Sentences with phrase «while soft forks»

While soft forks can only add or tighten rules, they can be cleverly used to extend Bitcoin's capabilities.

While soft forks are seen as less disruptive in that they're backwards - compatible, they can still be controversial when used to initiate changes not all cryptocurrency users agree with.

While this soft fork comes as a boon to the Ethereum Community, as this intervention is certainly better than letting The DAO (and possibly Ethereum, by extension) crash and burn, It continues to be contentious in the wider Crypto community.

Not exact matches

While the rice cooks peel the sweet potato and cut it into chunks, place these in a steamer and allow it to steam for about thirty minutes — until it's really soft and easy to mash with a fork.

While the dough is in the fridge prepare the filling, in a medium pot add butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and diced apples, mix together and cook on low to medium heat for 5 minutes, cover and cook for another 5 minutes, stir the mixture occasionally and watch that it doesn't burn (at this point gently squish with a fork, but do not make a cream, leave diced apples almost whole), if apples are not soft continue to cook for another 5 minutes on low uncovered.

While the crust is baking, you whip up the lemon filling in a food processor, pour it into the hot crust, and a short twenty - five minutes later pull out these perfect little lemony bites with a soft coconut fragrance and use all of your willpower not to dig in right then with a fork!

in theory 51 % would be enough, that would cause a «soft fork» where the majority of the users keeps using the new version while the minority is using the old version.

The most notable difference between Bitcoin Core and its recently launched competitor Bitcoin Classic is that the former plans to roll out Segregated Witness through a soft fork, while the latter wants to deploy a block - size increase through a hard fork, meaning all full nodes on the network need to switch.

While Litecoin inventor Charlie Lee has been advocating for activation of the soft fork since late 2016, miner support initially did not follow.

An interesting property of soft forks is that some users can upgrade to the new set of rules, while other users do not, or at least, not yet.

While most developers agree a hard fork would be a cleaner solution, this does not necessarily mean a Segregated Witness soft fork is unsafe.

While obvious topics, such as mining decentralization and progress for hard and soft forks, were discussed over the past few days, the participants in the gathering also had an open discussion with Professor Dan Boneh at Stanford and answered questions from Google employees at their campus.

While Bitmain has now thrown its support behind the SegWit2x proposal, some Bitcoin Core contributors have drawn a line in the sand with their support of BIP 148, which is an attempted user - activated soft fork of Segregated Witness (SegWit).

Because it completely restructures the system to try to speed things up, it likely wouldn't get enough support for a soft or hard fork, and as such a velvet fork where some get to opt in while staying in consensus with those that don't could be the only way.

«While [the paper is] short on the details, the overall idea of adding new functionality without incurring the risks and complication of either a soft or a hard fork is quite compelling,» Sirer told CoinDesk.

While old nodes don't know how coins on soft - forked anyonecanspend addresses can be spent, with extension blocks, old nodes don't even know where coins are.

Soft forks scale the network efficiently with lower risks but take their time to work throughout the system, while hard forks potentially may have more severe consequences but would immediately adjust the block size to a fixed capacity.