[Decommissioned] PyBot passive gateway on Poloniex and on Bittrex

[Cybnate]

Due to the narrower allowed spread set on the server-side as per the term 8 grant, it appears that the LiquidBits server no longer advertises the liquidity for Bittrex and Poloniex to the Nu client as that now exceed that value. The orders are properly placed and the liquidity is available so Alix should still see it.

[Cybnate]

Status update 10-May-2016 8:44am UTC:

Change highlights:
Poloniex: All NBT were sold in last 24h.
Bittrex, Oddly enough the opposite, all BTC were sold, leaving only NBT for sale in the books.
With the last server update, I have changed server settings so PyBot now limits buy orders too. The buy and sell limits are identical (see op). I’ve updated the table below accordingly.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)

Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 4.3081 (on order)
Tier 2: 9.7005

Sell [NBT]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [NBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,239.96

[Nagalim]

How’s your bittrex bot? Someone bought a couple dozen nbt at $1.17

[Cybnate]

How’s your bittrex bot? Someone bought a couple dozen nbt at $1.17

Not sure what happened there. The bot seems to be behaving, although I can’t rule out some price feed issues. The same would have happened at Poloniex at the same time being subject to the same feeds and would have likely resulted in the sell of many cheap BTC. There is no evidence that happened or maybe nobody was paying attention?

[zoro]

It is like someone exploits a nubot’s bug? whenever wants to trade.
And he does it randomly in order to avoid suspicion!
Yes, i have big imagination

[Cybnate]

a nubot’s bug

Exploiting a NuBot bug with PyBot? I can’t even imagine

[zoro]

Ah, my bad!
Then it is more possible to have the same kind of price feed errors for pybot and nubot.
I am glad this could be the real reason

[masterOfDisaster]

Price feed issues are unfortunately serious issues, which can cost Nu (directly or indirectly) lots of money…

[Cybnate]

I am glad this could be the real reason

I have some errors from about 24h ago about the Yahoo feed not being responsive. I suppose the NuBot logs should also have those messages in the logs?

[Cybnate]

Status update 15-May-2016 9:51am UTC / Unix Epoch 1463298746

Change highlights:
Poloniex: Sold most BTC back again. 90%+ on sell-side
Bittrex: small sell order, still 90%+ on sell side

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 1.0068 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [NBT]
Tier 1: 2000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3961.13

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0.4024 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [NBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,068.29

[Cybnate]

Status update 22-May-2016 5:38am UTC

Change highlights:
Poloniex: Minor change, 95%+ funds on sell side
Bittrex: Minor changes, 95%+ funds on sell side

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,430.65

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0.003 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,249.90

Total funds buy: <0.01 BTC
Total funds sell: 10,688.55 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 9-June-2016 8:45am UTC

Change highlights:
Too many, please check FLOT BTC buy side thread for more details regarding operations.
The 5 BTC from FLOT sold out in 3 minutes today.
All funds on sell side.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 5,420.46

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,246.30

Total funds buy: <0.001 BTC
Total funds sell: 11,666.67 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 3 July 2016 2:18am UTC

Change highlights:
Reflecting current balances after withdrawal from Poloniex on 11 June to reduce the exchange default risk.
See FLOT BTC thread.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,545.45

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,246.30

Total funds buy: <0.001 BTC
Total funds sell: 10,791.75 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 11 September 2016 3:25am UTC

Change highlights:
Reflecting current balances after restoration of the peg

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,546.03

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,256.74

Total funds buy: <0.001 BTC
Total funds sell: 10,802.77 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 18 September 2016 4:35am UTC

Change highlights:
A handful transactions on Poloniex, resulting on some buy side for a few days, but zeroed again.
Interestingly there were heaps of small transactions on Bittrex especially on 16 Sept, but buy side is back to zero.
Result due to the 1.4% spread is a small increase in USNBT.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,550.65

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,258.29

Total funds buy: <0.001 BTC
Total funds sell: 10,808.94 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 24 September 2016 7:25am UTC

Change highlights:

Number of trades on Poloniex especially on the 21st.
The PyBot on Bittrex is now providing dual-side funds as some NBT has been sold and the BTC has been place of the buy side.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,530.28

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0.81795 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 2,763.92

Total funds buy: 0.81795 BTC (~500 USNBT)
Total funds sell: 10,294.20 USNBT

[Cybnate]

Status update: 2 October 2016 12:35am UTC

This is the last update for the PyBot gateway. Even though this service paid almost for itself given the small profits made due to the spread the sharehoiders have chosen to no longer support this liquidity service by contract and it is therefore decommissioned. The remaining shareholder funds in NBT will be burnt soon. Remaining BTC will be sold for NBT and also burnt.

Change highlights:
Number of small trades (12) on Poloniex in the last period.
Handful of trades on Bittrex in the last period. All BTC sold for NBT. Interestingly, a new liquidity provider has magically appeared on Bittrex, which is definitely not related to my services.

Poloniex NBT/BTC (active since 9-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0.0167 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 2,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 4,522.49

Bittrex (active since 15-Mar)
Buy [BTC]
Tier 1: 0 (on order)
Tier 2: 0

Sell [USNBT]
Tier 1: 1,000 (on order)
Tier 2: 3,259.13

Total funds buy: 0.0167 BTC (~10 USNBT)
Total funds sell: 10,781.62 USNBT

[ConfusedObserver]

I’m at a loss for words.
How centralized shall Nu become?

[Phoenix]

How centralized shall Nu become?

The core structure controlling custodial grants is always completely decentralized. These dispersed shareholders can create pockets of hierarchy as they see fit. Any hierarchy they create depends on ongoing financial support from decentralized shareholders to remain.

This proposal failed because very few decentralized shareholders support it. It isn’t because I have used some special power to oppose it. One more thing: I wouldn’t interpret this as a defeat for @Cybnate. She did what she was supposed to in regard to these gateways. It is just a rejection of this particular model of liquidity provision.

[Nagalim]

The core structure controlling custodial grants is always completely decentralized

This is simply false. Decentralization comes in degrees, and nsr decentralization is 100% dependent on share distribution. There are many red flags for the degree to which that is decentralized. PPC distribution, for example, is clearly more decentralized. This is why eth hard forked, out of fear of how the future PoS security would suffer due to the share concentration imposed by theDAO.