It's a mechanism where the activation time
of a soft fork occurs on a specified date enforced by full nodes, a concept sometimes referred to as the economic majority.
Not exact matches
The timeline for that support will be driven by the activation
of the required
soft fork,» Pair said, «but we don't know exactly when the activation will
occur, so we don't want to spend time now only to have it take another six months or a year before activation happens.»
We have been working tirelessly in preparation for any events that may
occur on August 1, 2017, and will support any type
of fork —
soft, hard, crooked or straight!
At the time
of bitcoin's
soft fork, Bitstamp stated that customers «who wanted their BCH funds immediately» should «withdraw their BTC before the hard
fork occurred.»