That's great! So the 1000+ customers that BitPay has and the thousands more that will someday use Bitcoin will be shut down unless they open and IRC window and monitor what trades are generally going for? There really aren't very many exchanges to DDOS in order to shut down Bitcoin growth and create a panic. It's not like there is real world signage with the price of bitcoins like at your local fuel station.
Unless you think that sign is magic, we aren't looking at the end of the world.
Those signs are updated a few times a day, by humans Increases are urgent, declines are meh..
Gasoline is unusual, politically, but can serve as a good example for other goods that are less regulated. In the US, we have PADDs, and 99% of the time, what you pay for fuel in your car is the spot cost of gas, +/- the PADD premium or discount (PADD 4 is almost always the highest), +/- the local refinery efficiency (thank you Pine Bend), and the delivery cost (usually not more than a couple of cents per gallon).
