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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:07:40 -0500
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues
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On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:51 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell@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.