Round of Applause - Crisis Management

[eleuthria]

It's not everyday we see sanity in these forums.  During the hard fork crisis, most pool threads were kept very clean.  We did not see a mass panic that bumped off the important announcements or vital information being posted by pool operators.

We also saw many miners actively look for pools that were either moving back to 0.7, or ones that had never made the switch to 0.8 at all.  It felt great to see miners taking this matter into their own hands, and showing that even though pools are centralized, miners will still take responsibility and seek out a different pool during a crisis where they aren't sure what their own pool's status is.

Thank you all for keeping your cool (as much as possible) during this eventful day.



EDIT:

I didn't include this in the original post because at the time I was mostly referring specifically to this subforum.  But another round of applause to the developers.  While it was immediately clear what the reaction to this event should be (especially with a super-majority on the forked chain), the #bitcoin-dev channel was quick to come to a concensus about what the proper action should be.

[Akka]

+1 Kudos too all that where involved for this fast and smooth handling.

It's great to see how quick and good you guys can work together if needed.

[2weiX]

+1

[DrG]

Agreed, good job to all the pool ops for managing the crysis.

This proves that mining is still in it's infancy - you can have these shiny new little ASICs mining away in the corner and if you don't pay attention fork happens   

WHAT THE FORK! 

[drawingthesun]

+1

[Parazyd]

Applause for the whole forum.

This was handled awesomely.

[ineededausername]

Applause for the whole forum.

This was handled awesomely.

Except for the speculation forum

[-ck]

Applause for the whole forum.

This was handled awesomely.

Except for the speculation forum

The alt cryptocurrency subforum didn't seem to do so well either. They seemed to be very happy about it, not realising the irony that the purpose for alt cryptocurrencies were to push development ideas, yet it was their stagnancy on old bitcoin code that protected them from such a problem. Go figure.

[K1773R]

Applause for the whole forum.

This was handled awesomely.

Except for the speculation forum

The alt cryptocurrency subforum didn't seem to do so well either. They seemed to be very happy about it, not realising the irony that the purpose for alt cryptocurrencies were to push development ideas, yet it was their stagnancy on old bitcoin code that protected them from such a problem. Go figure.

i like altcoins myself too, but thats just silly...

[Graet]

It's not everyday we see sanity in these forums.  During the hard fork crisis, most pool threads were kept very clean.  We did not see a mass panic that bumped off the important announcements or vital information being posted by pool operators.

We also saw many miners actively look for pools that were either moving back to 0.7, or ones that had never made the switch to 0.8 at all.  It felt great to see miners taking this matter into their own hands, and showing that even though pools are centralized, miners will still take responsibility and seek out a different pool during a crisis where they aren't sure what their own pool's status is.

Thank you all for keeping your cool (as much as possible) during this eventful day.



EDIT:

I didn't include this in the original post because at the time I was mostly referring specifically to this subforum.  But another round of applause to the developers.  While it was immediately clear what the reaction to this event should be (especially with a super-majority on the forked chain), the #bitcoin-dev channel was quick to come to a concensus about what the proper action should be.

+1

[Isokivi]

+1
The mining community seems to be maturing.

[slush]

I think today's issue approved that we're able to fix problems when it is really necessary. That's definitely a good sign for Bitcoin project.

[Frequency]

I think today's issue approved that we're able to fix problems when it is really necessary. That's definitely a good sign for Bitcoin project.

+1

[philips]

Watched the events unfolding on #bitcoin-dev channel.
It was like NASA control center in there