SOB: Ethereum, Bitcoin; Hard Fork, Soft Fork: How Decentralized Change Is Made
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4.7 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:51.3 | It's worked exactly as intended, and it has allowed Ethereum to continue to introduce new features, |
| 0:59.0 | even features the miners don't want by forcing them into a situation where they have to accept the hard fork that's offered to them. |
| 1:08.7 | Hey folks, I'm Adam B. Levine, and this is speaking of Bitcoin. |
| 1:11.6 | A couple of weeks ago, the Ethereum Network adopted its latest in a long series of backwards-incompatible upgrades known as hard forks. |
| 1:18.6 | The London Hard Fork introduced, among other things, a pretty substantial rethink about how miners are rewarded and what happens to the fees you pay. |
| 1:25.6 | But that's not what we're talking about here today. It actually just got me thinking, and it's a topic that we like to revisit from |
| 1:31.5 | time to time, whether we'll really ever see that sort of protocol level, fundamental change to |
| 1:36.8 | the incentives governing Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, ever again. So we're going to talk |
| 1:42.5 | about it. To do that, I'm joined as always by the other host of the show, |
| 1:45.9 | Jonathan Mohan. Hey, hey. And Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Hello. Stephanie is off this week. So we saw the taproot |
| 1:54.7 | upgrade go into effect, but that was not a backwards and compatible upgrade. It was what we call |
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