Quote Originally Posted by simpdog View Post
Will be interesting to see if this becomes more common. If you're a criminal enterprise (not a sick enterprise) do you DoS mtgox for a few hours to drop the price $40-50 then buy some more bitcoins? Rinse/repeat once a week?
That's got to have diminishing returns. If it's getting DDoSed on a regular basis, people will just get used to it and stop panic selling. It will also have less of an impact if other exchanges become more prominent.

I'm sure there's many other ways to induce panic, given how skeptical so many people are with bitcoin.