Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks
PANIC SELL!!
Price has just dropped to $30...
Im buying at $29
Price has just dropped to $30...
Im buying at $29
On which exchange?
He's bullshitting. There really isn't a big issue. In fact, I usually don't upgrade my software until there are other versions out after the one I upgrade to, so that I can avoid any issues like this. So everyone just relax.
The issue isn't with 0.8, it's with 0.7 and lower. Because people like you didn't upgrade, we had to endure this chain fork.
Yep, my 600mhash is really fucking the network.
If all the pools, miners, merchants, and users upgraded, this would have been a non-issue.
And that is true. But I am on 0.7.2, and like I said in my post, I refuse to upgrade software to 0.8 until something newer comes out, or unless my transactions will cease to work properly because I'm on 0.7.2. Trying to pin this on me is comical at best. There are hundreds of thousands of users who haven't even upgraded to 0.7.2, not to mention the ones who haven't upgraded to 0.8. So I am the least of your troubles.
Hundreds of thousands of users? I see less than 10k nodes:
http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/branches.html