- Soft forks - risks of fractional reserve. Mike Hearn. I have been reading a lot recently about SegWit, and I thought this is a great article to go through, especially for newcomers, who might be interested in technical differences of compatible (soft) upgrades and incompatible (hard) upgrades. https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7 14 comments btc
- Mike Hearn: "On Consensus and Forks". Its a great explanation on why soft forks are very dangerous and should be avoided when at all possible. https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7 18 comments btc
- On consensus and forks – Mike Hearn - Explains why soft forks are a dangerous slippery slope (2015) https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7 8 comments btc
- Hard forks are the only guaranteed safe way to upgrade ANY piece of software, not just Bitcoin. https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7#.apjbqdl7o 13 comments btc
- "In a correctly functioning Bitcoin network, no soft forks should EVER happen. Only hard forks." - Mike Hearn https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7#.monpzonny 71 comments btc
- Why are soft forks bad? - Mike Hearn https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050c792e7#.6c7yhmrg2 35 comments btc
Linking pages
- The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment | by Mike Hearn | Mike’s blog https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.3qodf0p0m 825 comments
- The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment | by Mike Hearn | Mike’s blog https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7 72 comments
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