soft fork

Phonetic: /sɒft fɔrk/

Part of Speech: noun

Category: To be determined

A change to the blockchain protocol resulting in only previously valid blocks and transactions being made invalid. Since old nodes will recognize the new blocks as valid, a soft fork is backward-compatible. However, this can result in a potential divide in the blockchain, as the old software generates blocks that read as invalid according to the new rules. Contrast with 'hard fork'; for more basic information regarding forks, see 'fork'.

Definition source: Mapachurro probably wrote this.

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