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Mt. Gox is in the midst of a major technical overhaul of its exchange. Gay-Bouchery said Mt. Gox is rebuilding its trading platform from the ground up. We're t

by trotsky 14y ago

Mt. Gox is in the midst of a major technical overhaul of its exchange. Gay-Bouchery said Mt. Gox is rebuilding its trading platform from the ground up. We're throwing out our entire OLTP system, but trust us - the lag and error pages that have been popping up on our heaviest trading day of the year are caused by hackers.

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CapitalistCartr 14y ago
Attackers. They're not hackers, they're vandals throwing eggs at your house.
Karunamon 14y ago
Yes it's entirely more likely that they're breaking their own service (which with transaction fees is their primary income source) rather than some person or group screwing with the exchange in order to influence the price.
- trotsky 14y ago
  Heh. I'm suggesting their trading platform is having trouble scaling, not that they're doing it on purpose.