Bitfinex Handles 400,000 Trading Events Per Second Amid Frenetic Bitcoin Trading Date 09/02/2021 Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, successfully managed 400,000 ‘trading events’ per second yesterday amid a frenzy of speculation on bitcoin after Elon Musk's Tesla bought US$1.5 billion of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Bitfinex cemented its preeminent position, delivering a high-performance trading experience while rival exchanges suffered downtime amid soaring website traffic as the bitcoin price spiked to US$48,000. Bitfinex handled approximately 400,000 events, or connections, per second from a global customer base between 1pm and 5pm UTC on February 8th. These connections were composed of crypto investors seeking to trade or obtain a price for digital tokens.