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Record 1 2019-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

[A fork in which] a change of rules ... creates blocks recognized as valid by the old software [and that] is backwards-compatible.

CONT

During Bitcoin's first two years, Satoshi Nakamoto performed several soft forks by just releasing the backwards-compatible change in a client that began immediately enforcing the new rule.

OBS

Forks can be both hard (i.e., not backwards compatible) and soft (i.e., backwards compatible), and can occur due to a change in consensus or a change in blockchain protocol (i.e., underlying code).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

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