2025-1-28 13:46 |
At some point, every cryptocurrency needs to go through major changes that shake up the way it works. That’s where hard forks and soft forks come in. These are updates to the protocol that make significant adjustments to how the… origin »
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in recent months, you will have come across a lot of debate about ‘forks’.
2019-1-23 12:59 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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ForkMonitor. info, a website that tracks forks of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash launched with sponsorship from BitMEX Research. The website is connected to several nodes on both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash implementations, providing a wide array of information about the forks in the blockchains.
2018-11-6 17:59 | |
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BitMEX just launched a website to make it easier to keep tabs on hard and soft forks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a recent blog post, the research arm of BitMEX is sponsoring a new website, ForkMonitor.
2018-11-6 23:18 | |
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Bitcoin SegWit Challenges Bitcoin Cash Both soft and hard forks have always presented an interesting conceptual and practical issue on the blockchain. Bitcoin’s blockchain creates forks in its overall chain when the community decides that a certain idea or issue is simply too important to continue along the same path. When some people felt as […]
2018-10-19 02:33 | |
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For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.
2018-9-22 21:22 | |
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Recent research suggests that there needs to be coordination between leading providers of cryptocurrency infrastructure products to protect against disruption caused by hard and soft forks. However, previous incidents of network upgrades have only strengthened bitcoin and efforts to govern the protocol raise questions over potential centralization.
2018-9-12 22:00 | |
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Зачастую многие не понимают, что такое разделение цепочки и какие меры можно предпринять в такой ситуаций. Недавнее предложение Shaolinfry, посвящённое User Activated Soft Forks (софт-форкам, которые активируются пользователями), привлекло немало внимания.
2018-7-8 17:59 | |
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Ethereum’s vision appears to be so messy that it leaves EVM changes in limbo, says a former Ethereum Foundation engineer. Frustrated by the lack of direction and stalled progress in Ethereum’s development, a former Solidity expert and compiler engineer claims…
Ethereum is launching the Hoodi testnet, with Pectra set to go live on the mainnet more than 30 days after Hoodi successfully forks. Ethereum’s Pectra deployment is looming, currently slated for the mainnet deployment for late April. In the run-up…
Binance-backed BNB Smart Chain is set to undergo the Pascal hard fork, bringing key features from Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade. BNB Smart Chain, the smart contract platform within the BNB Chain ecosystem, is prepping for a major update that borrows features…
Cardano is taking a major step toward decentralized governance with the activation of the Plomin hard fork. This upgrade gives Cardano (ADA) holders direct voting power over key blockchain decisions, including protocol changes, treasury management, and governance proposals. The Plomin…
Optimism (OP) surged after Binance announced upgrade and hard fork support Optimism (OP) price rose by more than 5% on Dec. 27, breaking to intraday highs of $1. 89. The gains for the native token of the layer-2 blockchain network came as the community reacted to positive news.
Ethereum has launched the “short-lived” Mekong testnet to test key upgrades for the upcoming Pectra fork. The Ethereum ecosystem is taking another step toward the Pectra fork with the launch of the Mekong testnet, a short-lived environment designed to test…