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How can you do anything with that?  Any prediction you are going to make 20 mins from now when MtGox catches up is asinine.
/me wishes we had a decent exchange with stop loss / take profit orders.

stop spreading panic.

not panic. it's pretty bad this continues to happen. i'm sure a lot of orders are being executed when people don't want them to

it's causing some kind of dip already. intentional or not it still is not good

Change is coming I'm sure. The other exchanges are holding relatively steady. Everyone knows we have only ever crashed higher. (Eventually anyway)

You can fight for cheap coins if you want- but with a 20 minute lag you've got no idea what you are buying (or selling) into.

It isn't panic, it is a fact.  It is over 1300s right now.

If you are trying to ride the bubble, then it is impossible because I can't enter a sell order sanely when the trade engine has 20 minutes of trades ahead of me.   We may well be @ 100 and not even know it yet :/


^^^ Exactly this.

Just dont buy or sell!

mtgox should suspend operations. this is NOT GOOD

I just sent this to Mt.Gox support:

Please cease operations and re-open when you can handle such traffic.
1000s of people would thank you for that brave decision !!!
They would even admire you ! Me too !

Currently 1800 s lag time at Mt. Gox.

And then what will happen when they announce they're resuming operations at 2:00 EDT?

A thousand people will place panic orders at the same time and there will be a bunch of lag.

people will not be panicked because they will know that the order they will place will not take 25 mins to be executed at "market price".
someone should call mr gox and wake his ass up

we are now below 200.

headline: "how one website's shitty servers ruined an entire online market"

i'm actually surprised noone has woken mr gox up and told him to take care of things. does he not care?

I hate to be a voice of reason, but you could start trading on a different exchange. No more lag. Otherwise gox will keep doing what they're doing, which is making them money.

pretty much does this every week, not difficult to predict the top and put in buy orders, or just hold, no use trying to trade but why would you when other exchanges have no lag for one third the cost?

Bitstamp was really struggling too, filled a few small limit orders but could probably get cheaper when things calm down.

they don't have the volume at the moment. their prices have begun to fall as well

MtGox are fucking idiots to continue trading. They are the cause of Bitcoin's failure here.

It must be an attack - no?

This isn't an attack. Please notice all bitcoin sites are significantly lagged right now. This is called a run on the bank. FUD, etc. Keep an eye on the price, once it bottoms out, buy. I agree with the other posters. If they "halted" trading because of this lag, there'd just be twice as much lag later.

One idea though would be to halt this lag, bring in cloudflare, resume trading, handle everything smoothly.

What's bottom is the question, of course. Hard to tell with such a trading lag.

Bitstamp uses cloudflare, it's still all over the place.

Bitcoin Suffers A Correction Amid Apparent DDOS Attacks On Some Exchanges

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/bitcoin-crash/ (http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/bitcoin-crash/)

I feel sorry for the guy who bought at 266 and for the guy who sold at 105.  :(  Never a dull moment in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Yup. Bought a few at $128 today. Now back to $198.

which ones are cheaper then gox which ones are one third of the cost?

I have the answer. Get out of BTC you don't have the balls for it.

Gox already said cloudflare or aws wouldn't help, who knows why.
Plenty of trades in otc today ran smoothly...

Cloudfire caches web pages.  This is good for serving static content or something that doesn't get updated every second like a blog page so your main server doesn't get beat up..  But you can't really cache a trade order so cloudfire doesn't help with that.

I don't feel sorry for them, they might both make a profit.

E.g. the guy who sold at 105 purchased at 3
The guy who bought at 266 holds on and sells for 1000

MtGox should refuse to take orders worth less than 1ct. * 2 ^  seconds_lag. This way people can't arbitrarily cheaply keep the lag up.

But that will actually make the problem worse:  your trade didn't go through... so you keep retrying and retrying until your trade does, or the system crashes under the load.

Companies like Cloudflare and Prolexic (which MtGox already use) don't actually help because they have to send each and every trade/api request on to the Gox servers.

Ok, I don't agree with you on that but there is another problem:
If I can effectively put 100000 orders into the order book with one bitcoin, I can put these orders anywhere into the book and they will affect the resources needed later when things get busy. The problem are not the small orders entering the order book in busy times as these are fast to execute but the big orders hitting all that dust, that is where the engine takes time to do all the book keeping.
Therefore, the small order rule would have to apply at any time, so a 100BTC order doesn't have to eat through 100,000 orders but "only" 10,000 at max.
Actually 80 minutes of engine lag cost MtGox customers and cost the Bitcoin value which essentially also costs MtGox profit. Sadly these flash crashes are when MtGox makes a killing that very day but still I'm sure they loose with this lag on the long run, so they should evaluate the real costs of each position in the order book and charge that to their customers as a minimum price per position. Or if they trust on people keeping to spam the order book even lower the fees for all others at the same time. A penny bot is not profitable because it buys valuable bitcoins at the right price but because it manipulates the price for other merchants that take "last price at MtGox" as a measure to price their goods and services, so these bots will not care about some small fee but those spamming uncharted parts of the order book with pennies, they do care and will adjust their behavior.