Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue

it.slashdot.org 12 Mar '13, 12pm

Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue

"The Bitcoin blockchain has forked due to a lurking backward-compatibility issue : versions older than 0.8 do not properly handle blocks larger than about 500k, and Slush's pool mined a 974k block today. The problem is that not all mining operations are on 0.8; blocks are being generated by a mix of several different versions of the daemon, each making its own decision as to which of the two forks is preferable to extend, and older versions refuse to honor or extend from a block of this size. The consensus on #bitcoin-dev is damage control: miners need to mine on pre-0.8 code so the backward-compatible fork will outgrow and thus dominate the compatibility-breaking one; merchants need to stop accepting transactions until the network re-converges on the backward-compatible fork of the chain; and average users can ignore the warning that they are out of sync and need to upgra...

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@tsuki_chama » 13 Mar '13, 5pm
Whenever I read a technical article on BitCoin, I'm never quite sure if I'm reading real English or a subtle variant [link]
@absvrdist » 13 Mar '13, 4am
@rabite the only threat to btc are the criminal incompetent tech geeks [link]
@PeterLynden » 12 Mar '13, 11pm
Well that explains that then! [link]
» 12 Mar '13, 10pm
Bitcoin forked by client fragmentation: [link]
@BlankSteve » 12 Mar '13, 5pm
@Homerthestoner Version incompatibility [link]
@joncamfield » 12 Mar '13, 3pm
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@jolwalton » 12 Mar '13, 2pm
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@OrwellUpgraded » 12 Mar '13, 1pm
Oops. Bitcoin fuckup! MT @leashless Version incompatibility caused the database of stored value to divide in two. [link]
@leashless » 12 Mar '13, 12pm
Bitcoin blunder [link] a protocol version incompatibility has caused the database of stored value to divide in two. Crisis.
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@floorter » 12 Mar '13, 12pm
Ik had nog bedacht dat blijkbaar alle bitcoin software exact dezelfde software is. [link] #monocultuur
@sex_Spears321 » 12 Mar '13, 12pm
RT @floorter: @mathijsfietst Gaat dit betekenen dat de nieuwste 8.0 fork bitcoins gaan verdwijnen? [link]
@floorter » 12 Mar '13, 12pm
@mathijsfietst Gaat dit betekenen dat de nieuwste 8.0 fork bitcoins gaan verdwijnen? [link]
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