Replying to FinnStin

I think that if a small minority of users activated the fork, and a block that violated the new rules was confirmed, the minority would either reject it and a hard for would occur, or they could be stolen from.

If 51% of miners activated the fork, they could successfully reject and reorg any blocks that break the new rules.

If less than 51% of the miners accept it, it becomes a hard fork.

I might not have this all correct, but this is where my thinking is.
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Jacob 2y ago

In none of the cases described does a hard fork occur. It is a soft fork despite the forking of the chain. Both chains are valid Bitcoin blockchains but the majority of nodes are following the one that contains more work.

I suppose you then end up with some form of an alt coin, which could become Bitcoin in the future if the chain contained more work.

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FinnStin 2y ago

I guess I misunderstood what a hard fork actually is. Point being, there would be two chains until the more restricted updated chain one outran the legacy one.