For this and other reasons, the Bitcoin Core development team
prefers soft forks over hard forks, which require a synchronized network - wide switch of all users.
Not exact matches
You can usually just mash it up with a
fork since avocados are so
soft, but you can puree it in the blender if you
prefer, too.
Wuille himself said in his talk that he had dismissed segregated witness as «non-viable» until recently, when it was revealed that it can be implemented as either a hard or
soft fork, and there is growing consensus in the community that a
soft fork is a
preferred path to a solution.
That's why we let our miners vote for their
preferred hard
fork and
soft fork at the same time, and give them an option to combine these votes.
Soft forks that do not degrade the security properties of Bitcoin, that do not take away from any currently used features, do not add costs to miners, and are preferred by some, would result in profit - maximizing miners choosing to serve a wider audience by enforcing the soft f
Soft forks that do not degrade the security properties of Bitcoin, that do not take away from any currently used features, do not add costs to miners, and are
preferred by some, would result in profit - maximizing miners choosing to serve a wider audience by enforcing the
soft f
soft fork.
Rather than a Segregated Witness
soft fork, Bitcoin Classic
prefers to deploy a «cleaner» hard
fork in order to increase the block size limit to 2 megabytes.
The Hong Kong developers, therefore,
prefer a «
soft - hardfork,» also known as a «forced
soft fork» or a «firm
fork,» and sometimes referred to as an «evil
soft fork.»
The most notable difference between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Classic is that the former
prefers a
soft -
fork increase in block size through Segregated Witness.
Where Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin Unlimited all attempt to increase Bitcoin's block size limit with a hard
fork, and Bitcoin Core developers
prefer a Segregated Witness
soft fork (SegWit), Purse CEO Andrew Lee announced a third approach: extension blocks.
Rather than a Segregated Witness
soft fork, Bitcoin Classic
prefers to deploy a «cleaner» hard
fork in order to increase the block - size limit to 2 megabytes.
By addressing this solution as a «
soft fork», Bitcoin developers hope to sway the mind of community members into making this the
preferred solution.
Hard
forks and
soft forks do virtually the same thing, so Bitcoin Core argues that
soft forks are to be
preferred as they do not cause the amount of harm on the Bitcoin network as a hard
fork can potentially do since users can choose to upgrade to new features when they want to, or remain or the current Bitcoin core version that they are on.
The lack of useful tools for estimating support for hard
forks is one of the reasons
soft forks are
preferred by the current crop of Bitcoin Core contributors.