In
case of a soft fork the new rules would be more strict and the nodes would therefore allow this automatically.
That means a group 5 times smaller will be left behind in
case of a soft fork.
In
the case of a soft fork, old nodes on the network will still recognise the new blocks as valid.
This begs the question: What will major crypto exchanges do in
the case of a soft fork?
Not exact matches
The most well - received talk
of the day was given by Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille, in which the developer made the
case that the block size could be increased with only a
soft fork to the network, should changes be made to how transaction signatures are handled.
Bitcoin Cash is the realization
of the «User Activated Hard
Fork» (UAHF) that was first announced as Bitmain's contingency plan in case of a chain - split caused by the BIP148 user activated soft fork (UASF)-- although the mining hardware producer has sent out mixed signals about the project si
Fork» (UAHF) that was first announced as Bitmain's contingency plan in
case of a chain - split caused by the BIP148 user activated
soft fork (UASF)-- although the mining hardware producer has sent out mixed signals about the project si
fork (UASF)-- although the mining hardware producer has sent out mixed signals about the project since.
Bitcoin Core brings a strong
case by suggesting
soft forks be used the majority
of the time, and hard
forks to only be used when a proposed implementation is universally accepted.