Timeline for Will forks and alternative block chains cause hyper-inflation of decentralized digital money?
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| Sep 30, 2011 at 20:16 | comment | added | eldentyrell | that's a change that can be rolled into the official client at some point -- theoretically, yes, but the logistics of convincing everybody to change their client are nightmarish. The non-upgraded clients will reject blocks from the upgraded clients and automatically fork the blockchain without any human intervention. | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 19:06 | vote | accept | herzmeister | ||
| Aug 30, 2011 at 22:43 | comment | added | David Perry | I also think most people forget that "fork" doesn't mean "permanently branched away from" - for example, if enough people decide that SolidCoin is better because of the more frequent retargets, that's a change that can be rolled into the official client at some point. Forking the block chain is permanent, forking the project to experiment with new features isn't. | |
| Aug 30, 2011 at 22:34 | history | answered | David Perry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |