Bueno pues parece que se confirma que lo de ayer fué una especie de auto-DDoS. Vamos, lo que se llama "morir de éxito"...
Mashable - Bitcoin Was the 'Victim of Its Own Success,' Not DDOS Attack
TechCrunch | Bitcoin Price-Drop Caused By Rush Of Interest, Not DDOS, Says Mt.Gox Exchange; Newcomers Now Opening ~20k Accounts Per Day
Cifras extraídas de los artículos que lo atestiguan:
Durante todo Marzo MtGox abrió 60.000 cuentas
Sólo en la
primera semana de abril MtGox abrió 70.000 cuentas.
Se están abriendo 20.000 cuentas al día!!!
Sumémosle el crecimiento exponencial de descarga y apertura de wallets, y cuando pasen los ataques DDoS de esta mañana (confirmados por MtGox) la cosa se va a poner muy interesante...
Podemos estar ante un bear trap de manual.
Hi everyone, just a quick update on the situation and what happened last night.
First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success!
Indeed the rather astonishing amount of new account opened in the last few days added to the existing one plus the number of trade made a huge impact on the overall system that started to lag. As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (Panic Sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine!
To give you an idea of how impressive things were here are some numbers that we would love to share with you guys:
- The number of trades executed triple in the last 24hrs.
- The number of new account opened went from 60k for March alone to 75k new account created for the first few days of April! We now have roughly 20,000 new accounts created each day.
Due to these facts we have been busy working on improving things since last week and our team has been working around the clock to improve Mt.Gox to catch up with the demand. We will continue to release several updates today and in the coming few days to improve our system overall performance.
Also please note that we may have to close the exchange for two hours in the next 12 to 24hrs to add several new servers to our system.
Thank you for your understanding and continuous support!
Update:*A notice on Mt.Gox’s Facebook page,*posted several hours after the prior update,*confirms the planned network downtime maintenance has been completed. However it also says the exchange is now under DDOS attack.
Bitcoin Price-Drop Caused By Rush Of Interest, Not DDOS, Says Mt.Gox Exchange; Newcomers Now Opening ~20k Accounts Per Day | TechCrunch