What is a fork? What is the difference between a client fork and a network fork? How do hard forks create new coins? What are examples of consensus forks? Does Bitcoin ever go down for maintenance? How does the community come to consensus, particularly regarding soft forks?
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A fork does not inflate supply of BTC, correct? If so, why do so many people say that BTC has no hard supply lmit because of forking?
Luke Dasher? Did you mean Luke Dash-jr?
They have forked and they have forked hard says he! haha.
What is a fork? Bcash is one example.
A lot there, but I'm starting to get it
Entire books will be written on forks.
You are teaching the next generation of authors.
Thank you Andreas!
Consensus rules! Something NO Govt anywhere in the world would EVER implement.
A future where consensus rules via economic incentives being aligned may be the only hope of dismantling corrupt oppressive govts that would require decades of future tech development to unfold. Many moving parts in play there.
Debate amongst yourselves.
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Thanks Andreas.
Wait, so if Bitcoin Core dev team upgraded BTC block size just as Bitcoin Cash did, BTC would then be a hard fork just like BCH? Which Fork would you then support because technically neither would be the original Bitcoin would it?