Tough Day For Bitcoin Exchanges: Gox DDOS’d, Bitcoin-24 Halted, BitFloor Shuts Down Permanently

UPDATE: See our analysis of this DDoS in our newer post: Have We Reached A Turning Point For Bitcoin Exchange DDoS? Quite a day already for Bitcoin exchanges, but I want to remind anyone reading this: exchanges and other private companies are not bitcoin. We are in the infancy of what may be the greatest fundamental shift for human society of the 21st century. There are going to be hiccups as the market develops, that does make the underlying bitcoin protocol any less viable. In fact, there are even some glimmers of hope in the darkness. See below for an …