Not to ruin the plot... but it's over already. The panic was less than impressive.
Of course. It was just an accident, some core devs were awake watching anxiously the onset of BIP66, the two pools involved cooperated promptly, etc..
That was not an attack: someone just sneezed. See, the building stopped shaking already.
Right. If bitcoin can survive the scorn and ridicule of a Brazilian professor, it can survive this little kerfuffle.
This will just be used as ammo in the argument against larger blocks (rightly so, imo)