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# This file is licensed under the MIT License (MIT) available on
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# http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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#-------------40 characters-------------#
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title_max_40_characters_no_formatting: Soft Fork, Soft-Forking Change
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summary_max_255_characters_no_formatting: >
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A softfork is a change to the bitcoin protocol
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wherein only previously valid blocks/transactions
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are made invalid. Since old nodes will recognise
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the new blocks as valid, a softfork is backward-compatible.
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synonyms_shown_in_glossary_capitalize_first_letter:
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- Soft fork
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optional:
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synonyms_and_pluralizations_not_shown_in_glossary:
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- soft forks
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- soft-forking change
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- soft-forking
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not_to_be_confused_with_capitalize_first_letter:
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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
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links_html_or_markdown_style_capitalize_first_letter:
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- "[Soft fork](/en/developer-guide#term-soft-fork) --- Bitcoin.org Developer Guide"
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- "[Soft fork](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Softfork) --- Bitcoin Wiki"
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- "[What is a soft fork?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/30817) --- Bitcoin StackExchange"
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