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In Soft Forks vs. Hard Forks, we say the following about soft forks:
They only tighten or add rules to the existing protocol
This misleads the reader to think that a soft fork can not have inflationary (relaxing) effect on the protocol, which it can (e.g. segwit).
I propose adopting a more complete definition of a soft fork along these lines:
Changes to the protocol introduced by a soft fork are designed to prevent old nodes from being able to detect them. Once miners adopt a new soft fork, it is accepted by validating nodes by default. Rejection requires organized mobilization by validation node operators.
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In Soft Forks vs. Hard Forks, we say the following about soft forks:
This misleads the reader to think that a soft fork can not have inflationary (relaxing) effect on the protocol, which it can (e.g. segwit).
I propose adopting a more complete definition of a soft fork along these lines:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: