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Soft Fork vs. Hard Fork

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A good question asked by OratesFratres and a very good repply by asaltandbuttering on r/bitcoinforum


--- Quote ---Could someone explain to me what these even mean? I'm still new to this, it's just that I'm still learning the terminology.

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--- Quote ---Hard fork creates a new network which folks must update their software to join. Soft forks do not create a new network.
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I'm always for the hardfork.
Significant improvements can be done. People just have to adapt. And they will if money is involved

Very interesting topic.

Thank you for the explanation!

Hard forks is a permanent divergence in the the block chain, commonly occurs when non-upgraded nodes can’t validate blocks created by upgraded nodes that follow newer consensus rules. While Soft forks is a temporary divergence in the block chain caused by non-upgraded nodes not following new consensus rules


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