I suggest everybody willing to read a thriller take a look at the chat log in Bitcoin-dev while the chain fork was taking please and a miners and developers tried hard to agree on what to do. Every line is chilling...
Read it at
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2013/03/12Have fun! Best regards, Sergio.
What time was the network alert broadcast?
I see a few questions like "anyone know how to contact [specific top 10 exchange]", "how to contact [specific top 10 pool]".
A significant blockchain fork was an eventuality but it was alarming to see how non-automated communications were such a crucial component to getting a resolution, and how those communications are so inefficient due to timezones (middle of the night in Europe), language differences, differences in market impact (the top exchanges and merchants got contacted, the smaller ones didn't), etc.
There is a lot that needs to be learned from this incident.
