Re:Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits tempor...
by jimrandomh on Monday March 11, 2013 @11:04PM
(#5359824)
The block exceeded a size limit in the Berkeley DB storage that the client uses to store the blockchain. By the spec, 0.7 is wrong to reject it.
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Re:Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits tempor...
by sturmeh on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @12:18AM
(#5360128)
Indeed.
They do not need everyone to stop using 0.8, just a majority (so that the 0.7 chain becomes the strongest).
You would need to get everyone to stop using 0.7 (or much more than a majority, or as soon as another block of this kind resurfaces the clients would be useless again).
0.8 accepts blocks that 0.7 rejects, 0.8 does not reject any blocks that 0.7 accepts. So 0.7 is more compatible going forward until the problem is solved with 0.9 etc.