Bitcoin Accounts Frozen As Another Trading Platform Struggles

The good news is that Vircurex is still accepting deposits. The bad news is that all withdrawals have been frozen. The Beijing-based digital currency platform announced that it will freeze all Bitcoin, Litecoin, Terracoin, and Feathercoin accounts (Vircurex deals in nearly 20 different cryptocurrencies) and put them on ice to be repaid with future profits (h/t The Next Web).

Bitcoin: Vircurex unable to cover outflows after being hacked

Vircurex says that it was hacked twice in recent months, but continued operating with the intention of honoring withdrawals out of its own stores of the affected currencies until it...