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Topic: BTC-e flash crash 8/18 (Read 4311 times)

legendary
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RIP Mommy
August 18, 2014, 06:22:28 PM
#6
Morons.
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August 18, 2014, 09:02:05 AM
#5
Yes I'm guessing: someone dumped multiple piles on BTCE starting at 13:36 my time (11:36 UTC), only a relatively small dump, but stinky nonetheless, causing 25% drop as the orders buried into the book!

Whoever did that could have got more fiat by dribbling in over multiple exchanges.

Here's how it went down...

All charts have same time periods:
Going Down (over 9 minutes)
Going Up (over 14 minutes)

BTCE:







Other exchanges only got dented, probably by arbitrage against BTCE:

BITSTAMP:





BTC CHINA:











legendary
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August 18, 2014, 07:23:51 AM
#4
I don't think it was the usual fat finger big sell. There was downwards momentum for 7 minutes.
legendary
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getmonero.org
August 18, 2014, 07:08:20 AM
#3
i think it was the latter
legendary
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Freedom&Honor
August 18, 2014, 07:05:29 AM
#2
someone massive dumped?
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August 18, 2014, 06:54:35 AM
#1
It nearly (or did) touch $300 before arbitrage bots started kicking in. Still much lower, but the disparity is disappearing.

What was that about? BTC-e problem, or just some retarded selling?
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