Agree. I quite like Mark&#39;s proposal. Yes, formally it is hard fork. But the step 4) can come very far in the future, when the penetration of &lt;0.8 clients will be mininimal.<div><br></div><div>slush<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mark Friedenbach <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mark@monetize.io" target="_blank">mark@monetize.io</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div>This problem is very clearly a *bug* in the old codebase. So let&#39;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&#39;s not codify the bug in the protocol.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>

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