Hacker News Reader

Someone thought it'd be cool to hack some popular exchanges and info sites. And now everyone sells in panic.

Most probably the hacker is short-selling BTC (or, dumping off stolen BTC from an attack)

Domino effect? And is this caused because we use the data from just one major site? (MtGox)

> Most probably the hacker is short-selling BTC

How? Where can you short Bitcoin at the moment?

Convince someone to lend you BTC, or use coins you stole in an attack or otherwise illicitly acquired.