You of all people would idolize Luke jr

no, i for one, will be more than happy to fork away from all those devs and you, esp LukeJr.

Thanks for posting that link. It was a great example of how to manufacture panic and raise trivial resource allocation problems into widespread abuse opportunities.

It is still interesting that despite years passing nearly nobody in the Bitcoin development circles has even a passing knowledge of operational issues with database management systems.

The problem could have been trivially fixed by creating two line text file and restarting the Bitcoin daemon. The patch could be issued later after more careful analysis.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/152208.0

The crowd around Mircea Popescu follows the same path years later:

http://qntra.net/2015/08/new-per-block-transaction-highs-wedge-some-nodes-patch-available/

just finished reading that.  Luke did have the right intuition right off the bat.  kudos to him.

interesting comment below:

"23:31    Eleuthria    I absolutely agree, there is no way the 0.8 chain can continue in this situation. An involuntary hardfork doesn't gain legitimacy due to majority. "

edit:  he's referring to the fact that Gox was on 0.7

I was mining on BTCguild back then, I was rather disappeared at that decision at the time but none the less developers may have stressed but in my mind it highlight how simply it was to implement a hard fork so long as the intent was honorable, also it makes the idea that one fork become an altcoin seem daft. Power players like Eleuthria knew exactly where their interests lay and voluntary gave up the advantage he had and his customer had to the benefit of the merchants who provide services to the community at large.

In a society (which is the opposite of a self-sufficient, paleolitic, pre-patriarchal, anarchic community), assets are always valued in debt (=money).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

When debt (money) disappeared, the society disappeared as well. That's 'life' since the neolithic revolution, the invention of the state (organized violence).

Crypto/Bitcoin is the best enemy of the society.
@Fonestar, a brilliant commentator of the articles on Zero Knowledge: "The Bitcoiners are going to totally destroy your society and your laws"

Uh no. No one needs to show more respect for LukeJr.

Who made him king? 

Gold collapsing. Bitcoin collapsing. It won't stop...

Evry movement have their own words...