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Tag: soft fork
What Is a Hard Fork in the Crypto Economy?
Category: Altcoins, Bitcoin, Cryptocyclopedia, Ethereum, News, Tech
Hard forks have become a major topic in the cryptocurrency space in the past six to twelve months. After Bitcoin Cash (BCH) forked from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, a wave of bitcoin forks hit the community and with it came substantial controversy surrounding the legitimacy of these forks. The Types of Forks In simple terms, a hard fork…
Could a User-Activated Soft Fork Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Challenge?
Category: Bitcoin, Blockchain, News, Tech
How to address Bitcoin’s scalability issue has turned into a heated discussion in the Bitcoin community and no agreement has yet been reached. As it stands, it looks like no agreement will be achieved anytime soon, which is threatening bitcoin’s use as a payment network as the number of unconfirmed transactions is increasing, and micropayments are becoming increasingly difficult to…
