Quote from: evoorhees on March 12, 2013, 03:57:15 AM

Quote from: joecooin on March 12, 2013, 03:51:27 AM

Quote from: tvbcof on March 12, 2013, 03:05:07 AM

I personally am surprised and delighted that we move in this direction (back to the universal fork as trunk) rather than force an upgrade.

So am I.

I thought only once banks or governments start cracking down on Bitcoin we will appreciate Bitcoins's capability of graceful degration [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system] but it only took a flaw to proove that it has that capability.

My deep respect for the devs who took this issue on and solved it. You guys made Bitcoin and my believe in it even stronger.

To blockchain eternity!

Joe

I think I kinda understand why this is a good thing, but can you explain like I'm five? Basically, why would it have been bad to let the 0.8 chain continue?

Is the reason that it'd "force" older users to upgrade and that's a mean thing to do?

I imagine that most services and many pools haven't upgraded to 0.8 yet, it is simply a safer bet to wait. (You can ask Gareth what BitInstant is running on)
If we stayed on 0.8 it would take a LONG time for all services to get up to snuff. By going back to 0.7 everyone will be aligned within a few hours.