Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. If you’ve been following cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in recent months, you will have come across a lot of debate about ‘forks’. In programming terms, a fork is a word used to describe a technical event that takes place when participants on a network must agree on a set of common rules. Forks can be hard or soft. In this article, Hard Fork is going to take a look at what soft forks are, and…

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