Quote from: dadrizforshizz on April 19, 2013, 06:10:28 PM

Per Cnet article: "Attackers wait until the price of Bitcoins reaches a certain value, sell, destabilize the exchange, wait for everybody to panic-sell their Bitcoins, wait for the price to drop to a certain amount, then stop the attack and start buying as much as they can," the Japan-based exchange said in a statement at the time. "Repeat this two or three times like we saw over the past few days and they profit."

Any truth to this, or something deeper behind the scenes?

Just follow the money...
The exchanges profit the most from volatility and conveniently timed shut-downs...
Anyone can hire a BotNet and stage a DDoS attack.

I'm sure Gox has made 100 times more from BTC ownership...
And ongoing, expert market manipulation...
Then they have from their dinky 0.5% trading fees.

People think the NYSE is some kind of pillar of society...
There to do noble work for the little people.

Sorry, no... they are just a bunch of white collar crooks...
As a Pro Trader for 15 years I'm deeply cynical where $$$ is involved...
Human nature is what it is.