consistent 2-4$ BTC price differential has started to be seen compared to other exchanges. Seems more people are withdrawing BTC than the market can absorb. Since Bitfinex lost half it's Bitcoins but applied only a 36% haircut to existing BTC deposits, they are now functioning as a fractional reserve on the BTC side: they can't match 1:1 even the bitcoins people see in their accounts after the haircut. And since Bitcoins are easy to transfer out, they are bound to run into BTC liquidity problems as more and more people cash out. Since they are solid on USD, they will probably purchase additional BTC from other exchanges and drive the price up. This is quite a fragile situation, Bitfinex is in efect short on BTC, a rapid price increase can kill it if they run out of USD to cover BTC withdrawals at inflated prices.

[doublemore]

Hard to tell for sure, but I doubt it will reach 1$ any time soon. On Fairlay.com, you can bet what price range it will be on December 31, 2016, and it looks like the favourite is 25%-49.9% worth with odds of @3.21, so it isn't a huge favourite. Thought it would be worth mentioning though. Also, the odds are @5.66 for 1 BFX token to reach 1$ by January 1, 2018, so it seems pretty unlikely to me.

They will definitely be worth something, and they are already right now.

Finex have to consider the longer they are outstanding the more people will remember, pretty sure they wont be a BFX token by 2018.  They'd either die or clear the debt i see it as very binary.  The volumes are still looking good im going with they clear it.

[pinkflower]

I wonder if they will pull this off.  If they do, will the BFX tokens actually gain in value?  Will they finally become equal to the loss?  How long could that take?  This is going to be an interesting journey from a large hack.  Hopefully it goes better than the way MtGox went.  Liquidation doesn't seem like a very good path either.

What gimmick is this? They lost their customer's funds and now their planning on releasing their own tokens? For what? To make money out of those poor people who lost money in their site? That is some whole new level of scumbaggery right there. Just withdraw all your BTC from the site and demand that you get the whole amount.

If you had a 100 bitcoins on the site, and as a customer lost 36 on it, and were issued  BFX tokes with a claimed value of 1$/BFX, then even you would try and see it to get as much value as possible and not return them and complain about being paid when they have outrightly said they won't be refunding coins. This mentality unfortunately just makes their case easier and allows them to scam their customers.

I think a call to boycott Bitfinex is in order. How can they scam their own customers?

And what did their customers say? I assume they all played along since I don't see anymore news about it. Stupid. I almost want to say they deserve to lose 36%.

[doublemore]

I wonder if they will pull this off.  If they do, will the BFX tokens actually gain in value?  Will they finally become equal to the loss?  How long could that take?  This is going to be an interesting journey from a large hack.  Hopefully it goes better than the way MtGox went.  Liquidation doesn't seem like a very good path either.

What gimmick is this? They lost their customer's funds and now their planning on releasing their own tokens? For what? To make money out of those poor people who lost money in their site? That is some whole new level of scumbaggery right there. Just withdraw all your BTC from the site and demand that you get the whole amount.

If you had a 100 bitcoins on the site, and as a customer lost 36 on it, and were issued  BFX tokes with a claimed value of 1$/BFX, then even you would try and see it to get as much value as possible and not return them and complain about being paid when they have outrightly said they won't be refunding coins. This mentality unfortunately just makes their case easier and allows them to scam their customers.

I think a call to boycott Bitfinex is in order. How can they scam their own customers?

And what did their customers say? I assume they all played along since I don't see anymore news about it. Stupid. I almost want to say they deserve to lose 36%.

People wont boycott because the exchange is still the best to trade on. Margin trading is now back open.  People already expect risk and are used to it who invest in crypto, this is the single biggest reason why finex will have zero problems with recovery, they are still #1 of real exchange volumes as i look today.

[Hermel]

By now, we know much more about the tokens. This reduction in uncertainty has already led to a surge to 0.60$ per token from initially 0.30$.

In my opinion, the conversion offer to get Bitfinex shares is worthless. Even if everybody converts their tokens, it means that everyone has to wait three times as long to get their money back. This can seen simply by considering that token holders will be paid back first, before any dividends are emitted. But only (up to) one third of the dividends will flow to the converted token holders. Thus, it will take much longer to get the money back... if they make 10 millions in profits per year, it will take 18 years. But on the plus side, you will own a piece of Bitfinex which lasts as long as Bitfinex exists. But I would not bet on that.

So if you don't convert, what are these tokens worth? If Bitfinex continues to repay about 1.2% every month, that amounts to 14% per year. In that case, it will take roughly 7 years to get your money back. But at a price of 0.60$, it only takes about four years to get your investment back and the next three years will be profits.

In other words: if you are confident that Bitfinex can last for another four years and get your money back after that time. And if it lasts for another seven years (with flat growth), you will get a return of about 8% per year over the. That's not great, but better than nothing.

To conclude: if you have an investment opportunity that yields more than 8% per year at a similar risk, you should sell your BFX and go for that. For example, if you believe that Bitcoin will double in price every four years, that's a much better investment.

[gentlemand]

Regardless of the state of the BFX token market, it certainly beats the pants off being a Gox victim. Years down the line there's still no money and still no answers. The way Bitfinex operates has always been a tad whiffy but at least there's a fighting chance of being made whole still.