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In a soft fork, a majority of the network’s miners implement the new rules and begin following the updated version of the blockchain. The rest of the network can continue to follow the blockchain, but they will be unable to validate that new blocks follow the updated rules.
Taproot is an agreed soft fork in the transaction format. The fork adds support for Schnorr signatures, and improves functionality of smart contracts and the Lightning Network. The fork was installed in November 2021. [11] The upgrade adds privacy features. [12] [13] Taproot includes Bitcoin Improvement Proposal numbers BIP340, BIP341, BIP342. [14]
The word "fork" has been used to mean "to divide in branches, go separate ways" as early as the 14th century. [2] In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical copies that (typically) diverge to perform different tasks.
Segregated Witness, or SegWit, is the name used for an implemented soft fork change in the transaction format of Bitcoin.. The formal title "Segregated Witness (Consensus layer)" had Bitcoin Improvement Proposal number BIP141. [1]
In November 2018, Bitcoin Cash experienced a contested hard fork where the project split into two cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision. [ 12 ] In November 2020, there was a second contested hard fork where the leading node implementation, BitcoinABC, created BCHA (now dubbed "eCash" or "XEC").
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