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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: wingding on May 26, 2017, 08:41:16 PM



Title: Have Bitcoin's consensus rules ever been changed?
Post by: wingding on May 26, 2017, 08:41:16 PM
if so, how often, and on what?


Title: Re: Have Bitcoin's consensus rules ever been changed?
Post by: amaclin on May 26, 2017, 09:59:44 PM
if so, how often, and on what?
every time on soft-fork activated


Title: Re: Have Bitcoin's consensus rules ever been changed?
Post by: achow101 on May 26, 2017, 10:16:23 PM
Certainly. The consensus rules change with any fork, be it hard or soft. All planned forks to date have been soft forks. To see what these are, look at the list of BIPs: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/README.mediawiki. Anything listed as "Consensus (Soft fork)" and has a status of "Final" are all of the BIPs for soft forks that have already been activated.