We certainly won't kill flash until there are robust mac, linux and win 8 clients. HTML5 may replace the flash eventually and if it is used by many we will likely keep it indefinitely.

Excellent. If it falters after a few hours just close and restart it when you can and it should be fresh again. Soon even that won't be necessary.

That data disappearing means that flash crashed. Reloading should work. Switching tabs isn't so much the problem as having other flash applications open in the same browser, youtube, etc.

The only thing stopping you would be slowness of logging in. If you make sure to keep your web session active it would just be one click and a quick flash load up. No guarantee but you could probably make it.

I would NOT play for money that matters to you on the beta with windows 8. We expect it to fail in its current state.

Whoops, already fixed for the next version. The "X" should close it fine till then.

It seems to crash for everyone after 10-15 minutes. If it is working for you please let us know.

It's a distribution method too. If you think it is more pay than the effort is worth go get your own piece of that free money.

For sure, I haven't bought a coin in a long time.

This is true, don't buy either unless you are prepared to buy more.

How about actually sending the PMs or responding to PMs?

You can easily sell 1000 bitcoins near the market price without even going to multiple markets.

This shows current MtGox offer volume, bitcoinity.org/markets. 2000 coins sold instantly would drop the price less than 0.5%.

The "they" who does the buying is any person or business who wants or need coins. If no one wants them there will be no one to sell to.

The dollar amount of the last public trade times the number of coins is how the number is calculated, which is currently over $800M, but don't put too much stock in that. Obviously all coins could not be bought or sold at that price.

Deposits are back.

Right now you are getting that because Seals pointed to 127.0.0.1 until 30 seconds ago. And the cert is not god for your home of course.

There is a chance that you will get the same error at our new IP, it is safe.

We should be back up within an hour. Deposits won't credit for some time after that.

Cashouts will be immediately available. We are very very sorry that you haven't had access to your money at Seals.

Unfortunately we cannot be positive that our new setup will resist the attack if it follows us which turned out to be extraordinarily strong. We do have plans if the attack returns even stronger, but it will potentially mean some more downtime.

If you need your coins make a cashout request right away and it will be paid promptly.

Most tournaments will be offline at first except for some low stakes and some freerolls while we see how everything runs. We haven't made a decision about the Big BTC yet.

Thanks so much for your support and patience. We expect and hope this will be the end of our troubles.

We are getting closer, but it will likely still be over 6 hours.

No ransom demand.

It is hard to guess at the motive with nothing to go on, we're just concentrating on making it as difficult as possible to knock us down in the future.

We have chosen to move to a data center with stronger DDoS protection. Unfortunately that means it will take hours at least, possible a full day.

When we came back online briefly in the middle of the night I was able to award chips for stacks in the Daily Bitcoin, but nothing else yet. Other refunds will be made as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.

I don't know why.

We were back online for a while and I was able to make the Daily Bitcoin balance adjustments, but there was lag and we are offline again now.

We have confirmation that it is a heavy DDoS attack. Cloudflare isn't able to protect us from this one.

Nothing is lost. When we solve this everything will be made right.