"As indicated in the announcement, we are terminating trading, deposits, and withdrawal functionality for U.S. individual customers by no later than November 9, 2017."
The previous announcement gave no date, so it was not "indicated." What does "by no later than" mean here? Tomorrow? November 9th at midnight? Why be so vague? Why not have an actual lawyer write these instead of Raphael or Giancarlo, or whomever?
"This restriction will remain and, in addition, U.S. individual customers will no longer be able to provide financing on Bitfinex effective November 9, 2017."
This is simply false. This clause contains no "by no later than" language and says effective November 9th. Instead of going by their publicly posted timeline BFX cut off US lending on October 25th.
Why does BFX provide vague and outright false information to their customers? Let's hope they are merely incompetent. If there was any other site that offered lending and leverage like this then they would sweep up all of the business because of BFX's bullshit.
Well I'm not directly affected by it so I didn't really read anything into "by no later than" other than meaning that 9th Nov was the date, but I take your point.
As for withdrawing USD, there have been no wire facilities available for a long time so using USDT and sending to another exchange that you can withdraw from is the only option.