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ForkLog 180 27.10.2025

New Proposal to Limit Blockchain Data Divides Bitcoin Community

A developer known as dathonohm introduced BIP-444, suggesting temporary restrictions on adding arbitrary data to the Bitcoin network.

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ForkLog 19 26.12.2024

‘Q Day’ jitters: how bitcoin’s developers plan to thwart quantum computers

On December 10, researchers at Google Quantum AI unveiled a new quantum chip, Willow. The news rekindled the crypto community’s fears about a quantum threat to bitcoin—a topic that has surfaced periodically.

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ForkLog 28 02.08.2024

Add the cat: why Bitcoin’s potential OP_CAT upgrade matters

Upgrades to the bitcoin network are infrequent—the last soft fork, Taproot, was activated in November 2021. By comparison, since then Ethereum has shipped Shapella, Dencun and The Merge, with the Pectra upgrade already slated for the first quarter of 2025. Meanwhile, the community is only debating the possible implementation of an improvement proposal dubbed OP_CAT […]

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ForkLog 12 16.08.2022

Ethereum community proposes soft fork to counter OFAC sanctions

Vitalik Buterin endorsed a hypothetical option to burn the stake of major Ethereum validators who would agree to comply with OFAC sanctions at the protocol level. However, the community included others who supported censorship.

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ForkLog 7 14.11.2021

Taproot upgrade activated on the Bitcoin network

In the Bitcoin blockchain, the Taproot upgrade has been activated, aimed at increasing privacy, efficiency and scalability of the network. The soft fork occurred at block 709,632, mined by the F2Pool mining pool on November 14 at 08:15 Moscow time.

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ForkLog 13 01.08.2020

Bitcoin Independence Day: Community marks the third anniversary of UASF activation

On August 1, 2017, a user-activated soft fork (UASF) was activated on the Bitcoin network, enabling the activation of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol. This date is celebrated in the community as Bitcoin Independence Day.

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Krzysztof Shpak 376 03.03.2020

Justin Sun May Lose Battle for Steemit as Exchanges Flee the Battlefield

On March 2, Justin Sun and three major centralized exchanges Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex thwarted the soft coup, attempted by Steemit’s witness super-majority. Please check our extensive investigation on that whole kerfuffle.

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Krzysztof Shpak 938 02.03.2020

To the Coup and Back: Story Behind Steemit Community’s Failed Revolt

Tron Foundation led by the industry celebrity Justin Sun has recently acquired Steemit, one of the oldest and most popular blockchain-based social media platforms.

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nick 15 07.05.2019

Bitcoin Developer Proposes Two BIPs for Upcoming Soft Fork

Renowned Bitcoin developer and Blockstream contributor Pieter Wuille has published two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) aimed at implementing the Taproot technology through a soft fork.

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ForkLog 312 26.01.2018

The Definitive Guide to Past and Upcoming Bitcoin Forks

Bitcoin is one of the hottest buzzwords right now. No matter where you look online somebody is talking about it. And being at record high-level prices, that makes a lot of sense! Although still a highly volatile market, cryptocurrencies are rapidly gaining in popularity.

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ForkLog 23 04.06.2017

What is a user-activated soft fork (UASF)?

1 What is a user-activated soft fork (UASF)? The acronym UASF stands for User Activated Soft Fork—a mechanism by which full nodes set a date to enforce new rules, relying on broad industry support, the so-called economic majority. 2 What is a soft fork? There are two main types of code change: soft forks and hard forks; with a soft fork, non-upgraded nodes can still interoperate with upgraded ones.

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ForkLog 109 05.07.2016

Bitcoin Core Activates CSV Soft Fork

Bitcoin Core developers have announced they activated CSV soft fork, which incluides BIP68, BIP113, and BIP112.

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