Quote from: Bitcoin Megastore on May 18, 2013, 01:25:53 PM

Quote from: yantis on May 18, 2013, 11:21:34 AM

Its worth noting the official windows client says "WARNING: Checkpoint is too old. Wait for block chain to download or notify developers"

As far as I understand the issue there, it could be fixed by adding hash of some recent block to checkpoints.cpp file at github and compiling new client.

Code:

// Is the sync-checkpoint too old?
bool IsSyncCheckpointTooOld(unsigned int nSeconds)
{
LOCK(cs_hashSyncCheckpoint);
// sync-checkpoint should always be accepted block
assert(mapBlockIndex.count(hashSyncCheckpoint));
const CBlockIndex* pindexSync = mapBlockIndex[hashSyncCheckpoint];
return (pindexSync->GetBlockTime() + nSeconds < GetAdjustedTime());
}

What's the point of that checkpoint age test? Wouldn't the blocks eventually get old requiring an update to the hard coded checkpoint list?