Why DDOS?  These attacks are system wide on every Ltc and Btc pool on the planet.  Ever since the Cyprus financial crisis and its lead up, bitcoin and litecoin have had amazing growth.  With this growth has come fear from many groups outside of the btc/ltc "world".  Speculation on how btc/ltc can and is affecting real world currencies is scaring the crap out of major financial institutions and many world governments. 

It should come as no surprise that using or purpetuating btc/ltc makes targets of us all by old world financial as we are using a non-traceable, non-taxable form of currency and trade. 

Ask yourself, if you were the head of a national central bank and you noticed hundreds of millions of dollars being dumped into some digital currency, wouldn't you want it stopped?

Now ask yourself, what groups on the planet have the power to knock out both btc/ltc exchanges AND most of the btc/ltc mining pools at the same time?  Any moderately well-read person will come up with is rather small list with that specific capability...

I will continue to mine despite the current issues.