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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
there is a difference between typical market manipulation through rumors, sell offs, etc and downing the bitcoin sites. it would like someone calling in a bomb threat to wallstreet and shutting it down.
its just so easy to ddos sites. the same people mining bitcoins with botnets are most likely the same ones ddosing the sites. they already have the botnets.
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check out michael milken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken
another would be enron, they completely cornered and fucked the energy markets.
i don't disagree that it's easy to ddos, but this was a very coordinated attack at more than one well protected site, not protected enough, but it seems plausible that serious btc speculators could have done it.