What is a bifurcation? explained in a simple way
In the cryptographic world, a fork happens when one blockchain separates from another dividing into two with a common origin, but with the difference that the two blockchains no longer function as one.
The fork concept is not associated with the area of cryptographic networks. According to the dictionary, it defines the term bifurcate as "dividing into two parts, arms or ends". but coming out of the same root, that is also a fork in a chain of blocks, they have an origin but are divided along the way.
What is a fork
A fork is something similar to what happened in steemit where there were conflicting opinions and a group of developers opened a new project using the steemit source code as a base and made modifications and added features that differentiate it from steem.
Before a fork, it must be taken into account that blockchain networks are governed by a series of strict rules that are part of their protocol and where the nodes must be well synchronized to be able to validate blocks and transactions and add them to the chain so that there is consensus. in the network so that the structure of the block and the transactions that it includes have to have a certain amount of available space and that this amount of space is correct.
Many times the consensus rules of a blockchain network can be modified when the operators of nodes in steemit would be witnesses update the software of their equipment to add the modifications to the block chain there a bifurcation occurs because a new group of people begins to exist. nodes with a different change set than the original.
In my next publication I will talk about the types of forks that exist since this topic is interesting and good to share.
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