📅 Original date posted:2011-09-14
🗒️ Summary of this message: Upgrading Bitcoin periodically is necessary for network health and user security. However, backward-compatibility is valuable, and even 2-year-old clients still work.
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:51 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> General network health and user security _requires_ periodic upgrades
> in any case, and will for the foreseeable future. The whole notion
> that old versions will _stop working_ would be a pretty good thing at
> this point in bitcoin's existence, judging by the high number of pre-
> .24 listeners still reported.
Backward-compatibility is valuable. I believe version 0.1 will still
more or less work on the current network. This is a real selling point
for Bitcoin: the code is solid enough that even 2-year-old clients are
still working.
theymos [ARCHIVE] /
npub10v…mper0
2023-06-07 02:25:53
in reply to nevent1q…zuem
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