diff --git a/ch06_transactions.adoc b/ch06_transactions.adoc index 2287d977..dec8cf3c 100644 --- a/ch06_transactions.adoc +++ b/ch06_transactions.adoc @@ -931,12 +931,12 @@ a txid is called _segregated witness_ (segwit). The obvious method for implementing segwit requires a change to Bitcoin's consensus rules that would not be compatible with -older full nodes, also ((("hard forks")))((("forks", "hard")))called +older full nodes, also ((("hard forks")))((("forks", "hard forks")))called a _hard fork_. Hard forks come with a lot of challenges, as we'll discuss further in <>. An alternative approach to segwit was described in late 2015. This -would use a backward-compatible change to the consensus rules, ((("soft forks")))((("forks", "soft")))called a +would use a backward-compatible change to the consensus rules, ((("soft forks")))((("forks", "soft forks")))called a _soft fork_. Backward compatible means that full nodes implementing the change must not accept any blocks that full nodes without the change would consider invalid. As long as they obey that rule, newer full