Spork, Multi-Phased Fork
This definition comes from the technical glossary.
Definition
A spork is a mechanism unique to Dash used to safely deploy new features to the network through network-level variables to avoid the risk of unintended network forking during upgrades.
Synonyms
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Spork
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Multi-Phased fork
Not To Be Confused With
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Fork (a regular fork where all nodes follow the same consensus rules, so the fork is resolved once one chain has more proof of work than another)
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Hard fork (a permanent divergence in the block chain caused by non-upgraded nodes not following new consensus rules)
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Software fork (when one or more developers permanently develops a codebase separately from other developers)
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Git fork (when one or more developers temporarily develops a codebase separately from other developers
Links
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Spork message — Developer Reference
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Multi-Phased Fork (Spork) — Dash Wiki
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Understanding Sporks — Dash Wiki