Soft Fork BIPs
Soft fork mechanisms. 2 proposals.
- BIP 8: Version bits with lock-in by height: Complete. An alternative way to activate soft forks (backward-compatible rule upgrades) that measures time in block counts rather than clock timestamps. It also adds an option to guarantee activation at the…
- BIP 9: Version bits with timeout and delay: Deployed. Lets miners signal readiness for several soft forks (backward-compatible rule upgrades) at once by setting individual bits in each block's version number. An upgrade locks in once enough blocks…
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Guides
- What is a BIP? Bitcoin Improvement Proposals explained
- Taproot explained: BIP 340, 341 and 342
- Bitcoin soft forks: every consensus upgrade and how it activated
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