On Friday, October 28th we will enable support for Zcash deposits and withdrawals. Shortly after we will create two new trading pairs for Zcash: ZECUSD and ZECBTC. Please note that initially, we will support TADDR addresses, i.e., all deposits and withdrawals will need to be to/from...
To protect against the ongoing attacks first targeting Ethereum and now Ethereum Classic, the Ethereum Classic Project announced a hard fork scheduled for ETC block 2,500,000, approximately 05:20 AM UTC Tuesday, October 25th. Bitfinex users holding ETC do not need to take any special actions;...
We would like to have the opportunity to securely communicate with you. It might be possible to reach a mutually agreeable arrangement in exchange for an enormous bug bounty (payable through a more privacy-centric and anonymous way). We have set up a dedicated email address recovery@bitfinex.com...
To mitigate the ongoing denial of service attacks on the Ethereum blockchain, the Ethereum Foundation has announced a hard fork. The hard fork will be put into effect after block 2463000 is mined, around 14:00 UTC October 18th. Bitfinex users holding ETH do not need to...
We are announcing today that many of our largest BFX token holders have agreed to exchange more than 20 million BFX tokens for equity in Bitfinex. The equity consists of shares of Bitfinex’s owner, iFinex Inc. “Since the theft two months ago, our primary objective has...
It is possible that some or all of the bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex will be recovered, perhaps through the efforts of law enforcement or through our own outreach to the hackers. . To further reward BFX token holders converting to equity, we have created a new...
On October 11th, 2016, at 09:00:00 UTC, Exchange Trading of RRT pairs RRTUSD and RRTBTC has been enabled for all accounts, save and except for U.S. Persons. Margin Trading and Margin Funding will not be available. Those who participated in the first round of the BFX...
BFX Tokens were created in the aftermath of the events of August 2nd. It has always been our objective to retire these tokens efficiently and quickly, including through various equity conversion programs. Such programs may employ so-called Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs). The first step towards participating...
We have enabled margin trading for the the BFX pairs BFXBTC and BFXUSD. Margin funding has also been enabled allowing users to place BFX margin funding offers and bids. Margin requirements for BFX trading will be identical to those of BTC, LTC, ETC, and ETH: 30%...
Here are answers to the questions that we have been getting most frequently regarding the security breach on August 2nd and the new BFX tokens. If there are any questions that you might have that we have not covered below, please contact support@bitfinex.com and we...
