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Forum-preserved exchange status text stated that the exchange suffered drive corruption, would be brought up for withdrawals only after balance recovery, and that the exchange would cease operation.
Bitparking disabled exchange trading on April 5, 2013 and provided only a brief withdrawal window before ending exchange operation.
A contemporaneous copy of Bitparking's exchange notice stated that trading had been disabled and that the exchange would close after a short withdrawal-only period following a data-drive corruption incident.
Bitfloor shut down in April 2013 after its bank refused to continue doing business with the exchange, leaving it unable to operate normal dollar services.
Investor communications in the Bitcointalk thread stated that BitMarket.eu operations would be closed down, leaving the site only to handle old frozen coin issues.
The operator disclosed that customer funds had been used for speculation and that nearly 20,000 BTC of customer funds had been lost.
Intersango progressively shut markets during 2012 and closed its remaining GBP market in December.
Bitcoin-Central / Paymium announced that Bitcoin-Central would operate within a European regulatory framework with funds held at a partner financial institution.
GLBSE abruptly closed in October 2012. Contemporary reporting and community explanations cite legal, AML, tax, and regulatory concerns as the core closure rationale.
Bitfloor suspended operations after attackers compromised servers and stole roughly 24,000 BTC from an unencrypted wallet-key backup.