• called orphaned blocks). Intentional forks that modify the rules of a blockchain can be classified as follows: A hard fork is a change to the blockchain protocol...
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    technical workings of bitcoin, in a process known as a fork. Forks can be grouped into two types: A hard fork is a change to the blockchain protocol that is not...
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  • first hard fork splitting bitcoin happened on 1 August 2017, resulting in the creation of Bitcoin Cash. The following is a list of notable hard forks splitting...
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    The DAO (redirect from DAO Hard Fork)
    subsidiary account. The Ethereum community controversially decided to hard-fork the Ethereum blockchain to restore approximately all funds to the original...
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  • began a weekly technology news podcast for the New York Times, called Hard Fork, co-hosting with Kevin Roose. Roose, in 2021, praised Newton with having...
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    which would increase the block size limit to eight megabytes through a hard fork. Supporters of a block size increase were more committed to an on-chain...
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  • between 14 and 15 seconds, while for bitcoin it is on average 10 minutes. A hard fork is a change to the blockchain protocol that is not backward compatible...
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    whether Ethereum should perform a contentious "hard fork" to reappropriate the affected funds. The fork resulted in the network splitting into two blockchains:...
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    (2018-06-12). "Google should learn from Apple's cryptocurrency guidelines". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-11-11. Beedham, Matthew (2020-01-03). "Google...
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  • "Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-02-29. "Cost of a 51% Attack for Different...
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  • the money restored, via a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain. Most Ethereum miners and clients switched to the new fork while the original chain became...
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    significant forks took place in August. One, Bitcoin Cash, is a hard fork off the main chain in opposition to the other, which is a soft fork to implement...
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    the Bitcoin blockchain. He supported the development of Bitcoin XT as a hard fork method towards an increase. Ver and his high school friend Jesse Powell...
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  • "ethereum". GitHub. "Ethereum Classic Labs Announces Network Upgrade, Thanos Hard Fork". prweb.com. Retrieved November 26, 2020. "README/README.md at master"...
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    Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is a cryptocurrency. It is a hard fork of Bitcoin, the open source cryptocurrency. It is an open source, decentralized digital currency...
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    "BitTorrent inventor walks away after TRON acquisition". The Next Web. Hard Fork. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2019...
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    flaw. On 15 July 2016, a short notice on-chain vote was held on the DAO hard fork. Of the 82,054,716 ETH in existence, only 4,542,416 voted, for a total...
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  • billion in revenue in 2017. He is a leading supporter of Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of bitcoin created in 2017 with increased transaction capacity. He topped...
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  • users to withdraw Ethereum Classic (ETC) from the exchange, following a hard fork in Ethereum's code. In October 2017, Gemini announced that it was allowing...
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  • "ConsenSys acquires Infura, the centralizing tech powering Ethereum dapps". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-12-13. "ConsenSys challenges WRC finding...
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    ditch its most centralized component, but the timeline is still murky". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Retrieved 17 January 2020. Heilman, Ethan; Narula, Neha;...
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  • ISBN 9781450358385. S2CID 134234291. Canellis, David (2018-09-27). "Bitcoin hard fork nightmare becomes reality after testnet splits". TNW | Hardfork. Retrieved...
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  • avoid the risk of a hard fork for the bitcoin network. On 8 November 2017, the developers of SegWit2x announced that the hard fork planned for around 16...
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    bug could've let hackers steal Ethereum powering its DAI stablecoin". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Archived from the original on 2021-01-16. Retrieved 2021-01-14...
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  • and stated it would roll out new software to implement an emergency "hard fork" to render all of the tokens that Tether identified as stolen in the heist...
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  • Korean hacker group Lazarus is using Telegram to steal cryptocurrency". Hard Fork | The Next Web. Retrieved 2020-08-26. "North Korean Regime-Backed Programmer...
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    internet is changing us", and the cohost of The New York Times podcast "Hard Fork" with co-host Casey Newton. Roose appeared on The Daily Show with Jon...
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  • had a time delay in place before the hacker could remove the funds; a hard fork of the Ethereum software was done to claw back the funds from the attacker...
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    the switch between the Classic and Praos versions of Cardano using a hard fork combinator that preserved the blockchain history; [non-primary source...
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    Softail (section Front forks)
    tail) motorcycle intentionally looks like vintage motorcycles with a rigid hard-tail frame that has a triangle of steel tubes at the rear axle, as on a bicycle...
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