Here’s Why a Hard Fork Can’t Work

Here’s Why a Hard Fork Can’t Work

“It’s not about the economics,” says Alex Petrov of bitcoin cloud miner, Bitfury, in riposte to comments by Bitcoiner Roger Ver on changes to the bitcoin protocol. “You can have a different economical opinion or you can have a different economical theory, but it’s all about the software. This soft-fork and hard-fork. It’s the only way you are trying to offer the new solution for the whole community. In a soft-fork, it’s a restriction on allowed behavior. And then if people agree, they can activate the feature. If you are creating a hard-fork, it’s more complex. You are updating the....


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