My suspicion is that MPEX is down so people don't pull money to cash out on the price hike.
MPEx wasn't down. The website (mpex.co) was inaccessible to some due to somebody trying to DDOS the service. As explained here that doesn't work, MPEx is immune to DDOS attacks. The people that had read that at the time, as well as the people who know that Bitcoin finance happens on #bitcoin-assets on Freenode were fine. The people that hadn't read it and stick to secondary / irrelevant venues were temporarily delayed.
My suspicion is that MPEX is down so people don't pull money to cash out on the price hike.
Maybe mpex can ask bitcointalk forum how to run a forum with thousands of database queries and thousands of users and make it so it doesn't go down.
This forum is down for about two to five hours every week. MPEx was never down (at all) since it was started - and that's in 2011. Get your facts straight, this sort of nonsense is offensive.
wtf? One stock wunder-bazaar is down? Really?
No.
people are selling because btc/usd jumps ?
Possibly some people want to realize profits. Also MPOE options saw major activity (we're talking ~40k+ BTC notional exposure these past 24 hours only - that's close to half of all MtGox trade or more than all the other exchanges combined) which perhaps required liquidity (it's unlikely that large players sold S.DICE to clear BTC, but it's probable they forewent buying any).
I don't know. Nobody seems to be commenting on business-related reasons for the stock's diminishing popularity.
Well now, see above.
