If the Segregated Witness
soft fork does activate, the LND alpha software could immediately be tested on Bitcoin's main net.
As illustrated, implementing
a soft fork does not require an update of nodes and thus allows all current nodes to stay functional.
And from a user perspective, To the Moon would leave old nodes in the dark more than most
soft forks do.
«Soft forks don't actually change the rules; they just are more creative about how they use the rules,» Vorick explained.
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.
Not exact matches
Or we can
do something in the middle, which is a
soft fork that prevents anyone from ever using that stolen Ether.
Second, even if a significant majority of the economy
does enforce the
soft fork, a determined (or perhaps very lazy) majority of miners can still frustrate the upgrade.
Or are we going to be more conservative and
do the on chain killing with a
soft fork.
Some of them believe that a «
soft fork» (a software update that
does not involve the creation of a new coin) is the answer; others believe that second - layer solutions, including the Lightning Network, is the way to go.
I
did the vegan chia version of the crust and it stayed pretty
soft, a little difficult to eat without a
fork.
I poked a few holes in each potato using a
fork, rubbed each lightly with oil and a smidgen of salt, then baked at 425 degrees until
done (you know they're
done when the skin pulls away slightly from the potato; the inside should feel
soft and have some give to it).
This will be
done when the peppers are
soft - if you picked them up with a
fork they would droop over the sides.
All you have to
do is to heat a lug of olive oil over medium - high heat and grill the whole corn cob for 15 minutes, lid closed, turning every 5 minutes, until the cob has black burn marks here and there and the kernels are
soft (you can check it by piercing the cob 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.
It's
done when the squash is
soft and you can scrape out the inside with a
fork, forming spaghetti - like strands.
The brinjals are
done when they are
soft and can be easily poked with a
fork.
All you have to
do is to heat a lug of olive oil over medium - high heat and grill the whole corn cob for 15 minutes, lid closed, turning every 5 minutes, until the cob has black burn marks here and there and the kernels are
soft (you can check it by piercing the cob with a
fork).
This one is for the dudes who don't like overwhelming graphics and will gladly
fork up the cash for the
softest hoodie out there.
[12] This multi-layer architecture allows for easier updates via
soft forks than Ethereum
does; in Ethereum these two layers are intertwined.
«I think we should
do the Segregated Witness
soft fork first,» Voisine said.
In the past,
soft forks caused some minimal network disruption, but the risks
do seem limited this time around.
Palatinus himself
does hope the Segregated Witness
soft fork will activate.
Some of them — including Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr — were contemplating activating the
soft fork regardless of what the rest of the Bitcoin ecosystem would
do.
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.»
While Litecoin inventor Charlie Lee has been advocating for activation of the
soft fork since late 2016, miner support initially
did not follow.
Moreover, the solution can be rolled out as a
soft fork, meaning that only miners need to upgrade their software; all other nodes can
do so if and when they please.
That means that implementing the system on the bitcoin network would require a
soft fork to add new codes to the script, just as other proposals such as SegWit would
do.
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.
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.
«I'd be surprised if Raiden didn't implement this proposal: they won't have to deal with backwards compatibility issues [compared to bitcoin], so it's more likely they'll be able to
do it because there's no
soft fork requirement.»
«SegWit as a
soft fork is about as safe as the CSV
soft fork was — and you don't hear anyone complain about that.»
«I think Bitcoin Core is making the right trade - off to
do SegWit as a
soft fork,» Lee said.
«What is proposed is a
soft -
fork that increases bitcoin's scalability and capacity by reorganizing data in blocks to handle the signatures separately, and in
doing so takes them outside the scope of the current block size limit,» Blockstream's Greg Maxwell wrote last December.
* A newly discovered vulnerability suggests that
soft forking may not be an option after all, and the only choice left is that between
doing nothing and hard
forking.
Now that we have a
soft fork way to
do it, it's almost like a no - brainer.»
Also beneficial, developers argued, was that it could be introduced via a mechanism called a
soft fork (meaning that miners who adopted it could co-exist on the network with those that
did not).
«The Bitcoin Core team believes
doing a hard
fork at the present time is needlessly risky, and is instead pursuing SegWit via a
soft fork for a similar sized potential gain in throughput.»
Since drivechains
do need a
soft -
fork protocol upgrade, the contention
does make the future of drivechains a bit more uncertain.
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.
Soft forks are backwards - compatible changes that don't require all nodes to upgrade.
We also
do not support banning the
soft fork nor
do we believe we should ban the hard
fork proposed by the Classic project.
How
do soft forks work and what
do they make possible?
If Confidential Transactions
does become part of the Bitcoin protocol — either through Segregated Witness or as an independent
soft or hard
fork — not much stands in the way of ValueShuffle.
«Old nodes» — as we'll call them for now — will consider a
soft -
forked chain valid because it doesn't break any «old rules.»
This makes
soft forks backward compatible: nodes that
did not upgrade should remain part of the same Bitcoin network.
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.
Once a majority of hash power
does follow these financial incentives and enforces the new rules, the rest of the Bitcoin ecosystem should automatically follow, just like with any other
soft fork.
But if you are a miner and BIP91
does activate, you now have another day or two to comply with the BIP91
soft fork.
If over 5 percent of miners refuse to run the
soft fork, then the network doesn't activate the proposal and nothing changes.