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On this episode of “Bitcoin, Defined,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost talk about a latest weblog submit by Jameson Lopp titled, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked?”
Arduous forks are usually outlined as Bitcoin protocol upgrades that take away or loosen guidelines, making a lot of these upgrades backwards-incompatible. Van Wirdum and Provoost clarify, nevertheless, that in his weblog submit, Lopp argues that this definition isn’t very exact and means that the time period ought to solely apply if the rule change was truly utilized. As well as, arduous forks could be categorized into specific arduous forks, the place the rule change was an intentional arduous fork, and implicit arduous forks, the place the rule change wasn’t initially meant to be a tough fork in any respect however turned out to be one anyway.
Within the second half of the podcast, van Wirdum and Provoost break down the seven arduous forks in Bitcoin’s historical past that Lopp was capable of finding and talk about, 5 of which had been by no means utilized (and will due to this fact arguably not be thought-about arduous forks in any respect), considered one of them was specific and one other one was implicit.
To finish the episode, van Wirdum and Provoost briefly talk about the “arduous fork want listing” of future arduous fork(s) that want(s) to occur with a view to repair a time worth bug, and what sort of philosophy round deploying arduous forks would possibly make sense for Bitcoin with regard to including further points to a essential change within the code.
