Obviously, these days are not here yet and it leaves me to ponder this question, did the well conceived, concerted Ddos effort to quash the exchanges abilities to cater to the needs of new buyers occur in order to deliberately devalue the BTC and cause it to slide out of public favor and, was the source of these attacks not so much 'rogue' forces attempting to deliberately manipulate markets to make for themselves a shady profit, but some high level hacking by those administrations within the G8 who saw the potential for the BTC as a new alternate currency over which they had no real power?
   Perhaps inside the TOR network might be the safest place to put the next 'Mt.Gox'? That is, if the major banks of the world (in partnership with the G8 and under a contract with clauses where the ownership of BTC is regulated to include full and open disclosure to those governing bodies of the identities of those who are purchasing BTC and also with the inclusion of equally mandatory, conditional requirement to allow the tracking of the detailed market movements of every BTC)
   I wonder if they aren't already arming their IT departments amd the world's largest supercomputer to assist in vending the BTC as the future 'media ordained' 'safe' brokers and take full advantage for themselves of this inevitable slide away from the world's ever crumbling hard currencies?