So what happened?

[Warry]

I'm reading all these things about a glitch etcetera, but no topic really tells me what happened. I guess there is some topic about it but I must be overlooking it.. could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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[redbeans2012]

See the alert at the top of this page.

[juggalodarkclow]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152030.0

it's also the first sticky under the bitcoin discussion

[Stephen Gornick]

I'm reading all these things about a glitch etcetera, but no topic really tells me what happened. I guess there is some topic about it but I must be overlooking it.. could someone point me in the right direction?

Executive Overview:
 - http://bitcoin.org/chainfork.html

then:

Understanding why the call to rollback to v0.7 was made.
 - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152282.0

[Ekaros]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152282.msg1617990#msg1617990

Best explanation I have found for non developer.

This might be wrong, but my understanding is that the some pre-0.8 clients database implementation couldn't handle large number of transactions from multiple addresses. So some clients can't handle blocks where there is transactions coming from very many addresses.