==== Hard Forks: Software, Network, Mining, and Chain
For software
For ((("software forks", id="software-fork")))((("network forks", id="network-fork")))((("mining forks", id="mining-fork")))((("chain forks", id="chain-fork")))software
developers, the term "fork" has another meaning, adding confusion to the
term "hard fork." In open source software, a fork occurs when a group of
developers choose to follow a different software roadmap and start a
@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ New miners may mine on top of the new block,
while old miners will mine a separate chain based on the old rules. The
partitioned network will make it so that the miners operating on
separate consensus rules won't likely receive each other's blocks, as
they are connected to two separate ((("consensus rules", "hard forks", startref="consensus-hard-fork")))((("forks", "hard forks", startref="forks-hard")))((("hard forks", startref="hard-forks")))networks.
they are connected to two separate ((("consensus rules", "hard forks", startref="consensus-hard-fork")))((("forks", "hard forks", startref="forks-hard")))((("hard forks", startref="hard-forks")))((("software forks", startref="software-fork")))((("network forks", startref="network-fork")))((("mining forks", startref="mining-fork")))((("chain forks", startref="chain-fork")))networks.