Both soft and hard consensus forks can be used to make complex changes to bitcoin;
soft forks merely require a lower amount of consensus.
Not exact matches
Cryptocurrency
forks are
merely protocol upgrades, and there are two types of blockchain
forks that bitcoin enthusiasts refer to: a
soft fork and a hard
fork.
But in its later announcement, Bitmain emphasized that the user - activated hard
fork (UAHF) was
merely a contingency plan for user - activated
soft fork (UASF).