I'm upgrading as i hardly do small transactions.

Can I have this thread moved to Bitcoin Discussion? I feel that by me placing it under Off-Topic it will very likely be ignored and not receive sufficient votes to make the poll a worthy source of info.

0.8.2 is the latest version, How can you use 0.8.3 O.o

Since this thread is short ill add this in plain text.(for everyone saying No or Maybe or Yes and not understanding)

(simplified!!)This update prevents people from sending amounts that would cost you more BTC to send, then you just received.

A transaction doesnt just link to a number, it links to each source transaction. so sending BTC from many many tiny transactions will make the fee so high that your spending more to send it then you have.

Simplified example.

You receive  1$ in 1 penny transactions. the fee to send it is 1.25$ because of the size of the data included to make that transaction. if you had received 1$ in a 1$ transaction the fee to send that 1$ would have been 1 penny.

This update prevents you from losing money for work on random sites. But and i want to highly stress this. you shouldnt send(or want to receive) amounts near that amount anyway. since most of it will be lost via a transaction fee!

You are not a miner so this is not relevant. No worries. 


Consider the 0.8.2 dust tx change this way: The MAF sensor on your car might have some fancy security torx bit holding it on. The only reason it has this and not a normal philips screw or hex head is that the carmaker had some deal with Torx so that Torx could sell more proprietary bits. It was unnecessarily complicated and required a special tool.
Gavin took the car and replaced the fancy torx bit with a normal hex head. So now (to mix metaphors) instead of reconfiguring and recompiling the code, something many miners would have no idea how to do (Since they don't own a fancy torx bit) they can just stick the standard hex wrench into their .conf file and choose which size tx to accept.

Now, we can argue all we want about the default being set to a certain value, but the increased configurability is not as  controversial seeing as it already kind of existed... it was just a little obscure.