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by oillio 4326 days ago
You said there was $28M in leverage before the crash. Do you know what the leverage is currently?
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runeks 4326 days ago
It fell from $29M to $24M: http://www.bfxdata.com/swaphistory/totals.php

But that drop doesn't happen at the same time as the big drop on Bitfinex, as far as I can see. I assume all times are UTC, unless otherwise stated.

The drop in total sum of USD swaps fell from 2014-08-14T07:30 to 2014-08-14T08:30, but the drop on Bitfinex happened around 2014-08-14T10:00

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mattodell 4326 days ago
The thing is that Bitfinex only reports their leveraged volume every hour so you can't really pinpoint the margin calls.

Especially since bfxdata is a third party site.

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mattodell 4326 days ago
If you go to BFXdata.com you can see historical graphs for it. Bitfinex reports their leveraged volume every hour.

Here's a screenshot of what you are looking for: https://i.imgur.com/SvSFYMK.png

edit1: I also added that graph to the post.

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