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What is the difference between a fork and a hard fork?
Posted by Taras Lanchev on
The majority of cryptos have been created as a result of a fork. The number of forks is increasing day by day, but it's important to know the differences between a fork and a hard fork. Let's use an example to explain. Litecoin - was originally a fork of Bitcoin. Its foundations are built on the source code of BTC, but its blockchain was started from block 0. Bitcoin Cash - is a hard fork of Bitcoin. Similarly to the fork - the foundations are built using the source code of Bitcoin, yet the blockchain was started from block 478559. As a result of that, the...