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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Ok to use 0.8.x?
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:17:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A5D3D-9CB1-4E35-A017-A5E0F42BFF39@petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2Ti28baaYbbYvNxUgb2PNz0UjURkE5ROtmdSJ8nxvp4+fFKA@mail.gmail.com>

Hardware mining rigs do not need updating - they all are designed to connect directly to a pool and it is the pool that makes all block related decisions. All the miner, or as I prefer to call them hasher, sees is an 80 byte block header and possibly with stratum and getblocktemplate enough other information like a partial merkle tree to roll the extranonce.

On 2013-03-16, at 18:04, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Bitcoin version 0.8.0 is safe to use for everything EXCEPT creating blocks.
>>> 
>>> So: safe for everybody except solo miners / pool operators.
>> 
>> And even solo miners / pool operators can use it if connected to the network only through a 0.7 node.
> 
> I'll go ahead and use 0.8.x since it will be just transactions and queries.
> 
> I'm guessing this will all be fixed in a couple weeks and that ASIC and FPGA
> miners will have their softcode updated, as will the pure softminers (GPU).
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-16 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14  2:49 [Bitcoin-development] Ok to use 0.8.x? grarpamp
2013-03-14  4:01 ` Gavin Andresen
2013-03-14  8:33   ` Michael Gronager
2013-03-16 22:04     ` grarpamp
2013-03-16 22:17       ` Peter Todd [this message]

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