Who can explain, what is hardfork?
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And what will happend with Bitcoin after it?
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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.