What evidence do you have that each of these sites weren't going down just because of real high traffic? I don't think it's at all unreasonable to think that e

What evidence do you have that each of these sites weren't going down just because of real high traffic? I don't think it's at all unreasonable to think that each of those sites would have naturally seen their greatest traffic surge with the events of yesterday. For example, over 20% of all subscribers were present on /r/bitcoin (for comparison, (eg) /r/android is currently at about 0.5%, /r/bitcoin is around 10% now).