I actually downloaded the 1.3 wallet the day itself it released. But today when I tried to sync it showed "Not enough space". So even after downloading the correct version of wallet, I have been forced to delete the blockchain files and peers files. It's the reason why I asked about others, who don't know about this thread.
which pool were you mining? i was on a 'bad' pool, but didn't mine dogecoin today. the people most affected are the miners on the pools that didn't upgrade their shit.
pretty much everyone else won't be affected. i figure more people will lose their dogecoins from scammers that steal other users' wallet.dat files than anything to do with the fork.
same thing happened in march to bitcoin. look our doge is growing up so fast
What did this mean for regular users?
Nothing. Almost.
A regular user making a transaction during that time would broadcast his transaction to both ledgers and it would be included in both. Obviously one would be abandoned sooner or later, but that doesn't matter to the regular user because he broadcasted it to both and he would be fine with whatever was the outcome.
Also, no regular user needed to switch back... That was only for miners, because we wanted to concentrate all miners on one side in order to make one ledger longer than the other. For regular users this didn't matter at all, as all clients would accept the eventual resulting ledger.
As you can see, for a regular user, there should have been no problem and there was absolutely no risk of losing bitcoins. The only problem was the increased risk of receiving a double-spend transaction.
What's a double-spend?
This is the reason why some merchants and exchanges stopped processing incoming bitcoins for a couple of hours.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its_over_the_blockchain_fork_explained/