Forum Home
    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular

    Who can explain, what is hardfork?

    Newbies - New Members Must Start Here
    2
    2
    692
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • V
      Vlady Regular Member last edited by

      And what will happend with Bitcoin after it?

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
      • Wellenreiter
        Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

        It’s very simple,
        A hard fork is a change in the block or blockchain format, that requires a change of the wallet and sometimes of the miner software also.

        It’s called hard fork, because older clients can not process Blocks created after the fork.
        The danger is, that if a high number of clients and miners stay on the old software revision, there may be two branches of the blockchain, that can’t convert anymore.

        If comparison a soft fork is a change in the blockchain protocol, that does not have this risk.

        Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
        Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
        • First post
          Last post