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Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

ASDFnz writes "It has been just over two months since the bitcoin block chain was rocked by a near disastrous fork causing the bitcoin price to crash. The culprit of the crash was found to be a bug that prevented pre version 7.1 bitcoin clients accepting large blocks that could be generated by version 8 clients. A temporary fix was put into place by Bitcoin Project lead developer Gavin Andresen that forced version 8 clients to generate blocks that version 7.1 could understand. It is important to note though, the fix was a temporary one! In just under two days on the 15th of May the fix will expire and version 8 clients will once again be able to make large blocks that older clients will not be able to understand."

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  1. Those disastrous forks by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those disastrous forks can be a real nuisance.

  2. Damn by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, I thought this was going to be the last forking warning against posting Bitcoin stories on Slashdot.

  3. Let me see if I understand this by davidbrit2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Basically, the long block chains are $2 bills, and the 7.1 client is Taco Bell. Is that about right?