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That's why there's a version tag in blocks. This would be a hardfork event where all clients must switch simultaneously to the new block format and rules.
by Natanael_L 10y ago
That's why there's a version tag in blocks. This would be a hardfork event where all clients must switch simultaneously to the new block format and rules.
- wolfgke 10y ago> This would be a hardfork event where all clients must switch simultaneously to the new block format and rules. Indeed, but a hard fork is possible (cf. debate about block size). There actually just good "social-economic" reasons not to do a hard fork, but nothing in the Bitcoin technology prevents them.