I doubt any conspiracies against US or Europe, I'm living in Asia and couldn't get my order through !
I'm in ASIA, and my site where I got past the CATCHA, explicitly told me that orders in english to be shipped to ASIA were not being processed.
That was during the first ten minutes of start, exactly at 11:05, after 11:10, like everybody else I never got that far ever again, but during my first attempt, I got as far as choose your shipper, and the the site told me that NO ENGLISH orders could be sent to ASIA.
I thought this odd, as I have an outstanding account and have ordered before here in ASIA, its clear that that BATCH was 100% ran by ALIBABA, and that it was orchestrated by their RULES.
It appears that some kind of VOUCHER was required and you had to be a ALIBABA reseller to actually get your order processed, and it had to be orginiated on the chinese language bitmain.com site.
Next time they promote this fraud sale on twitter.com/bitmaintech, I'm not even going to bother with the english, I'm going straight to the chinese portal, but note you have to first use the alibaba ( gl-goo ) link provided on twitter to get your order in the cart, then use the normal bitmain.com, and process the cart.
There is no conspiracy here, its a simple fact that this site bitcointalk.org is AMAZON, and that BITMAIN is OWNED by ALIBABA, that amazon/alibaba are working together to create an artificial 'shortage' of miners, so they can fleece the sheep.
How did we end up with this guy? Dude, trace-routing bitmain's site and seeing Alibaba stuff doesn't mean anything. Also, half of the world's largest websites run on Amazon's web services, which also doesn't mean anything. Stop trying to connect dots that aren't connected. I'm in the US and DID get 1-order to go through last night. I didn't realize it until it expired, but it did go through. Also, most of us here have had no issues in the past and this traffic issue only started in the last couple of months.