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April 11, 2013, 08:20:58 PM
#17

And today they confirmed a DDOS attack https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/456123227805423

3 possiblities:
- Life imitates art
- They are incompetent
- They are on it


I think that the all possiblities.

After what happened today, I'd put good money on #3. There's 'incompetent' and then there's 'so incompetent should something go wrong you must have been on it'.
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April 11, 2013, 01:18:07 PM
#16

And today they confirmed a DDOS attack https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/456123227805423

3 possiblities:
- Life imitates art
- They are incompetent
- They are on it


I think that the all possiblities.
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April 11, 2013, 08:10:10 AM
#15

And today they confirmed a DDOS attack https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/456123227805423

3 possiblities:
- Life imitates art
- They are incompetent
- They are on it
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April 11, 2013, 07:27:22 AM
#14
To everyone interested: mtgox has now confirmed there was no ddos yesterday, just an increase in trade by x3 (ie, a panic sell)
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html



And today they confirmed a DDOS attack https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/456123227805423
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April 11, 2013, 04:03:31 AM
#13
To everyone interested: mtgox has now confirmed there was no ddos yesterday, just an increase in trade by x3 (ie, a panic sell)
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html

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April 10, 2013, 08:56:10 PM
#12
http://pastebin.com/h7iGK49T

Buy and hold, don't feed the trolls.

If anything, the DDoS mythology is the perfect excuse for any correction.


I hope it happens on a huge scale once every month. Seriously.
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April 10, 2013, 08:46:36 PM
#11
http://pastebin.com/h7iGK49T

Buy and hold, don't feed the trolls.

If anything, the DDoS mythology is the perfect excuse for any correction.

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April 10, 2013, 08:44:02 PM
#10
Pastebin is laying an egg. Is this that Xenau memo?
   
the singularity of anonymous itself
I have no idea what this means.
How anonymous acts as one.
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April 10, 2013, 08:42:56 PM
#9
http://pastebin.com/h7iGK49T

Buy and hold, don't feed the trolls.

Ironically if you go on reddit you'll find there are quite a few thread about today's cr... I mean 'correction' being 'engineered'. In one of the threads someone referred to this pastebin (although didn't link to it directly). While it's technically possible for an organised crime group to pull something of this nature, I sincerely doubt it was.

- First, there was no DDOS. Someone sold big when it was at peak valuation, that triggered the drop. The exchanges went 502 for the same reason they went 502 when it dipped at 75: the guys building them have lag-heavy but solid backends, yet terrible, irresponsibly put together unscalable frontends.

- Second, it hints at a conspiracy of loosely coupled individuals. Conspiracies of this kind aren't just hard to pull off - they are impossible to pull off. Someone always run their mouth eventually, or the 'open' nature of the announcements makes them backfire, or people never deliver on their 'promise' to participate, etc

- Third, it's a whole load of bollocks bulls and trolls use to convince themselves the bitcoin cannot crash back to its Jan value because it's magically propelled by the potential to replace visa/mc.

Sad thing is it seems to work - TC for example picked up on parts of that story.


- exactly

- exactly

- exactly
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April 10, 2013, 08:39:24 PM
#8
Pastebin is laying an egg. Is this that Xenau memo?
   
the singularity of anonymous itself
I have no idea what this means.
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April 10, 2013, 08:33:41 PM
#7
http://pastebin.com/h7iGK49T

Buy and hold, don't feed the trolls.

Ironically if you go on reddit you'll find there are quite a few thread about today's cr... I mean 'correction' being 'engineered'. In one of the threads someone referred to this pastebin (although didn't link to it directly). While it's technically possible for an organised crime group to pull something of this nature, I sincerely doubt it was.

- First, there was no DDOS. Someone sold big when it was at peak valuation, that triggered the drop. The exchanges went 502 for the same reason they went 502 when it dipped at 75: the guys building them have lag-heavy but solid backends, yet terrible, irresponsibly put together unscalable frontends.

- Second, it hints at a conspiracy of loosely coupled individuals. Conspiracies of this kind aren't just hard to pull off - they are impossible to pull off. Someone always run their mouth eventually, or the 'open' nature of the announcements makes them backfire, or people never deliver on their 'promise' to participate, etc

- Third, it's a whole load of bollocks bulls and trolls use to convince themselves the bitcoin cannot crash back to its Jan value because it's magically propelled by the potential to replace visa/mc.

Sad thing is it seems to work - TC for example picked up on parts of that story.


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April 10, 2013, 08:25:48 PM
#6
Posted 29 march?HuhHuhHuh

Given the work needed to be put into the project, it seems to be on par it being today and actually did act just as the plan did. We did see dumps before the DDOS.
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April 10, 2013, 08:20:40 PM
#5
Posted 29 march?HuhHuhHuh

Could still be the same kids trolling. Or another group trying to bring bitcoin down.
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April 10, 2013, 08:19:40 PM
#4
Posted 29 march?HuhHuhHuh
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April 10, 2013, 08:10:11 PM
#3
wish that were real and i knew the irc channel
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April 10, 2013, 08:09:16 PM
#2
Rouge anon's. Great job trying to destroy the community that was founded on the principles of anonymity and the singularity of anonymous itself. I retract my statement, these are not anon's, these are fools. Dishonor.
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April 10, 2013, 08:01:24 PM
#1
http://pastebin.com/h7iGK49T

Buy and hold, don't feed the trolls.
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