Re:Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours
by sgwil on Thursday April 11, 2013 @10:59AM
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Isn't it weird how whenever there's a massive selloff of Bitcoin, Mt. Gox 'experiences a DDoS attack' and closes trading???
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It's other people that have blamed this on a DDoS attack. MtGox themselves have explicitly denied it.
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html
""" First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success! """"
Re:Mtgox stops trading for 12 hours
by FireBeyond on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:49AM
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Success for an exchange that makes money on trades whether the price is going up or down is a very different beast to success for someone losing half the value of their investment...