Addressing you questioning the payout scheme. They are paying off large accounts first. Once those accounts are clear, you move on down the stack. By resolving the lower end accounts, you end up with less total users who 'have a problem'. That serves a few purposes, including encouraging the customer base to continue using the service, which serves the purpose of funding the rest of the users, including those in the middle. It also allows you to effectively address the issue with the remaining people who have funds frozen - something difficult to do with all users.
I think your overall argument is based on cognitive dissonance. You'd like everyone to be paid in full immediately. That makes perfect sense to me, but it remains they lost funds. With that fact at hand, you can no longer hold the expectation of everyone being paid in full immediately and the situation of lost funds getting resolved. This makes you angry, and so you lash out with blaming statements which are logically flawed. Simply put, you are attacking something with an approach that makes no sense. The reason it makes no sense is because you are having an unresolvable argument with yourself! Honestly, I see no way of fixing this in a better way than what they have implemented. To me, that indicates we should extend some amount of trust they'll resolve this in a way that gets people's money back to them.
Your last statement is probably the most valid, but may not be 100% applicable to Vicurex. I agree they appear to have been incompetent (which implies they may still be incompetent) but they don't appear to be fraudsters. Mt. Gox was both, if you ask me, because they never did a decent job of disclosing. To your first point, Vicurex should come clean now they've frozen funds and give estimates of recovery time.
I think your overall argument is based on cognitive dissonance. You'd like everyone to be paid in full immediately. That makes perfect sense to me, but it remains they lost funds. With that fact at hand, you can no longer hold the expectation of everyone being paid in full immediately and the situation of lost funds getting resolved. This makes you angry, and so you lash out with blaming statements which are logically flawed. Simply put, you are attacking something with an approach that makes no sense. The reason it makes no sense is because you are having an unresolvable argument with yourself! Honestly, I see no way of fixing this in a better way than what they have implemented. To me, that indicates we should extend some amount of trust they'll resolve this in a way that gets people's money back to them.
Your last statement is probably the most valid, but may not be 100% applicable to Vicurex. I agree they appear to have been incompetent (which implies they may still be incompetent) but they don't appear to be fraudsters. Mt. Gox was both, if you ask me, because they never did a decent job of disclosing. To your first point, Vicurex should come clean now they've frozen funds and give estimates of recovery time.