South Korean Bitcoin " Investor " allegedly launched the DDoS attack that closed the Weiss Ratings website after the agency gave the cryptocurrency A note 'C +';

According to a press release citing " many mentions on social networks " on Weiss's attack plans, the staff was " standing all night "try to restore the normal service after the publication of notes for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency on Thursday.

" Previous comments on social media expressed a considerable fear that we were about to publish negative notes on their favorite currencies " The founder Martin D. Weiss commented, " so this may be an attempt to thwart our liberation today. "

No cryptocurrency has managed to collect a "A & # 39; ; on the Weiss list, while the rating agency The other findings also drew criticism from commentators

Bitcoin Cash was only slightly worse than Bitcoin himself with C-, so Ethereum got a B and a Dogecoin C, also placing it just below Bitcoin in terms of providence. ]

" All else being equal, as a cryptocurrency overcomes its individual challenges, it is likely to be updated quickly ," adds Weiss while adopting a tone one little more bullish

During the week of the Davos World Economic Forum in 2018, legacy finance entities provide curious assessments of cryptocurrency while it faces its most challenging year dominant.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry tells Cointelegraph that crypto "has value" At the time of the event, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, denied in private that he was a "skeptic" with regard to Bitcoin.