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CBOE Tweeted a status update which said “Due to heavy traffic on our website, visitors to cboe.com may find that it is performing slower than usual and may at times be temporarily unavailable. All trading systems are operating normally.”
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I´m wondering why the official website of the CBOE was impacted by the big demand.
Originally, I was under the impression that the CBOE was basically providing only the back-end for the Bitcoin futures, while the investors
and retail clients had to use a broker to actually trade the futures. E.g. Schwab or TD Ameritrade in the US or Interactive Brokers
for traders that reside in Europe. Therefore the trading engines of the brokers would have to be impacted by the big demand
if the slower performance was actually caused by the mentioned reason.
Consequently, I think the CBOE website was subject to a DDoS attack by some entity, which has an interest to harm
the launch of the Bitcoin futures (e.g. someone with a big BTC short position).
