OK, so 25 blocks got orphaned, that's 25 times 25 BTC = 625BTC (or approx $29K at the time of the event) that miners worked hard for, and did not get paid for.
The miners on 0.8 did not have to switch back to 0.7, but they did so anyways, "for the greater good".

Are we going to compensate them in any way?
(Of course not, there is a limit to our willingness to cooperate. But I though it should still be mentioned.)

Disclaimer, I am a (minor) miner, but I only mine a few bit cents per day and mostly on Eligius so if I lost anything, it is not much.

Gentlemen, you just watched finance in the 21st century.

*complete transparency
*community driven
*solution driven
*results

Bitcoin just gained a lot more confidence.

But the transaction fees are practically nothing, how will this validate the massive energy requirement need to validate a transaction? And dont transactions require more resources to validate as the blockchain grows longer?

Something funny going on with the pool's web site.  The charts and tables are all empty.