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When trying to explain a bit about #bitcoin in that post, I gave the argument that the hard cap of Bitcoin can’t be changed that easily. Because there would have to be a consensus between all users and nodes to implement that adjustment. Then I got a response stating that the blockchain has already been falsified before, with that link to github.

So now I’m wondering why that happened, and why it wouldn’t happen to change the hard cap of 21M.

If anyone here can help me understand, I would be so grateful.

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El presidente Eloy Musketti 10mo ago

As far as I understand:

They fixed consensus rules to not spend more than cap.

Changing consensus for cap wasn't in question then.

Changing consensus rules would be rough nowadays but not impossible.

Let's say all node runners get infected with a brain disease and they accept a client which doubles the max cap to 42.

Voila. You have bitcoin original (21)and bitcoin virus (42)

Since nobody runs a 21 version the 42 becomes defacto bitcoin.

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binsky 10mo ago

To change the cap from 21 to 42 would require a hardfork right? So whats the difference between soft and hardfork then? Where do you draw the line?