Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex suffered a major disruption yesterday that resulted in the platform suspending trading, the platform's team announced yesterday at 13:30 CET. According to the announcement:
"We are investigating issues with the platform and have to temporarily halt trading. We will keep everyone updated on here and our status page https://bitfinex.statuspage.io as we know more. We apologize for the inconvenience."
It should be noted that representatives of the exchange later reported they had ascertained the cause of the problems and assured that users' funds were safe.
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At around 15:00, a message appeared that the work was almost finished and the exchange would resume the order cancellation function.
The exchange has not specified when other services will start working. Some users have noted in the comments of the post that the withdrawals were not available to them.