Yes if you look at the announcement there is a SEC document that specifies their reasoning.  US investors have to $1M USD in assets before they can get involved in IPO's so the SEC spun that to include ICO's. 

After several ICO's have had millions of dollars invested in a single day, Wall Street is very scared.... So the SEC, their puppets, had to do something about it.

Hello all,
I live in the US, and specifically New York State.  The landscape here is NOT crypto-friendly.  The Wall Street brokers and the bankers are scared as hell over the amount of money that can be made in crypto.  I mentioned to a Vice President of a bank how much money I had made in crypto last several years and he was shocked.  You have to remember that the banks, stock exchanges, and central bank (Federal Reserve Bank) are all private companies.

I could see where the US is a small percentage of Bitfinex.  The majority of their clients are in Asia, specifically Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. 


Well I was making a decent amount of USD on funding at Bitfinex.  Poloniex is rediculously low as an annual return, but still better than the banks which return 0.05% for a savings account ( Poloniex ~3% per annum).  Wonder if I can get some Canadian friends to handle this for me.

BitFinex

Announcements
Announcements > Service Changes for U.S. Customers (Amended as of August 12, 2017)
August 11, 2017
Bitfinex is making changes to the services we provide to U.S. individuals. These changes impact the verification process and trading of certain digital tokens for U.S. customers. Some changes are effective immediately, and others will be gradually implemented in the coming weeks.

Suspension of U.S. Individual Verification Requests

We regret to announce that, effective immediately, we will no longer be accepting verification requests for U.S. individuals.

We have for some time considered pulling away from the retail marketplace in the U.S., and now with a current backlog of verification requests and ongoing difficulties in providing USD deposit and withdrawals for U.S. individuals, we feel that the time has come to begin disengaging from U.S. retail customers.

Several factors have gone into this decision:

While we have been able to normalize banking for some corporate customers and individuals in certain jurisdictions, compliant banking solutions for U.S. individuals remain elusive. We have been slowly and selectively inviting users in particular jurisdictions who meet set criteria to start using banking channels that have come online. This process is ongoing.
A surprisingly small percentage of our revenues come from verified U.S. individual accounts while a dramatically outsized portion of our resources goes into servicing the needs of U.S. individuals, including support, legal and regulatory.
We anticipate the regulatory landscape to become even more challenging in the future.
Bitfinex is not based in the United States. Exchanges based in the U.S. are better positioned to properly service retail U.S. customers.
We are thankful to all of our loyal U.S. customers that have consistently traded with us but, unfortunately, we have an obligation to our whole customer base and to our shareholders to make rational resource allocation decisions.

Furthermore, over the next 90 days, we will be discontinuing services to our existing U.S. individual customers. We will be communicating further with affected users on timing and specifics. Our intention is to reduce disruption as much as possible for our U.S. customers.

We will continue to take advice and implement further changes as circumstances warrant.

Restrictions on U.S. Persons Trading Certain Digital Tokens

Bitfinex will be barring U.S. customers from trading ERC20 tokens issued through "ICOs." That ban will go into effect at noon UTC on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. No trading of these tokens will be allowed for U.S. customers as of that date and time. Please note that nothing in this announcement should be taken as fact or opinion that any such ERC20 tokens are a security pursuant to U.S. law or require regulation under U.S. law.

Once again, we regret any inconvenience this change in policy might create.

We're dedicated to bringing you the best platform possible. If we made any mistakes or if you have any suggestions please get in touch. support@bitfinex.com / @bitfinex

@bitfinex / blog.bitfinex.com / bitfinex.statuspage.io

Windows 10 - miner crashes.
I am using AMD 15.300 drivers, Clay 9.7, put the environment variables in, tried running it in compatability mode as Windows 8.

Cannot figure out what the problem is.

Also, how do I upload the screenshot?

I upgrade to 9.6 and I reread the readme!!! file.  I had forgotten the -dcoin parameter on startup.  -dcoin lbc

Thanks

Search is temporarily disabled so... I am running 9.2 on Windows 10 x64.

Anyone mining LBRY?  I tried it with 2 different pools and get a 100% FAILURE rate?.
Thank you

Windows 10 Anniversary, r280x, mining from dwarfpool, 12.Mh/s

Config.txt - dwarfpool entry rejected but epools.txt accepted ??  Speed increase?
Thanks.

I am looking for instructions to install/setup geth and ethminer on Ubuntu 14.  I have it running and performing work without geth at the moment.  I cannot find the required settings to use geth and get logged in.  

The miner is processing but I have no hashrate on coinotron?
I am assuming I have settings incorrect.

Thank you.

Thanks for the info

Sampey,
I would like to try the 'post to URL' option.  What should the text line for this option look like?  I looked in the guide but did not see it.
Thanks.

Analyzer would probably be used more if the user could import all of their current orders without having to add everything manually.  It would be an excellent tool without all of the manual labor.

I was just looking at it and added a couple of my pairs and it showed up a couple of potential losses immediately.  So I canceled the orders.

Hello all,
I just had an update to the Android version of the Jaxx wallet.  Lost all my coins!  The default wallet address has been changed.  I download the Windows wallet and used 'restore' with the mnemonic for the Android wallet.  Guess what a new wallet address and no coins either. 

In other words, don't bother using this wallet!  They do not have their act together!
 

So I have to wait 5 days before Global Gains will be accurate again?

Yes, I understand that the operations are still running, etc. but ths Global Gains report will not update beyond this error.  I can look at the associated files for each trading pair and see transactions that have occurred since this error. 

So in order to save and reload all of my settings do I shut down the algo's then save everything?  Eventually I would like to move this to another computer. 

Here is the screenshot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zty9249944h1eh0/Screenshot%202016-04-11%2009.18.53.png?dl=0
Thank you

I tried to "Load Orders" and all of the orders displayed "Exchange not found".  See screenshot https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hbbopzivv4wj8g/Screenshot%202016-04-11%2007.10.39.png?dl=0

I was able to manually import all of the orders as noted in the docs, but it took several hours. 

Additionally, my Global Gains report is damaged.  It displays the last entry as 6 days in the future.  How do I rebuild/repair this report.  I looked at the associated TXT file and it appears to be correct.  The dates are correct, and the Total Gains entry is about what I would expect.

I would like to take the profits noted in Global Gains at the end of each month. 

PS> Computer crashed tried this for Poloniex, did not work at all.  "Exchange not found" on all orders.  I was logged in and had process started. 
Trying to rebuild all by Market Explorer.

Sampey,
What is the best way to take profits?  I like to take profits monthly until they equal my initial investment.

Thanks for the info I will give it a shot. 

Guide?  I did not see one in the download, how do I access it?