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From: "theymos" <theymos@mm.st>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:07:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316038060.2261.140258141234677@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgQJqRZ0wPak3Ub1nN6gp9Y1MgU=rgPGTZMwPZZ7Mc5JYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:51 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> General network health and user security _requires_ periodic upgrades
> in any case, and will for the foreseeable future. The whole notion
> that old versions will _stop working_ would be a pretty good thing at
> this point in bitcoin's existence, judging by the high number of pre-
> .24 listeners still reported.

Backward-compatibility is valuable. I believe version 0.1 will still
more or less work on the current network. This is a real selling point
for Bitcoin: the code is solid enough that even 2-year-old clients are
still working.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13 15:06 [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues Gavin Andresen
2011-09-13 15:15 ` Vladimir Marchenko
2011-09-13 15:54 ` John Smith
2011-09-13 16:24 ` kjj
2011-09-14 14:45   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-14 15:43     ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-14 16:06       ` Christian Decker
2011-09-14 19:52     ` Aidan Thornton
2011-09-14 20:09       ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-09-14 20:28         ` Gavin Andresen
2011-09-14 21:36           ` Alex Waters
2011-09-14 21:51             ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-09-14 22:07               ` theymos [this message]
2011-09-14 23:01         ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-13 16:48 ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-14 21:45 ` theymos
2011-11-07 15:02 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-11-07 15:27   ` Luke-Jr
2011-11-07 15:43     ` Pieter Wuille

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