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Topic: Let me guess, they will blame this correction on a DDoS...... - page 2. (Read 3798 times)

sr. member
Activity: 364
Merit: 250
No, of course not. The top three USD exchanges plus bitcointalk all going down at the same time was just a coinkidink  Wink

Yeah its called a DDoS of SELLERs.   All the noobs trying for the exit at the same time.  Xchanges can't scale fast enough.  

Bad for BTC.   This poop of not being ready for scale hits us over and over.    You'd think the guys at gox would have had plenty of time to triple or quadruple server capacity in the last few months, you know with $10k/day of revenue pouring in.
member
Activity: 70
Merit: 10
No, of course not. The top three USD exchanges plus bitcointalk all going down at the same time was just a coinkidink  Wink

Even if this is a DDoS (or simply increased traffic due to panic), it is not the cause of this correction. This lag is actually stemming the panic selling, not creating it. If there wasn't a lag, the selling would bring this down much farther, much faster. Why do you think NYSE has a circuit breaker and trading curbs?

newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
Thats silly.. they cant handle a sell off true.. but its the volatile people responding to it as a crash, or selling because it hit the daily peak trying to get out and let the panic take hold.. then there is mass sell, then the lag grows, and people start responding to mass panic,causing more lag and more sells.   too many of these little incidents will eventually hurt us for real if gox doesnt do something to prevent this.... provided it isnt on purpose
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1001
No, of course not. The top three USD exchanges plus bitcointalk all going down at the same time was just a coinkidink  Wink
member
Activity: 70
Merit: 10
This was headed down well before any lag.....Gox simply cannot handle sell-offs. It jams up their system. The lag helps stem the sell-off, in fact; it doesn't make it worse. It acts as a circuit breaker. The lag slows the sell-off and then gives them something to blame the correction on.



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