If you want to send 1 BTC to me I would greatly appreciate it and would spend it immediately thus keeping supporting the system.

It is nuts all the FUD going around though. In a couple weeks it will be on to the next big thing causing speculation and or other stuff.
This denial of service was launched by myself in my mother's basement using a TRS-80 workstation. It will only stop once the ransom of 1,000,000 BTC has been paid by the Bitcoin community. If you want your network back then all of you need to start paying up. The sooner that the address below accumulates 1,000,000 BTC, the sooner you get your network back.
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I have sent 5BTC please stop the attack and open the exchanges.
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But you haven't DDOS'd Bitcoin yet?
As you know, every diabolical scheme I've hatched has been thwarted by Austin Powers. And why is that, ladies and gentlemen?
Okay no problem. Here's my second plan. Back in the 60's, I had a weather changing machine that was, in essence, a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser." Using these "lasers," we punch a hole in the protective layer around the Earth, which we scientists call the "Ozone Layer." Slowly but surely, ultraviolet rays would pour in, increasing the risk of skin cancer. That is unless the world pays us a hefty ransom.
I assume that you would want a hundred quantillion-billion-trillion-jillion dollars but there are only 21 million bitcoins, how much should we send you?