Maybe, but now they're flinging DDoS attacks at each other. This is not the regulation-free utopia everyone was sold on over the past few years.

Frankly, it reminds me of nothing more (to cite a video game in about as serious a way as I can) than Rapture in Bioshock -- something that seemed like a good idea only until the first meaningful disagreement, and then fell apart completely.

> This is not the regulation-free utopia everyone was sold on over the past few years.

Coercion in the Bitcoin community comes from free-market forces and not a state monopoly on violence, correct? What other definition of "regulation free utopia" would there be?

Nobody was denied service.

People were simply denied service at their previous, exceptionally-cheap rates they had become accustomed to paying.

This is like saying that you are subject to ddos when a concert you want to see sells out. You either fork over the premium on the market, or you don't participate.

Um, no. This isn't about block size exhaustion. According to the article (I didn't do any research of my own to corroborate) proponents of various sides are throwing real DDoS attacks at bitcoin nodes and/or web content friendly to the "others".

Yes, I am running three Bitcoin Classic node and all three have been attacked in the last 24 hours. The attack seems to be only uni-directional at this point, Core trying to shut down Classic nodes.