In <<forks>> we looked((("consensus rules", "hard forks", id="consensus-hard-fork")))((("forks", "hard forks", id="forks-hard")))((("hard forks", id="hard-forks"))) at how
In <<forks>> we looked((("consensus rules", "hard forks", "explained", id="consensus-hard-fork")))((("forks", "hard forks", "explained", id="forks-hard")))((("hard forks", "explained", id="hard-forks"))) at how
the Bitcoin network may briefly diverge, with two parts of the network
following two different branches of the blockchain for a short time. We
saw how this process occurs naturally, as part of the normal operation
@ -1693,11 +1693,11 @@ while miners on the "a" chain will continue to ignore these
transactions. Even if block 8b does not contain any foocoin
transactions, the miners on the "a" chain cannot process it. To them it
appears to be an invalid block, as its parent "7b" is not recognized as a
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")))((("software forks", startref="software-fork")))((("network forks", startref="network-fork")))((("mining forks", startref="mining-fork")))((("chain forks", startref="chain-fork")))networks.
they are connected to two separate ((("software forks", startref="software-fork")))((("network forks", startref="network-fork")))((("mining forks", startref="mining-fork")))((("chain forks", startref="chain-fork")))((("consensus rules", "hard forks", "types of", startref="consensus-hard-fork")))((("forks", "hard forks", "types of", startref="forks-hard")))((("hard forks", "types of", startref="hard-forks")))networks.