>The bitcointalk forums and /r/bitcoin are full of paranoia like this.
'The HN forums is full of smug dismissiveness like this'
It's a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things, and tons of sites were DDOS'd and simultaneously going slow or down (bitcointalk, mtgox, bitcoincharts, bitstamp). The evidence is my own eyes and refreshing browser timeouts. Everything back to normal now.
Highly unlikely that all those sites would be bought down by "panicked" users alone.
Given profiteering DDOS attacks against casino operators are commonplace, I find it a stretch to think these attacks are not happening regularly against bitcoin sites.
'The HN forums is full of smug dismissiveness like this'
It's a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things, and tons of sites were DDOS'd and simultaneously going slow or down (bitcointalk, mtgox, bitcoincharts, bitstamp). The evidence is my own eyes and refreshing browser timeouts. Everything back to normal now.
Highly unlikely that all those sites would be bought down by "panicked" users alone.
Given profiteering DDOS attacks against casino operators are commonplace, I find it a stretch to think these attacks are not happening regularly against bitcoin sites.