Update

I was able to finally get my funds off of Bitfinex, unfortunately I had to do it by buying an altcoin (ETC) and then waiting half a day or more for them to arrive.

For me to withdraw my Bitcoin, Bitfinex asked that I DM them on Twitter from the @TuckFheman account.

Bitfinex does not follow the TF account, so I could not DM them and they had requested the impossible task now. I waited days for them to never respond to my ticket informing them of this, then finally decided to just buy ETC and try to withdraw that way.

According to Bitfinex

The reasons they gave for holding my funds are below ...

• I was a new user that had never traded on their site.
• I'm anonymous.
• I was using a VPN.
• I sent some BTC from Poloniex to Bitfinex.
• I did not purchase any other coins on their exchange.
• A few days later I tried to withdraw the BTC.

So the lesson is ... don't do what I did or ...

Don't send your money to a centralized exchange.

Use the BitShares DEX instead.