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Soft Forks vs Hard Forks

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Compatibility tradeoffs in protocol upgrades.

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Curated resources (4)

• Bitcoin Core Academy (article) Protocol deep dives and exercises.
• BIPs Repository (article) Canonical specification source for standards.
• Bitcoin Dev Network (article) Practical implementation context.
• The Blocksize War (book) Concrete historical case for why soft-fork and hard-fork tradeoffs are social as well as technical.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Consensus Rules

Direct dependents (4)

• BIPs Process
• Block Size War
• Sidechains
• Version Bits Signaling

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