FORK - DECENTRALIZED - ALTCOINS


FORK	means that the currency isn’t issued or regulated by a centralized authority. such as a bank or government. a common term in cryptocurrency.^{Source + Source}
DECENTRALIZED	it was designed to cause the existing segwit masf deployment to cause activation in all existing segwit capable node software. currently is 80% of the network nodes. bip148 is a user activated soft fork - uasf. ^{Source + Source}
ALTCOINS	it can also be used to describe a separate cryptocurrency which has been split from the main blockchain, such as namecoin being a “fork” of bitcoin. a split in the blockchain where there are temporarily two different blockchains which miners can work on. (this change is called a “hard fork”.) these can occur if software updates to a bitcoin client are incompatible or if developers decide that changes must be made to the programming of a coin. forks create an alternate version of the blockchain, leaving two blockchains to run simultaneously on different parts of the network. ^{Source + Source}
BIP148	these concern all coins that came after the initial release of the famous bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency. a name coined as the merger of the words bitcoin & alternative. ^{Source + Source}


FORK	it can also be used to describe a separate cryptocurrency which has been split from the main blockchain, such as namecoin being a “fork” of bitcoin. a split in the blockchain where there are temporarily two different blockchains which miners can work on. (this change is called a “hard fork”.) these can occur if software updates to a bitcoin client are incompatible or if developers decide that changes must be made to the programming of a coin. forks create an alternate version of the blockchain, leaving two blockchains to run simultaneously on different parts of the network. ^{Source + Source}
DECENTRALIZED	means that the currency isn’t issued or regulated by a centralized authority. such as a bank or government. a common term in cryptocurrency.^{Source + Source}
ALTCOINS	these concern all coins that came after the initial release of the famous bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency. a name coined as the merger of the words bitcoin & alternative. ^{Source + Source}
BIP148	it was designed to cause the existing segwit masf deployment to cause activation in all existing segwit capable node software. currently is 80% of the network nodes. bip148 is a user activated soft fork - uasf. ^{Source + Source}

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