Quote from: Keyur @ Camp BX on July 05, 2013, 11:49:53 PM

Our sincerest apologies for the slowdown during today's spike in activity. To give you an overview of the problem, our trade-engine code executes trades in under 20ms, however the Bitcoin-bound code takes 10x-30x longer to settle the trade. Bitcoin client is still in beta at version 0.8, so putting heavy, real-time load through it is the performance bottleneck. All Bitcoin start-ups are struggling around the same issue. Other Bitcoin websites use a detached/decoupled architecture to work around the problem, while we have decided to take a different approach and fix the root cause.

Wait what? Your trading engine is directly linked to the Bitcoin client, so that each trade is sent as transactions to your bitcoin client and broadcast to the blockchain...(this seems like madness)