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by mrb 4805 days ago
Transactions only cause lag on their trading engine. They are not the reason their whole website and online presence disappear!

When MtGox denies service, like today, this is because of a DDoS. They have said multiple times that they see 10+ Gbps (SYN flood and UDP packets) hitting their servers on a weekly basis!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166578.msg1737375#ms...