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User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF)

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How node operators coordinated policy to enforce soft-fork activation during the SegWit era.

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Curated resources (4)

• BIP 148: Mandatory Activation of SegWit (article) Formal UASF proposal used during 2017 activation debates.
• Bitcoin Optech: Soft Fork Activation (article) Comparative history of activation mechanisms.
• Lopp: Bitcoin History (article) Historical timeline and primary references around governance conflicts.
• The Blocksize War (book) Directly covers the emergence, strategy, and consequences of the UASF movement.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Block Size War

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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