Quote from: AdolfinWolf on December 16, 2017, 05:22:05 PM

Quote from: Sirbenjamin on December 16, 2017, 04:52:39 PM

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.

i also often read fork but i dont really understand what it is. I only know is when the system had a new one then it will split. Thanks for the information that had shared.