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It's not about which chain is longer. With segwit as a soft fork old clients will recognize new blocks as valid but fail to see segwit transactions, effectively
by thescriptkiddie 11y ago
It's not about which chain is longer. With segwit as a soft fork old clients will recognize new blocks as valid but fail to see segwit transactions, effectively failing silently. With segwit as a hard fork old clients will not accept new blocks and fail loudly. In both cases old clients are forced to upgrade in order to keep using the network.
- ikeboy 11y agoAll segwit transactions are valid under the old rules. Old clients can continue sending transactions as they did before, as I mentioned, segwit only repurposes non-standard transactions, so it should have no effect on someone using the network normally.