Quote from: rollingstorm45 on January 23, 2018, 07:51:46 AM

Quote from: OWZ1337 on January 22, 2018, 09:15:26 PM

soft fork to rekt all siacoin asics ~ next stop 1337 :-D weee

this time I heard the term softfork,
usually i with hardfork
can you explain the difference between the two?

Softforks are forwards-compatible

Old nodes will accept blocks created by new nodes.

With a softfork, only miners will have to upgrade, or else they will end up on the losing fork. Users and merchants can keep running older nodes, which will accept the newer blocks.

Hardforks are not forwards-compatible

Old nodes may not accept blocks created by new nodes.

With a hardfork, everyone (miners, users, and merchants) will need to upgrade to the new code.