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On this episode of “Bitcoin, Defined,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost talk about a current weblog publish by Jameson Lopp titled, “Has Bitcoin Ever Hard Forked?”
Arduous forks are typically outlined as Bitcoin protocol upgrades that take away or loosen guidelines, making these kind of upgrades backwards-incompatible. Van Wirdum and Provoost clarify, nevertheless, that in his weblog publish, Lopp argues that this definition isn’t very exact and means that the time period ought to solely apply if the rule change was really utilized. As well as, arduous forks will be categorized into express 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 may due to this fact arguably not be thought-about arduous forks in any respect), one among them was express and one other one was implicit.
To finish the episode, van Wirdum and Provoost briefly talk about the “arduous fork want checklist” of future arduous fork(s) that want(s) to occur with the intention to repair a time worth bug, and what sort of philosophy round deploying arduous forks would possibly make sense for Bitcoin with reference to including extra elements to a obligatory change within the code.