Bifinex shutting door for U.S. Citizens

[CryptoGirl]

The cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, made an announcement that they will no longer serve U.S. customers within their trading platform. The changes will take place starting November 9th.

Here's the announcement:

As indicated in the announcement, we are terminating trading, deposits, and withdrawal functionality for U.S. individual customers by no later than November 9, 2017. U.S. customers are already barred from receiving financing from other users on Bitfinex’s peer-to-peer financing platform. This restriction will remain and, in addition, U.S. individual customers will no longer be able to provide financing on Bitfinex effective November 9, 2017.