Indeed, as Segregated Witness (SegWit) is slow to activate on Bitcoin, several altcoins are taking a stab at implementing and activating
the soft fork first.
«I think we should do the Segregated Witness
soft fork first,» Voisine said.
Not exact matches
Let's
first start with what a
soft fork actually entails.
Love should be the
first thing that one tastes when they twirl a
fork into a bowl of pasta slathered with a rich sauce, or spoon up
soft, creamy polenta topped with savory braised beef...
The
first risk applies to all
soft forks, and depends on miners actually enforcing the new rules.
The release deploys the
first soft fork on the Bitcoin network to use the methodology...
The
first solution came in mid-August with a SegWit
soft fork.
Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 was also the
first time the group of contributors behind the project used BIP 9 (Version Bits) to deploy a
soft fork.
This maintenance update includes the
first soft fork deployment utilising «version bits» as part of the capacity increasesroadmap.
One of the interesting attributes of Segregated Witness, as
first presented at the Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Hong Kong, is that it can be rolled out as a
soft fork.
«It can be rolled out with a backward compatible
soft fork, which would be even easier if Segregated Witness is activated
first.
Lombrozo explained that at the very
first stage, a BIP idea is submitted to the mailing list, where the author, developers and Bitcoin technical community members briefly discuss the
soft fork and assign it a BIP number.
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.
First, let's remind ourselves of the difference between «
soft» and «hard»
forks.
The developers suggest using this time to
first implement a
soft fork, which would not reverse any transactions or return the funds but prevent the stolen tokens to be withdrawn past the 27 - day window.
Let's
first understand the fundamental difference between a
soft fork and a hard
fork before we go into any of them.
According to the white paper, «The TON Foundation will have a majority of votes during the
first deployment phase of the TON Blockchain, which may be useful if a lot of parameters end up needing to be adjusted, or if the need arises for hard or
soft forks.»
First proposed as a
soft fork back in 2015 and implemented in the Bitcoin Core software client by late 2016, the upgrade initially faced an
published in the
first week of 2017, Lee explained that this potential to create these kinds of «bridges» between cryptocurrencies made him throw his weight behind the Segregated Witness (SegWit)
soft forks on both Litecoin and Bitcoin.
In a Medium post published in the
first week of 2017, Lee explained that this potential to create these kinds of «bridges» between cryptocurrencies made him throw his weight behind the Segregated Witness (SegWit)
soft forks on both Litecoin and Bitcoin.
Antpool, the biggest mining pool in the Bitcoin ecosystem with over 14 % of the global hashrate, has mined its
first SegWit2x block today, signaling approval for the ambitious scaling agreement that seeks to implement the SegWit
soft fork and a subsequent hard
fork to increase block size capacity to 2 MB.
The
first game was the user - activated
soft fork (UASF).
In spite of attracting wide adoption when it
first launched back in August last year, it appears that Bitcoin Cash still lags behind Bitcoin's SegWit
soft fork when it comes to overall transactions processed.