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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Increasing the blocksize as a (generalized) softfork.
by
ZoomT
on 20/12/2015, 17:41:44 UTC
No it does not. A soft fork simply lets the old chain die out if people are still mining there. They aren't actively attacking the old chain as your proposal suggests. A normal soft fork would still allow miners to mine on and extend the old chain. This causes problems, see the July 4th forking incident for an example of this.

A softfork is the same as a 51% attack against the old rules.  The generalized softfork is no different.  I think DannyHamilton understands this.