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June 25, 2014, 01:27:19 AM

The next few hours/days will show us which way the market is headed, but there must be a lot of leveraged longs on Bitfinex (providing that their data isn't just a big pile of fake shit) who must be feeling the strain of a flat/downtrending market combined with the usurious daily compound interest rates they are paying for their positions.
Given that Bitfinex has decided to insure the entirety of its lenders (going so far as to rather make traders pay by canceling their trades in extreme situations), shouldn't it be the case that interest rates ought to have decreased? It seems to me that that's one big risk factor gone for everybody. Maybe it was indeed? I haven't been watching.

Edit: It just occured to me that this is easy to pin down. On their announcement page, the date is 16th March, and we can look at http://www.bfxdata.com/ to track interest rates over time. I don't see any discernible effect attributable to it since then.