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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 8 months ago

Why are hardforks so much worse than softforks?

As I understand it, a softfork is a tightening of consensus rules, while a hardfork is a loosening of those rules. Now, if we do a softfork and 10% don't follow the softfork, haven't those 10% effectively done a hardfork relative to the other...

by COINS NEWS - 8 months ago

Why aren’t hard forks as common anymore?

In the early days of crypto, I was happily surprised when I received my first lump sum of “free money” in the form of BCH when Bitcoin did a hard fork. It seemed like several other projects also went through something similar when friends of mine ke...

by COINS NEWS - 10 months ago

Blackrock Trying to Control Crypto Forks

So Blackrock's ETF says that if you invest with them, and a crypto forks, they decide which fork is valid. They also don't guarantee to go with the same fork that everyone in crypto is going with. Given that they have trillions of dollars wor...