Linked Questions

A fork is a splitting of the blockchain. But what is the difference between a hard fork and a soft fork?

My understanding was that forking is essentially update made to the blockchain software associated with the cryptocurrency, until I came across this: A “fork” is the term used to describe a single ...

The orphaned blocks view from BlockChain.info shows a recent fork of the blockchain (starting with block 173,928) that went four blocks long before being orphaned. Other than the controlled rewind ...

When people talk about possible changes to how Bitcoin works they sometimes say a particular change would require a hard fork. What does that mean? Can a hard fork cause problems?

BIP 50 describes the 2013 event in which a block chain fork persisted for several hours. Its first paragraph reads: A block that had a larger number of total transaction inputs than previously seen ...

Satoshi Nakamoto is supposed to own 1.000.000 bitcoins on a thousands of wallets, and most of them are untouched since early blocks. This stake can potentially flood the market, so miners could ...

In an Optech newsletter, size is referred to using vbytes. Is there a difference between vbytes and bytes? If so, what is the difference?

this is perhaps more of an economics question than a bitcoin question, but i'm wondering if it would be viable to leave the block size capped at 1MB for all time and simply let a series of rules ...

What is the case after halving reward takes place: Would bitcoin price gets double, since its harder to mine? Would Blockchain introduces more blocks (e.g: 1/5mins)?

I would regularly check coin.dance/blocks for updates on Segregated Witness and Bitcoin Unlimited popularity among miners. Another proposal called "Emergent Consensus" has appeared. Could someone ...

In all of the blockchain samples that I see e.g. adilmoujahid, Savjee as I checked, they added previous Hash by creating a block. Suppose that, L is the current last block in a chain. Block A and ...

In the blocksize debate it is often stated that hard forks are dangerous. This is sometimes supported by the claim that "people may lose money and must be protected". And that it's impossible to ...

I was putting an answer for this question together when I realised my idea would require a new type of transaction to be invented and included in blocks. Then I wondered how that could work. There ...

There are some rules, called consensus rules. For example, block generation fee amount. And it is said that "change to consensus rules is hard-fork". But how exactly the consensus rules are forced? ...

What prevents miners from mining more bitcoin after 21million btc was mined?