Agree. I quite like Mark's proposal. Yes, formally it is hard fork. But the
step 4) can come very far in the future, when the penetration of <0.8
clients will be mininimal.

slush

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> wrote:

> This problem is very clearly a *bug* in the old codebase. So let's be
> forward thinking and do what we would do in any other situation: fix the
> bug, responsibly notify people and give them time to react, then move on.
> Let's not codify the bug in the protocol.
>