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Soft Fork Definition #1431

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laudaa opened this Issue Dec 9, 2016 · 2 comments

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laudaa commented Dec 9, 2016 • edited

The soft fork definition, as found here:

A temporary fork in the block chain which commonly occurs when miners using non-upgraded nodes violate a new consensus rule their nodes don’t know about.

Seems quite different from what we can find on the Wiki:

A softfork is a change to the bitcoin protocol wherein only previously valid blocks/transactions are made invalid. Since old nodes will recognise the new blocks as valid, a softfork is backward-compatible. This kind of fork requires only a majority of the miners upgrading to enforce the new rules.

Should be a trivial change in this file.
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theymos commented Dec 9, 2016

Yeah, that's totally wrong. The wiki text seems pretty perfect to me.

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New softfork description 
As suggested in #1431
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New softfork description #1436

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Mirobit commented Dec 14, 2016

Addressed in #1436

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