Any ideas why the DDOS attacks are so fierce? This little "nobody" of a coin is suddenly catching the attention of the Crypto world and might be a threat to DRK, etc.
It is not cheap to constantly do DDOS attacks. Perhaps it is from the same bots that are mining it, but any plans for a P2P miner?
Lastly, the huge volume is intense. 480 BTC traded on Poloniex, interesting...
Someone is taking notice.
Several different leads
- people sick of overly large pool
- competition/haters
- people willing to momentarily discredit monero in order to buy more
The usual thing

Edit: pool wars is another possibility, thanks sammy007.