Congratulations on a successful 51% attack today everyone!

[WiW]

There was a fork but more than 50% of the hashing power put their work behind the shorter chain, even though merchants may (and have?) trusted the longer proof of work chain.

Technically, there was no malicious intent, and I'm sure nobody planned this in advance with a double spend in mind... I believe all the miners deserve a big congratulations!

[ItsDom]

I'm confused.... are you being sarcastic... or?

As you said, there's no malicious activity, so there's no 51% "attack"

The community came together to cover a bug.

[Gabi]

Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned  so dozens of time per month! lol

[mccorvic]

Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned   so dozens of time per month! lol

This was pretty much my first thought.

The OP might as well have said, "Guys, everything worked as it was supposed to! PANIC!"

[WiW]

Based on what you said, WiW, there is a 51% attack everytime a block is orphaned   so dozens of time per month! lol

The difference being that a block is usually orphaned because it came second to the miner (propagated the network slower) but wasn't shorter in terms of proof of work.

In this case they rejected a valid, longer proof of work chain in favor of making a shorter chain outpace the longer one with a majority of hashing power.