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How do hard forks avoid peering with each other?
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One way that forks can deliberately separate themselves is by using a different TCP port number for network communications.
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How do hard forks avoid peering with each other?
It looks like there is no standard on network joins itself together in practice. According to A History of Bitcoin Hard Forks:
The fact that no one person or group can determine when and how ...
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