there are two types of forks soft forks and hard Forks a soft Fork is literally like a software update for the blockchain once a majority of minors or nodes agree to it it becomes the new set of standards for the network soft Forks are super common for bringing in new features or functions especially for big cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and ethereum and here's the best part since the end result is just one blockchain these changes are Backward Compatible meaning they work just fine with all the previous blocks cool right now a hard Fork occurs when the developer Community changes the code so much that the new version is no longer compatible with the previous blocks when this happens the blockchain splits in two the original one let's call it the base model and the new version with its own set of rules this split actually creates a brand new cryptocurrency ever heard of Bitcoin cash or Bitcoin gold yep they for example came from hard Forks of the original Bitcoin blockchain
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