Almost every major Bitcoin website has been under DDOS attack over the past few days. Its becoming a real problem, not just for the exchanges. It is also opening up other vulnerabilities.
Installing defensive tech (like cloudflare) is not enough. Isnt the Bitcoin community supposed to include some of the best hackers in the world? We should set up a bounty and take the fight to whatever botnets are trying to mess with Bitcoin.
Nobody is messing with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is distributed, and so far it's doing fine.
DDoS's are targetting centralized weak-links in the Bitcoin economy, and putting into light how
these centralized businesses ARE the real danger for the Bitcoin economy. We should be grateful greedy botnet operators are showing us what our achilles' heel is before this gets exploited mercilessly by our real ennemies. The only way to "fight back" is to make everything decentralized. As an individual, the best you can do is walk your talk and vote with your money by supporting innovative ideas that help decentralizing economic activity.