MtGox claims no DDoS, can other exchanges confirm?

[alkhdaniel]

https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/455962117821534

I have a very hard time believing in this.

Are there any big exchange operators (btc24/btc-e/bitstamp/btcde/bitfloor) on here that can confirm that they themselves were not DDoSed?
The reason I'm having a hard time believing this is because btc-e/bitcoin 24/bitfloor were all down for about 3 minutes just before the first crash happened ($250->$220).
After the price dropped to $220 mtgox was starting to come down to 300sec lag, just as it hit 300sec lag all the exchanges went down for 2-3 minutes (bitfloor for a little while longer) again and mtgox changed direction and grew towards 4500sec lag.

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[antimattercrusader]

Even this site was down for a while.

[alkhdaniel]

Even this site was down for a while.

Yeah, most exchanges started lagging a bit / going down for 5-15 seconds every now and then in the middle of the second crash ($220->108). I believe that was because of because of huge traffic and not DDoS. However the two weird points were just before the crash actually happened and at $220.

[Maged]

This very forum can confirm it:

I think that it is legitimate traffic, but there is a ridiculous amount of it: ~250 requests per second.

[alkhdaniel]

This very forum can confirm it:

I think that it is legitimate traffic, but there is a ridiculous amount of it: ~250 requests per second.

What was your traffic just 12 hours ago (If you even can check that now)? That was when the first lag wave started happening before a brief slow down, around 9 hours ago the second lag wave showed up. Around 1 hour after that I believe legit traffic started showing up (8 hours ago)

Maybe I'm just a bit delusional ^^

edit: Everything might just have lined up in a suspicious way based on the exchanges I'm using, it might have just been an coincidence I guess. I can't help to think something about it all was shady though (I also called the crash on skype 10 minutes before it happened saying "Weekly DDoS just started" @ 3:26PM UTC >_<.

[4/10/2013 3:26:29 PM] alkhdaniel: bitcoin crash is about to happen
[4/10/2013 3:26:34 PM] alkhdaniel: this same thing happens almost every week
[4/10/2013 3:26:38 PM] alkhdaniel: somebody dumps an large'ish sum of bitcoins
[4/10/2013 3:26:43 PM] alkhdaniel: then starts ddosing the exchanges
[4/10/2013 3:26:46 PM] alkhdaniel: everyone starts panicking, selling their coins
[4/10/2013 3:26:52 PM] alkhdaniel: then he probably buys back his coins for a cheaper price
[4/10/2013 3:27:13 PM] alkhdaniel: so fucking gay
-20 seconds later-
[4/10/2013 3:27:33 PM] alkhdaniel: https://bitcoin-24.com/
[4/10/2013 3:27:33 PM] alkhdaniel: Website currently unavailable
[4/10/2013 3:27:33 PM] alkhdaniel: https://btc-e.com/exchange
[4/10/2013 3:27:33 PM] alkhdaniel: Website currently unavailable
[4/10/2013 3:27:51 PM] alkhdaniel: Mtgox trading engine lag: 313.98s
[4/10/2013 3:29:31 PM] alkhdaniel: $244
[4/10/2013 3:29:53 PM] alkhdaniel: exchanges are back up!
[4/10/2013 3:31:29 PM] alkhdaniel: https://bitfloor.com/user/trade
[4/10/2013 3:31:29 PM] alkhdaniel: Bitfloor
[4/10/2013 3:31:29 PM] alkhdaniel: The servers are misbehaving.

This is a chart of mtgox usd, look at 3:25pm to to 3:35pm, there was almost no bitcoins sold or bought during this time, yet all the big exchanges went down and mtgox got 1000sec+ lag. Look at what happened around 3:20pm to 3:25pm, a large'ish sale.

https://i.imgur.com/SEYCjn7.png - the middle line is (probably) 3:30pm

[gogxmagog]

This very forum can confirm it:

I think that it is legitimate traffic, but there is a ridiculous amount of it: ~250 requests per second.

indeed, there are now major investors playing with bitcoin, but they play it like every other investment they trade; pump & dump. they are all over the exchanges trying to profit from the fluctuations in price and jamming up the system and bringing the price down. Bitcoin was not intended to be an investment vehicle, but at these ridiculous price jumps, you can't expect the moneyboys to treat it like anything else. could spell the demise of this little experiment we got here.

but yeah, I believe MtGox. Just hoards of greed-head bottomfeeders stripping the tree bare.