Is that a confession?

It was merely an unusually long reorg.

Not really. No amount of testing of 0.8 would have found a bug in 0.7 that nobody knew about and wasn't looking for.

My point was that exhaustive testing of 0.8 would never have revealed the bug in 0.7 that nobody knew about.

Unit testing to make sure the code was actually capable of operating at the protocol limits would have caught the problem had it been performed on 0.7

Probably has more important coding-related things to do right now.

Don't do anything. Just wait a few hours until the network gets sorted out again before attempting any transactions.

This might have helped:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56323.0

The problem is older than you think. 0.8 is fine (at least with regards to the current problem). 0.7 had a bug in it and consequently is not capable of handling what it's supposed to be able to handle.

The problem was with the old version of bitcoin. The mistake appears to have been not waiting for enough of the network to upgrade to the new version before enabling block sizes that were supposed to have been legal all this time.

And?

If you say you know what the problem is, and have the ability to correct it, why complain about it unless you're going to do something?

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

What's stopping your company from hiring one developer to do nothing but code cleanups and submitting them to GitHub? There's nothing centralized about that.

Sounds like some bot herder doesn't know how to read.

According to recent polling less than 25% of forum users want the size to remain at 1 MB. Given the amount of user growth we're likely to see this year even if every one of that 25% left they won't even be noticed.

Maybe once they see that higher transaction rates cause the exact opposite of what you predict they'll come back.

True, but it won't matter as long as you have your bitcoins instead of letting the exchange hold them.

It can be fun watching dinosaurs go extinct.

The next poll will be how many people upgrade to a new version that contains the change.

$186.62

I agree with bullioner about the definition of capital.

Financial assets are not capital. Factories, energy, skills, and abilities are capital. Financial assets have been used for a long time to control and direct capital but that does not mean they are capital. Financial assets produce nothing. People, machines, energy, skills, and knowledge produce everything.

My argument is that your primary focus should be building true capital: the ability to produce new wealth, and treat speculation as what it really is - gambling.