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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Alert: chain fork caused by pre-0.8 clients dealing badly with large blocks
by
marcus_of_augustus
on 14/03/2013, 19:49:12 UTC
evilpete

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But more than 51% of the hash power has to stay behind until a good 90%+ of nodes have been upgraded.

This tries to swim against the tide of all individual incentives built into the system.

Why would anyone want to be on a version that the miners are not using? ... you are opening yourself up to the possible risk of ending up on a useless fork.