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Besides Gox lag, another risk maybe the loss of access to Bitfinex itself, which somehow happened last night when I was desperately trying to return my loans. Losing access for a considerable period of time when the market is volatile may even result in many margin positions unable to be closed until it's too late, something potentially fatal to both the user and the site.
I understand such risk maybe impossible to completely eliminate, but want to discuss what can possibly be done to improve the status quo.
Hi Oakpacific, Was Bitfinex unaccessible last night? Did you have an error message or was it just a timeoiut (loading forever)? This is a very serious issue, we have to make sure Bitfinex is always available. About this issue, you have to know that the backend server (trading engine, margin check,...) is on another server than the front-end one. So even if the front-end site is somehow unresponsive, the backend server continue to work and close positions if they have to be closed. Also, we are curently taking steps to prevent too much losses in case of a flash crash. I can't get too much details right now, but this will be an insurance for us that the traders never end up with a negative balance. More later. best regards, Raphael I don't know how technically feasible or desirable this is (I am not an IT guy), but perhaps it is a good idea to have 2 redundant backend servers that communicate with eachother (so 1 is like a backup server that is being constantly updated). Should the main server crash, the second one can take over the margin calls etc. I think it would be better if Bitfinex just support closing margin positions with E-mails, that would be much more practical. |
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March 28, 2013, 02:40:03 AM |
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Besides Gox lag, another risk maybe the loss of access to Bitfinex itself, which somehow happened last night when I was desperately trying to return my loans. Losing access for a considerable period of time when the market is volatile may even result in many margin positions unable to be closed until it's too late, something potentially fatal to both the user and the site.
I understand such risk maybe impossible to completely eliminate, but want to discuss what can possibly be done to improve the status quo.
Hi Oakpacific, Was Bitfinex unaccessible last night? Did you have an error message or was it just a timeoiut (loading forever)? This is a very serious issue, we have to make sure Bitfinex is always available. About this issue, you have to know that the backend server (trading engine, margin check,...) is on another server than the front-end one. So even if the front-end site is somehow unresponsive, the backend server continue to work and close positions if they have to be closed. Also, we are curently taking steps to prevent too much losses in case of a flash crash. I can't get too much details right now, but this will be an insurance for us that the traders never end up with a negative balance. More later. best regards, Raphael I don't know how technically feasible or desirable this is (I am not an IT guy), but perhaps it is a good idea to have 2 redundant backend servers that communicate with eachother (so 1 is like a backup server that is being constantly updated). Should the main server crash, the second one can take over the margin calls etc. I think it would be better if Bitfinex just support closing margin positions with E-mails, that would be much more practical. One does not exclude the other. Closing a position with email would indeed be nice when there is a problem with the front-end. However if price tanks while a trader isn't paying attention, automatic liquidation needs to be enforced. Emails won't help in that case. |
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March 28, 2013, 03:43:08 AM |
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Besides Gox lag, another risk maybe the loss of access to Bitfinex itself, which somehow happened last night when I was desperately trying to return my loans. Losing access for a considerable period of time when the market is volatile may even result in many margin positions unable to be closed until it's too late, something potentially fatal to both the user and the site.
I understand such risk maybe impossible to completely eliminate, but want to discuss what can possibly be done to improve the status quo.
Hi Oakpacific, Was Bitfinex unaccessible last night? Did you have an error message or was it just a timeoiut (loading forever)? This is a very serious issue, we have to make sure Bitfinex is always available. About this issue, you have to know that the backend server (trading engine, margin check,...) is on another server than the front-end one. So even if the front-end site is somehow unresponsive, the backend server continue to work and close positions if they have to be closed. Also, we are curently taking steps to prevent too much losses in case of a flash crash. I can't get too much details right now, but this will be an insurance for us that the traders never end up with a negative balance. More later. best regards, Raphael I don't know how technically feasible or desirable this is (I am not an IT guy), but perhaps it is a good idea to have 2 redundant backend servers that communicate with eachother (so 1 is like a backup server that is being constantly updated). Should the main server crash, the second one can take over the margin calls etc. I think it would be better if Bitfinex just support closing margin positions with E-mails, that would be much more practical. One does not exclude the other. Closing a position with email would indeed be nice when there is a problem with the front-end. However if price tanks while a trader isn't paying attention, automatic liquidation needs to be enforced. Emails won't help in that case. AH, I see, you talked about the backend glitch, in that case yeah, though it has to depend on how big Bitfinex will grow into. |
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March 28, 2013, 04:09:48 AM |
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Any chance you'll be adding Litecoin and Namecoin?
