Quote from: achow101 on June 03, 2017, 04:50:31 AM

You can't. I know for certain that all versions of Bitcoin/Bitcoin-qt 0.7.2 and earlier will not be able to sync with the network due to an insufficient number of Berkeley DB locks which then essentially imposed a block size limit at around 500kB. This issue is what caused the March 2013 fork. Because of this, all versions of Bitcoin/bitcoin-qt 0.7.2 and earlier will be unable to fully sync the blockchain.

This is bullshit. Not just garden-variety bullshit, but military-grade weaponized bullshit.

This is exactly what happens when people willfully don't read documentation as a matter of development policy.

It is exactly like the proverbial "giving people just enough rope to hang themselves".

I posted about this on the same night it happened because I was driving long distance and couldn't really stop for a full post earlier.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152208.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152030.msg1616542#msg1616542

Quote from: 2112 on March 12, 2013, 05:36:07 PM

The "manual tweak" is exactly two lines. Anyone can apply it, because the recompilation is not necessary. All it takes is to create a short text file and restart the bitcoin client.

Those threads are interesting read for anyone wondering how Bitcoin ended up with a fragmented development community that we have now. You'll understand how the division lines were drawn and what methods of disinformation were applied. I certainly was enlightened on that very afternoon-evening-night about what was really going on amongst the leading developers and pool operators.