At the very least that twitter was from someone else replying to bitfinex only.
It is in the announcement from Bitfinex as well.
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/registrations-reopenBitfinex is a global liquidity source with a focus on serving professional traders and regional exchanges. We suggest that traders who are new to cryptocurrency trading try another, more straightforward platform first and return to Bitfinex later.
To that end, and to allow us to maintain focus on our core customer base, all accounts created after January 1st, 2018, will have a new activation equity requirement. New accounts will need to deposit fiat or crypto to achieve minimum account equity of 10,000 USD equivalent before they can trade or offer funding. After reaching this minimum, an account becomes fully activated (Note that after this initial activation, account equity is allowed to drop below this activation threshold without consequence).
Existing accounts will not be affected by these changes. This change only affects new accounts.
If an exchange was planning their exit scam, this would probably be their way to have as much fiat inflow as possible right before..
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Ente
It's $10k or crypto equivalent so it doesn't necessarily mean more fiat inflow. If the objective was to get more deposits why did they pause registrations at all?
