[OFFICIAL]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading

[Wolftein]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex

After this , i move everything out of BitFinex

Also - This was posted on IRC , I thought I'd add it here.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: Whatever is happening, I think it's clear that BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

They will not even post an update on the situation

This is the last straw for me and bitfinex

After this , I am moving all my money to MtGox

Yeah, its clearly a DDoS, i'm moving all my money to another market too.

[Ichthyo]

Bottom line: Whatever is happening, I think it's clear that BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

They will not even post an update on the situation

Geez man. This problem happened just some 20 minutes ago. How can you assume that there must be someone communicating to you right now? Probably you assume, in your imagination, that there is a huge control room at Bitfinex, where herds of people are buzzing around like in a Hollywood movie? 

Just try to judge such a situation with a grain of common sense and realism.

I am talking of not being able to pay rent or buy food. This event for sure is a reputation ruiner for BFX.

Are you kidding us?

If this is really true, you should immediately stop any trading activities, and consult a doctor. Because you're clearly nuts. Never ever put money you need for a living into any speculation, irrelevant if Bitcoin related or not

[urwhatuknow]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

[accord01]

Giancarlo, can i send btc's to my account right now to prevent getting wiped out?  I remember my address. 

[urwhatuknow]

Giancarlo, can i send btc's to my account right now to prevent getting wiped out?  I remember my address. 

yes you can

Giancarlo

[accord01]

Also, you guys are a multi million dollar busines, and you can't hire something better than go daddy and hire a few more monkeys to work for you guys?  pay them like $50k a year?

[accord01]

Giancarlo, can i send btc's to my account right now to prevent getting wiped out?  I remember my address.  

yes you can

Giancarlo

crap i don't remember which address it is, have too many here... ok i will post screen shot to make sure it doesn't get lost in this down time...

[Wolftein]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

[jordan.dev]

If I can vouch for Raphael and Giancarlo - I know that 1.) this is not a DDOS, and 2.) this is the hosting provider not the result of a hack/unannounced maintenance on their part.

[urwhatuknow]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

any suggestion smart ass?

[Wolftein]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

[accord01]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

these are better than orangesite/ go daddy?

[Drabla]

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

Lol Your first 2 google search results for "reliable hosting" ?

( http://server.lu ) :>

[urwhatuknow]

TL;DR

This is the last straw for me and BitFinex.

After this I move everything out.

This was posted on IRC and I thought I'd add it to this thread.

*******

I am guessing it's DDoS , because it says "too heavy load".

I am guessing Bitfinex is lying about what's happened here.

i think it could be someone trying to manipulate the market again , like in march / april

with mtgox -  same thing happened

t would be nice to hear from someone , to know what's happening

somebody ran the price up from 1000 - 1020

then , started DDoS on bitfinex

because its probably the easiest exchange to DDoS

then , dumped a hella lot of coins

what happens next ? we wait to see

*******


Bottom line: I think BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

Worst of all there is not even an update on their situation.

This is the last straw for me.

After this I am moving everything to MtGox.

OrangeWebsite.com

Dear Customer,

At midnight (24 hours) the local time (GMT) an emergency maintenance is planned affecting customers relying our hosting networks. Expected disturbance is estimated up to 15 minutes. This is emergency maintenance caused by a network error that has been causing interruptions on the network today.
We apologize for the very short notice and any inncovenience caused by this!

Best greetings,
Network & Security Department
OrangeWebsite.com


If you don't believe us, you can check it out by yourself....

Giancarlo
Bitfinex Team

Seriously, OrangeWebsite?, come on guys, hire something better..

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

http://www.digitalocean.com    <------ based in New York - USA

http://www.hostgator.com/    <--------- based in Houston - USA

you really think having a BTC exchange hosted in the US is a good idea?

Please before replying to this email switch your brain on

[xavier]

Bottom line: Whatever is happening, I think it's clear that BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

They will not even post an update on the situation

Geez man. This problem happened just some 20 minutes ago. How can you assume that there must be someone communicating to you right now? Probably you assume, in your imagination, that there is a huge control room at Bitfinex, where herds of people are buzzing around like in a Hollywood movie?  

Just try to judge such a situation with a grain of common sense and realism.

How is this a coincidence

Their site gets DDoS'd at the same time there is a massive pump and dump in the price ??

Seriously , what the hell are you smoking ? Or maybe you are the attacker or related to them in some way?

If I can vouch for Raphael and Giancarlo - I know that 1.) this is not a DDOS, and 2.) this is the hosting provider not the result of a hack/unannounced maintenance on their part.

Of course a DDoS is the hosting provider's problem , not their problem.

