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THESE ARE NOT REAL HEADLINES, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT!!

I've gathered up some headlines from various sources regarding the recent blockchain fork. Got any headlines? Add yours!

"Bitcoin Broken, Bug Bogs Blockchain!" -Bitcoin Informer

"Bitcoin Crash is Litecoin Cash" -Altcoin Watch

"Bitcoin Ills Bring Litecoin Shills" -Quack Alert

"Blockchain Stops While Bitcoin Drops" -MPOE Newswire

"Exchanges Paused While Devs Bash Banking Bugs" -De Central Banker

"Price Plummets Pending Programmer Patch" -Bitcoin Enquirer

"Bitcoin Cripple Good For Ripple" -ClosedCoin press wire

"Oversized Block Cock Blocks Blockchain" -Larry Flynt Tech Blog

"Gox Blocked By Botched Block" -The Foreign Exchange

"Premature Patch Precipitates Price Plunge" -Litecoincharts.com (http://bitcoincharts.com)

"Blockchain Woes Bring Bitcoin Lows" -SatoshiHedge.com (http://zerohedge.com)

"Dead Puppies Found, Devs Call Pound" -ASPCA Mailing List (http://aspca.org)

"Forked Chain Boggles Bitcoin Brains" -The Daily Developer

"Block Bloat Sinks Bitcoin Boat" -Hashwatch

"Chain Split Makes Lemmings Quit, Price Drops Like Its Hot" -High Times

"Blockchain Splits Force IRC Kicks" -gmaxwell (#bitcoin IRC)

"Ask Walls Fall As Clients Stall" -Bittrade Insider

"Buyers Get Deals As Blockchain Heals" -HYIP Monitor

"Price In Air During Blockchain Repair" -Bitcommunity

"Chain Fork Trims Pork: Price Sliced" -The Weekly Meat

"Blockchain Fork Borks Bitcoin Dorks" -Nerd World

"Mystery Miner Brings Price Chop With Attack Block, Dirty Deeds Do Coins Cheap" -Unidirectional Flow

"Double Spends As Blockchain Mend Ends" -Miner Times

"Devs Burn Candle: Bitcoin Scandal Handled" -Gnational Gnus

"Lack Of Locks Blasts Blocks; BDB Blamed" -Bater Dasing

"SatoshiDICE Plays Nice, Pulls Plug Pending Patch" -GamblingWorld

"Lack of Blockchain Quorum Knocks Out Forum" -The Post


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and the obligatory meme

https://i.imgur.com/56UEvF6.png

Thanks for the quick FUD but actually bitcoin price only dropped $48 to about $43 and is already up to $46.

LMFAOO

sensationalist much?

I don't make up the news I just report it!

Well that sucks. I was looking forward to sub-$40 prices for a while.

I lol'd

shoot the messenger DOES apply here, especially if you're knowingly spreading FUD

CRASHING BETWEEN 43 $ AND 46 $ RIGHT NOW

HOW TO GET MY COINS FROM WALLET INTO MTGOX?? WHY THE F%% DOESNT MTGOX LET ME GET MY COINS IN WALLET TO SELL TO USD???

I believe it's for your own good, any recent transaction may become lost/reversed once the 0.7 chain catches up. Though it sucks that you can't sell if now if you wanted to.

Agreed!
Seriously, wtf @misterbigg ... if you already choose to post this news, which is not a bad thing put it in perspective and try to be less of a sensationalist

What's even more funny than these headlines are the people that totally missed the point

I laughed.

Gotta say some of those headlines are pretty creative.

Cheap coins tomorrow! Figures this would happen the same day ol' Jonesy hypes up BTC on his show. Maybe this will keep the price up when all his listeners start buying BTC? haha

No one else has headlines?

Perhaps you didn't get the memo, but Bitcoin is broken right now. Bitcoins cannot be safely transferred on the blockchain.

"Bitcoin Focked by Bad Block" hehe

There's enough FUD-spam around without this. Thread locked.

Thread moved to Off-Topic, and unlocked. Continue the FUD here please.

What FUD? Only a fool could possibly take these headlines seriously...and me having to point out that they are fake really ruins it.

Seriously, the newbies here will believe anything they see, especially with a title like that.

Excellent headlines! All-time Best-of material, certainly!

Thanks, I was inspired

"Blockchain Splits Force IRC Kicks" -gmaxwell (#bitcoin IRC)

"Ask Wall Fall Follows Client Stall"

I like the dead puppy one, although I dont get it ;)

It's an inside developer joke which I must not reveal, but I can say that it has to do with a high volume of economically unspendable transactions.

New headlines:

"Hoarders Get Great Deals While Blockchain Heals" -HYIP Monitor

"Price In Air During Blockchain Repair" -Bitcommunity

Now that's awesome. But from what I'm reading, the bug was actually in 0.7. Version 0.8 just made it apparent.

"Chain Fork Trims Pork: Price Sliced" -The Weekly Meat

I guess if there was never another release after 0.7 then there wouldn't be a problem but the bug was in the 0.7 code not the 0.8 code.

I will just leave this here.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tc188/

Most probably not, it's a bug. The problem is that 0.8 created blocks that SHOULD have been okay, but apparently were not accepted by 0.7 on account of a bug. It was 0.7 that did not behave according to specification (because of a bug). I could be wrong though but that's my understanding.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These headlines are funny. But the block chain fork isn't. There was a serious problem and if it wasn't for the heroic efforts of the developers, miners, and business owners (Blockchain.info, SatoshiDICE, mtgox, et. al.) working together to identify the problem and fix it as expediently as possible, Bitcoin could have taken on permanent damage.

That was incredibly quick thinking and action.

The headlines? Yes, thank you  ;D  ;D

"Blockchain Fork Borks Bitcoin Dorks" -Nerd World

Mystery miner snaps up cheap coins using creative "attack block" - Speculation forum

-MarkM-

"Mystery Miner Brings Price Chop With Attack Block, Dirty Deeds Do Coins Cheap" -Unidirectional Flow

Now this is good stuff

Hackers attack self-healing blockchain currency in vain, banks eat hearts out - Occupy Wall Street

-MarkM-

"Devs Burn Candle: Bitcoin Scandal Handled" -Gnational Gnus

"Double Spends As Blockchain Mend Ends" -Miner Times

"Lack Of Locks Blasts Blocks; BDB Blamed" -Bater Dasing

"Words Minced By Headline Prince, Cues Clever Colloquy" -misterbigg

"Blockchain Spreads Legs, Nerds Have FUD With Their Private Keys" - 99 Solutions

"Bernanke Chuckles, as Blockchain Buckles" - The Fed Times

"The block that broke the camel's blockchain" - nevafuse

Someone please steal!

"Currency has bugs, Nerds can't buy drugs" - Crack lovers monthly

That is a great one!

Boy's BTC keeps girl off her knee.

great headlines.

"SatoshiDICE Plays Nice, Pulls Plug Pending Patch" -GamblingWorld


Ugh...there's a groaner right there lol


Haha now we know why you use Bitcoins!!!

"Blockchain split was a miner problem."
or
"Blockchain split was a minor problem."

haha

"Lack of Blockchain Quorum Knocks Out Forum" -The Post

"Blockchain from now on only a broken chain" - Computer information safety magazine

"Nerds gone bankrupt: Bitcoin cracked, virtual currency value crashed" - The Sunday