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Soft Fork or Soft-Forking Change is a temporary fork in the Blockchain which commonly occurs when miners using non-upgraded nodes don't follow a new consensus rule their nodes don’t know about.
Not to be confused with Fork, Hard fork, Software fork or Git fork. ((("Soft Fork")))((("Soft-Forking Change", see="Soft Fork")))
SPV (akka Simplified Payment Verification)::
SPV (aka Simplified Payment Verification)::
SPV or Simplified Payment Verification is a method for verifying particular transactions were included in a block without downloading the entire block. The method is used by some lightweight Bitcoin clients. ((("SPV")))((("Simplified Payment Verification", see="SPV")))
Stale Block::
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Turing completeness::
A program language is called "Turing complete", if that it can run any program that a Turing machine can run given enough time and memory. ((("Turing completeness")))
UTXO (akka Unspent Transaction Output)::
UTXO (aka Unspent Transaction Output)::
UTXO is an Unspent Transaction Output that can be spent as an input in a new transaction. ((("UTXO")))
wallet::
Software that holds all your bitcoin addresses and secret keys. Use it to send, receive, and store your bitcoin.((("wallet")))
WIF (akka Wallet Import Format)::
WIF (aka Wallet Import Format)::
WIF or Wallet Import Format is a data interchange format designed to allow exporting and importing a single private key with a flag indicating whether or not it uses a compressed public key. ((("WIF")))