Questions tagged [activation]
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Why does an activated soft fork not invalidate the blockchain?
In Antonopolous’s Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Ed p263, it says in the example of the BIP-34 soft fork activation the following:
"When 95% (950 of the most recent 1000 blocks) are version 2, version 1 ...
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Why isn't the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Inquisition recently had a PR about soft fork activation and as part that PR, it buries taproot and references a closed PR to Bitcoin Core to bury taproot. Will the taproot deployment be ...
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How did SegWit start
My understanding of SegWit is that any non-segwit (legacy) nodes will see a SegWit output as an output anyone can spend (i.e. no signature required). This is currently fine since if the miner mines a ...
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Automatically reverting soft forks
Recently, Harding discussed on bitcoin-dev mailing list an idea for a transitory soft fork activation e.g. for CTV. The idea (if I understood correctly) was that the activation would come with inbuilt ...
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