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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks
by
justusranvier
on 13/03/2013, 14:51:10 UTC
So, a regular user who isn't mining should simply have waited a couple of hours and the issue of the fork would be resolved by the network... fine, great...

But what about miners? How is this going to be resolved for miners going forward?
Reddit said that BTCGuild and their ilk have changed back to 0.7, that's great for them but what about people using p2pool? p2pool interfaces with your BC client and as such it would mean everyone with p2pool has to downgrade to 0.7...

Are there plans for a 0.8.1 which resolves this or what?

Anyone knows the answer?
Miners can still use 0.8 as long as they don't create problematic blocks. People running p2pool can stay on 0.8 as long as the don't increase the soft block size limit too high.