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March 28, 2013, 04:36:54 AM |
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Any chance you'll be adding Litecoin and Namecoin?
there is no armory fork for this chains  |
Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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March 28, 2013, 03:23:21 PM |
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Here appears to be a glitch:
Whenever my offers auto re-new they don't appear in the offers list:
Unfilled credit demand/offers
# Currency Type Amount Rate (% per 365 days) * Maximum lending time (days) Placed Auto-renew Status
24066 USD Lend Limit 200.0 490.0% 90 about 1 hour ago Yes active Cancel Will notify
24065 USD Lend Limit 272.99 470.0% 90 about 1 hour ago Yes active Cancel Will notify
And here are the offers:
USD Lending offers
Maximum lending time (days) Rate (% per 365 days) * Amount Offer count
0 Variable Interest Rate (current: 263.7%) 2111.29 6
2 270.0% 30.0 1
2 310.0% 199.24 1
2 350.0% 30.44 1
2 370.0% 130.49 1
2 400.0% 3076.1 3
90 410.0% 3460.07 1
30 460.0% 2094.8 2
60 470.0% 627.33 2
60 480.0% 249.98 1
60 490.0% 54.07 1
2 500.0% 2043.32 8
So at 490% it is only showing 54.07 available max time 60 days. I am offering $200 at 90 days. Same goes for my other loan.
I just want to bump this as the loans I am adding are not showing |
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March 28, 2013, 03:27:12 PM |
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I just want to bump this as the loans I am adding are not showing
i think thats because of merging on the table to save scroll space |
Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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superbit
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March 28, 2013, 06:28:29 PM |
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I just want to bump this as the loans I am adding are not showing
i think thats because of merging on the table to save scroll space Then it should update the max days to what the maxed merge is I would think. |
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Ichthyo
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March 28, 2013, 06:33:22 PM |
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seems we have a temporary outage....
Or is anyone else able to work with Bitfinex right now?
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superbit
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March 28, 2013, 06:38:10 PM |
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seems we have a temporary outage....
Or is anyone else able to work with Bitfinex right now?
Down for me too. |
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March 28, 2013, 06:50:21 PM |
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seems we have a temporary outage....
Or is anyone else able to work with Bitfinex right now?
Down for me too. Down, down, down... |
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unclescrooge (OP)
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March 28, 2013, 06:53:11 PM |
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Hello,
We are working on this.
Best regards
Raphael
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March 28, 2013, 06:54:07 PM |
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Extremely slow to the point of being effectively down. I was able to get to the sign-in screen.
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myself
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March 28, 2013, 07:21:52 PM |
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the back end is working only front end is not, we keep you updated
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Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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BurtW
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March 28, 2013, 08:21:44 PM |
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the back end is working only front end is not, we keep you updated
Is this another DDoS? Another CloudFlare SNAFU? |
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March 28, 2013, 08:52:42 PM |
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the back end is working only front end is not, we keep you updated
Is this another DDoS? Another CloudFlare SNAFU?  |
Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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superbit
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March 28, 2013, 08:59:28 PM |
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the back end is working only front end is not, we keep you updated
Is this another DDoS? Another CloudFlare SNAFU? That a yes? |
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Ichthyo
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March 28, 2013, 09:05:49 PM |
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That a yes?
I'd say those people have certainly more important stuff to do than to respond in forum messages. Lets just be patient... |
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March 28, 2013, 09:15:26 PM |
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Hello everyone,
I'm really sorry to not have answered sooner, I asked "myself" to update you.
Anyway, we seem to have the situation under control now. We had a DDOS that made our front-end fall and prefered to stop it while we managed the situation. I have set the cloud flare settings to very high so you may not access bitfinex properly at the momen (you can be blocked for some minutes).
The backend got a hard time accessing Mtgox during this episode (as you know it was also down for some moments). Hence why some stop orders wasn't triggered properly.
We are still working on this. If you have some questions/remarks about your trades, please contact us by email but understand that we may take a few hours to answer as we are still stabilizing the situation.
Thanks for your patience
Raphael and the Bitfinex team
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March 28, 2013, 10:30:19 PM |
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@superbit and others
I did not give a clear answer because it was a clear manipulation, the ddos on bfx then another ddos on mtgox and price going down for me it was a clear attempt to create a panic sell so i did avoided to give a clear answer so it did not create more panic
i dont know if this can be used against me and call me a liar .... i kinda sux at damage control .... sorry
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Los desesperados publican que lo inventó el rey que rabió, porque todo son en el rabias y mas rabias, disgustos y mas disgustos, pezares y mas pezares; si el que compra algunas partidas vé que baxan, rabia de haver comprado; si suben, rabia de que no compró mas; si compra, suben, vende, gana y buelan aun á mas alto precio del que ha vendido; rabia de que vendió por menor precio: si no compra ni vende y ván subiendo, rabia de que haviendo tenido impulsos de comprar, no llegó á lograr los impulsos; si van baxando, rabia de que, haviendo tenido amagos de vender, no se resolvió á gozar los amagos; si le dan algun consejo y acierta, rabia de que no se lo dieron antes; si yerra, rabia de que se lo dieron; con que todo son inquietudes, todo arrepentimientos, tododelirios, luchando siempre lo insufrible con lo feliz, lo indomito con lo tranquilo y lo rabioso con lo deleytable.
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