Hard forks have earned a bit of a bad name.
Long portrayed as dangerous (or at least disruptive), the mechanism is also one of the more intuitive for upgrading blockchains. Quite simply, since blockchains are built on common rules, it can seem like the easiest way to improve them is to introduce new rules (or change existing ones) – and that’s exactly what hard forks, one type of a wider variety of forks, seek to do…
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