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Theoretical attack on the network by companies

If the vast majority of the network including users, economic majority, miners, and some subset of the developers were to hardfork a blocksize increase, this would result in effectively two networks. ...
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Does adding OP_1 to scriptSig create a fork between non-segWit and segWit nodes?

For any soft fork, it's possible for a block to contain a transaction violating the new consensus rules. Old nodes would accept this block and new nodes would refuse it. However as long as more than ...
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How do we know whether a pull request will be a soft fork or a hard fork?

Pull requests (PR) are requests to change code. Not all requests to change code are related to the validity of blocks or transactions. As Pietter Wuille said, only a very small percentage of PR do. ...
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How do we know whether a pull request will be a soft fork or a hard fork?

(I'm assuming this question is about pull requests to Bitcoin Core) Bitcoin Core is just a software project, implementing lots of features, which is developed by a community of developers. While it is ...
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