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Isn’t the thing we usually call “Bitcoin” today a fork of the original Bitcoin, precisely because a group decided to change the rules?
by winking070 2y ago
Isn’t the thing we usually call “Bitcoin” today a fork of the original Bitcoin, precisely because a group decided to change the rules?
- wmf 2y agoThere were one or two bugfixes in the early days but Bitcoin is still basically on the original chain and very old versions of the code can still interoperate with the current chain. http://web.archive.org/web/20191223125456/https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/12/23/the-oldest-bitcoin-node-still-runs-seven-years-on http://web.archive.org/web/20191223125456/https://www.trustn...