soft fork

English

Noun

soft fork (plural soft forks)

1. (cryptocurrencies) A rule change of a blockchain that does not require an upgrade of the whole network.

   Coordinate term: hard fork

   • 2020, Lorne Lantz, Daniel Cawrey, Mastering Blockchain, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 61:

     As it pertains to blockchain technology, a soft fork is an upgrade to mining software that makes a change to the network but does not require that all miners participate.

Further reading

• fork (blockchain) § Soft fork on Wikipedia.Wikipedia