Sentences with phrase «soft forks caused»

In the past, soft forks caused some minimal network disruption, but the risks do seem limited this time around.

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in theory 51 % would be enough, that would cause a «soft fork» where the majority of the users keeps using the new version while the minority is using the old version.

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 siFork» (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 sifork (UASF)-- although the mining hardware producer has sent out mixed signals about the project since.

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.