Bitcoin traders face an eight-hour blind spot as Deribit prepares to delay key market data

Bitcoin traders using Deribit's public positioning data will face an eight-hour lag under a release scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 10. The change will leave charts of outstanding futures and options positions looking backward even as traders compare them with current prices. Deribit's updated release notice schedules maintenance for 09:00 UTC, with about 45 minutes of downtime during which clients cannot communicate with the exchange. The release was postponed from Nov. 5. The broadest change concerns open interest, the positions that remain open. Public figures will show the state eight hours earlier across all futures and options, whether or not any trades were delayed. Deribit says real-time open interest will no longer be available through its API.

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