Bitcoin Glossary

Soft Fork

Also known as: soft forks

A backward-compatible protocol upgrade — old nodes still accept blocks created under the new rules. SegWit (2017) and Taproot (2021) were both activated as soft forks.

Lessons mentioning "Soft Fork"

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