[sillysaurus2]

The seriousness of this attack is that several major bitcoin services lost a lot of money because of it. It's an attack.

[erikpukinskis]

It's an attack, it's just not an attack on Bitcoin.

[sillysaurus2]

This is mincing words. It's an attack on bitcoin. Many major exchanges were shuttered while they dealt with it, for example.

It's certainly not an attack on not-bitcoin, so therefore it's an attack on bitcoin.

[onnoonno]

Bitcoin the protocol? Bitcoin the idea? Bitcoin the network? Bitcoin the whole ecosystem?

I would argue it was an attack on Bitcoin the ecosystem, due to an _oddity_ of Bitcoin the protocol. Bitcoin the idea is still fully alive. The attack worked from within Bitcoin, the network.

[jimktrains2]

There's an attack on credit cards because Target had a breach!

See, I can say ridiculous things too. Someone using bitcoins didn't follow protocol and as such as scammed out of money. This isn't a bitcoins-protocol issue, this is a people issue.

Note that the other exchanges are up now, very quickly after everyone stopped to check themselves.

[smackfu]

The Target hack certainly disrupted the credit card system, by causing a lot of reissued cards.

[jimktrains2]

That doesn't really disrupt the system though. It's not causing issues for anyone who hasn't had their card canceled and reïssued.