比特币币值被腰斩 Mt.Gox发布紧急澄清公告

昨天晚上，在最大的BTC网上交易所Mt.Gox，BTC币值从最高的266美元一路暴跌到105美元，被腰斩一半多。目前币值175美元，并没有完全恢复。

关于这次暴跌，传言是由于Mt.Gox遭到一场大规模的DDOS攻击，更有专家说成。为此Mt.Gox发布公告，紧急澄清此次事件，并非由于DDOS攻击，而是因为Mt.Gox近期新注册用户过多，交易量猛增造成Mt.Gox系统整体性能跟不上。以下是比特币爱好者[btcfans.com]为您翻译的公告全文：

东京 - 日本 - 2013年4月11日

大家好，这只是一个快速的更新情况还有关于昨晚发生的事情。

首先，我们想向你保证，但我们昨晚并不是DDoS攻击的受害者，而是我们自己的成功的受害者！

事实上，在过去数天开设新帐户的量相当惊人，以至于对现有的交易数量造成了巨大的影响，开始落后于整体系统。

正如预期的那样，在这样的情况下，人们开始恐慌，开始卖出比特币的数量（恐慌抛售）导致交易系统的增加！

为了给你一个直观的印象，这里有一些令人印象深刻的数字，我们很乐意与你们分享：

- 在过去的24小时内，执行的交易数量翻了三倍。

- 开设新帐户的数量，从3月份的60K，到四月初的75K！

我们现在每一天有大约20,000个新创建的帐户。由于这些事实，我们一直忙于工作改善的事情，因为上周已经和我们的团队日以继夜地工作，以改善Mt.Gox赶上需求。我们将继续发布今天的几次更新，未来数天也将有持续的更新，以改善我们的系统整体性能。

另外请注意，为了添加一些新的服务器到我们的系统，在未来的12到24小时，我们可能不得不关闭两个小时的交易。

谢谢您的理解和持续的支持！

此致

Mt.Gox有限公司。

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TOKYO - JAPAN - April 11, 2013

Hi everyone, just a quick update on the situation and what happened last night.

First of all we would like to reassure you but no we were not last night victim of a DDoS but instead victim of our own success! Indeed the rather astonishing amount of new account opened in the last few days added to the existing one plus the number of trade made a huge impact on the overall system that started to lag.

As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (Panic Sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine!

To give you an idea of how impressive things were here are some numbers that we would love to share with you guys:

- The number of trades executed tripled in the last 24hrs.

- The number of new account opened went from 60k for March alone to 75k new account created for the first few days of April! We now have roughly 20,000 new accounts created each day.

Due to these facts we have been busy working on improving things since last week and our team has been working around the clock to improve Mt.Gox to catch up with the demand.

We will continue to release several updates today and in the coming few days to improve our system overall performance.

Also please note that we may have to close the exchange for two hours in the next 12 to 24hrs to add several new servers to our system.

Thank you for your understanding and continuous support!

Regards

Mt.Gox Co. Ltd Team.

公告原文来自：https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.html