Bitfinex Drops Minimum Balance to Trade on Crypto Exchange

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Bitfinex has removed its $10,000 minimum equity requirement to start trading on the cryptocurrency exchange, enabling a broader range of investors to participate.

The company, based in the British Virgin Islands, cited "Overwhelming demand from a wide variety of traders" for the change.

"We simply could not ignore the increasing level of requests for access to trade on Bitfinex from a wider cohort than our traditional customer base," Jean-Louis van der Velde, CEO at Bitfinex, wrote Tuesday on the company's corporate blog.

"For the last six months, we have been working hard to ready our platform for a new wave of customer accounts and are now in a position to open Bitfinex to a wider audience," he added.

"By dropping our minimum equity requirement, the only limits are now set by the traders themselves."

Bitfinex also said Tuesday it's been migrating the exchange's operations onto "Self-designed, dedicated servers with premium hardware for advanced security and lowest latency."

Further, the company is upgrading certain areas of client services, such as: "Automated responses to common queries, and quicker issue resolution" from customer support; a new know-your-customer portal; and additional information on the tokens listed on the exchange.

The exchange has been long mired in controversy over its connection with the stablecoin project Tether, with which Bitfinex shares leadership.

For a short time, Bitfinex and Tether had accounts at Noble Bank in Puerto Rico until the end of October 2018 and finally ended up as customers of Bahamas-based Deltec.

Some Bitfinex clients complained they had trouble withdrawing their funds.

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