It doesn't change the fact this is a DDoS.

Maybe they are not lying intentially because they hosting provider is lying.

However it has been way over 15 minutes and the site is still offline. This is not a routine maintenance. A maintenence would mean that the site did not appear at all , whereas in this case we are seeing it appear, but the following message

This website is under heavy load

We're sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We're working on this problem. Please try again later.

This is 100% DDoS, and 100% somebody (BitFinex or the web host) lying.

Even if BitFinex are being honest , why did they host with such a crap provider? (Who the hell is OrangeWebsite... makes me think it is somehow related to BitFinex , therefore equally dishonest. )

I guess painful lesson learned from this episode:

Don't put your money into the hands of incompetent and dishonest people

Just let me access your site again so i can move my money out

[supermine]

While DigitalOcean and Linode are probably the most advanced and hottest (as in 100% SSD) Hosters on earth right now, they are located in the U.S. - Fear of getting shut down is huge there if you are a BitCoin startup.

Iceland however, host of Wikileaks and a country where the Pirate Party has recently been an elected member of the ruling Government, is a much more intelligent choice for BFX. However the government changed recently and is not so progressive anymore.

If I might suggest these Germany-based hosters, who are extremely reliable (99,9% uptime) and spoke themselves out publicly for hosting Wikileaks Mirrors with them is welcome. (They have not said anything about BitCoin, so this is why I keep bringing WL up as an measurement of political progressivism)

www.df.eu
www.hetzner.de
.. probably many more.

[joele]

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

Those are good for personal bio website.

[Wolftein]

any suggestion smart ass?

http://www.digitalocean.com
http://www.hostgator.com/

Those are good for personal bio website.

While DigitalOcean and Linode are probably the most advanced and hottest (as in 100% SSD) Hosters on earth right now, they are located in the U.S. - Fear of getting shut down is huge there if you are a BitCoin startup.

Iceland however, host of Wikileaks and a country where the Pirate Party has recently been an elected member of the ruling Government, is a much more intelligent choice for BFX. However the government changed recently and is not so progressive anymore.

If I might suggest these Germany-based hosters, who are extremely reliable (99,9% uptime) and spoke themselves out publicly for hosting Wikileaks Mirrors with them is welcome. (They have not said anything about BitCoin, so this is why I keep bringing WL up as an measurement of political progressivism)

www.df.eu
www.hetzner.de
.. probably many more.

Oh yeah i forgot that they can't operate on US land ^^. Those germany-based hosters sound very sexy.

[urwhatuknow]

Bottom line: Whatever is happening, I think it's clear that BitFinex are lying about problems in Iceland.

They will not even post an update on the situation

Geez man. This problem happened just some 20 minutes ago. How can you assume that there must be someone communicating to you right now? Probably you assume, in your imagination, that there is a huge control room at Bitfinex, where herds of people are buzzing around like in a Hollywood movie?  

Just try to judge such a situation with a grain of common sense and realism.

How is this a coincidence

Their site gets DDoS'd at the same time there is a massive pump and dump in the price ??

Seriously , what the hell are you smoking ? Or maybe you are the attacker or related to them in some way?

If I can vouch for Raphael and Giancarlo - I know that 1.) this is not a DDOS, and 2.) this is the hosting provider not the result of a hack/unannounced maintenance on their part.

Of course a DDoS is the hosting provider's problem , not their problem.

It doesn't change the fact this is a DDoS.

Maybe they are not lying intentially because they hosting provider is lying.

However it has been way over 15 minutes and the site is still offline. This is not a routine maintenance. A maintenence would mean that the site did not appear at all , whereas in this case we are seeing it appear, but the following message

This website is under heavy load

We're sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We're working on this problem. Please try again later.

This is 100% DDoS, and 100% somebody (BitFinex or the web host) lying.

Even if BitFinex are being honest , why did they host with such a crap provider? (Who the hell is OrangeWebsite... makes me think it is somehow related to BitFinex , therefore equally dishonest. )

I guess painful lesson learned from this episode:

Don't put your money into the hands of incompetent and dishonest people

Just let me access your site again so i can move my money out

Xavier

make us all a favor
just get a life

Giancarlo

[Drabla]

@ Xavier: So as you  know this is a DDoS - can you tell me the price for BTC on May 11th , 13:00 GMT pls? - Srsly, calm down - one of my last server outages was caused by a pigeon nest...


@Supermine : I had problems with my wikileaks mirror & tor server @ hetzner. But that was at the very early moments. I moved that stuff back to Luxembourg ( http://server.lu ).

Whoever they choose they should be multi-homed & have their own backbone, be a RIPE member  and peering on some *-CIX *-IXes