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Re: What is a fork?
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AdolfinWolf
on 16/12/2017, 17:22:05 UTC
People often talk about the fork, but i don't know what that means. Any good links?

https://blog.coinbase.com/what-is-a-bitcoin-fork-cba07fe73ef1?gi=5f8bfde94062
https://www.coindesk.com/short-guide-bitcoin-forks-explained/

A fork is basically a split of the network, mostly due to disagreements about for example the blocktimes, or sizes ( see bitcoin  cash).

What happens is that at a certain moment ( snapshot), the bitcoin chain will split, and another blockchain will be born.

You also have forks that are done by accident, when 2 miners mine a block at the same time, the network will be split aswell, until the next block is mined. ( nodes will accept the longest chain.) The other block will either be orphaned, or rejected.