You clearly think there is some DDOS activity going on, and yet there is no independent evidence of this. It seems rather convenient that these DDOS events did not strike when Bitcoin was soaring, and yet seem epidemic now that the exchanges are having difficulty reinflating the bubble.
Let me explain to you how markets work, since you obviously do not understand. You see, there is this thing called an "incentive." It's like when you were in high school (so, last year) and you were failing economics class and so your mommy said "Revans, if you get at least a C+ in economics, I will raise your allowance by $2.50 a week."
Needless to say, your allowance never got raised.
We don't have independent evidence because the owners of MtGox and Bitstamp and Virtex don't let us log into their admin accounts and check their bandwidth monitoring tools. I'm not sure why they won't let us do this, Revans; maybe you should ask nicely?
However, we do have a clear motivation for someone who is planning a DDoS attack:
(1) Speculators who can DDoS following a massive sell order, making the resultant cascade many times as large as it would have been due to lag panic and resultant high volume
(2) Entire industries that would cease to exist or be significantly downsized were P2P cryptocurrencies (not Bitcoin necessarily, just the skeletal concept of P2P cryptocoins) to succeed on any large scale.
(2) is obviously only a minor consideration at this point and is more of a tip-of-the-tin-foil-hat, but we still have two clear motivations for someone to perform a DDoS.
Now, I agree that blaming all this on a DDoS is extremely naive, which is why I am not doing it. And I agree that their infrastructure should easily be able to deal with both the volume AND the DDoS. But to stick your head in the sand and pretend that throughout all this exchange downtime, DDoSs have not been happening at all - is just as naive. As Wuji pointed out - SNMP graphs were posted - they could have been faked, yes - and Gox also paid a significant sum to hire one of the leading firms in DDoS protection.
All the signs point to DDoSs having been carried out - to (1) deny the incentive mechanisms (2) claim the SNMP graphs were faked (3) claim the hired firm was just a cover is a bit of a stretch, at this point you should probably be on Youtube watching Alex Jones and forgetting about BTC completely.
