Sentences with phrase «via soft fork»
The move to develop the technology finds Purse pitching its implementation - one that is today an alternative to versions by Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited - as a third option in the scaling debate that would bring about a block size increase and malleability fix via soft fork, or a change that doesn't risk splitting the bitcoin blockchain.
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«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.»
In the past, some have criticized Bitcoin Core contributors» preference for implementing Segregated Witness via a soft fork due to the perceived complexity involved with the code involved in making these improvements.
Having said that, Bitcoin Core contributor and spokesperson Eric Lombrozo told Bitcoin Magazine that an increase via a soft fork is a possibility.
Increases via a soft fork, such as extension blocks, have been discussed in the past.
[12] This multi-layer architecture allows for easier updates via soft forks than Ethereum does; in Ethereum these two layers are intertwined.
Not exact matches
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).
Segregated Witness can be implemented more simply and cleaner via a hard fork, but Bitcoin Core has opted for a more complex soft fork.
Soft forks as implemented via BIP 9 can motivate users to react with their own hard fork, but the split chain is not the default (as it is with hard forks).
To date, new versions of the bitcoin software have been rolled out via voluntary soft forks.
In order to activate Lightning in the bitcoin ecosystem, SegWit had to be activated via a User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) which required more than 90 % of the network to agree on the protocol upgrade.