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May 03, 2013, 07:57:40 PM

News: All users of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind versions 0.7.2 and earlier are required to upgrade to 0.8.1 or apply a manual workaround by May 15. More info.


what will happen to users that don't upgrade  Huh
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you are likely to be left behind and will be out of sync with the rest of the Bitcoin network.

what the F?

Basically this is just early warning that the same fork that happened in March will happen again if you don't update.   Only difference this time is that the old version fork will be the one abandoned, hence you will be left behind if you don't upgrade or do the work around.   It is just a block size limit increase.  This is not an update of the 1MB hard limit, it is a lifting of the soft limit, which I think is currently 250KB.

does that mean they won't be able to spend their coins?

more lost coins?

They'll still have their wallet.dat. Even if they send their coins to an address not recognized by the new fork, the network won't confirm it when they do upgrade.