http://i.imgsafe.org/32dc54b763.png I come from a development background, but a lot of the inner workings of the blockchain are still fairly esoteric to me. I have never been involved in blockchain programming before Steemit came along, so it is all new to me. I have learned a lot through my interactions with Steemit development activities and running a witness node, but there is still a lot for me to learn. Yesterday/today - I learned something new! I have always thought of the Steem/Steemit code as two separate pieces: - The back-end Steem blockchain - The front-end Steemit.com GUI The front-end is controlled by Steemit, Inc. and they follow their own release process for deploying changes. There is nothing really stopping them from deploying a change any time they want. Changes to the back-end blockchain code are a little bit more complicated. Up until yesterday, I thought they all required a hardfork. It turns out though, not all changes do! @arhag and @sneak helped to clarify this. - If the changes affect the consensus of the network (i.e. the rules that dictate account balances), then a hardfork is required in order for the changes to take effect. - If the changes do not affect the consensus of the network though, then individual nodes can pick up the changes and start using them - without requiring the network to hardfork. Basically what this means is that there are a lot of 'simpler' changes that can be made to the Steem blockchain API, which can be adopted by Steemit.com and other Steem nodes - without everyone having to go through all the trouble of a hardfork! Very cool :-)
| author | timcliff |
|---|---|
| permlink | til-not-all-changes-to-the-steem-blockchain-require-a-hardfork |
| category | til |
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This is a very technical information for me, but seeing his enthusiasm I interpret that this is a very good news, thank you very much sir @timcliff for sharing this information
| author | jlufer |
|---|---|
| permlink | re-timcliff-til-not-all-changes-to-the-steem-blockchain-require-a-hardfork-20161216t001436126z |
| category | til |
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Welcome. It was in the context of discussing the glitch where you can only use 4 tags instead of 5 in order for the post to show up when you are browsing the 'secondary' tags. I originally thought we would have to wait for the next hardfork for it to be fixed, but they are saying it can be fixed without a hardfork :)
| author | timcliff |
|---|---|
| permlink | re-jlufer-re-timcliff-til-not-all-changes-to-the-steem-blockchain-require-a-hardfork-20161216t002103642z |
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Now I am clear, this topic I already heard, are good news thank you very much Mr. @timcliff
| author | jlufer |
|---|---|
| permlink | re-timcliff-re-jlufer-re-timcliff-til-not-all-changes-to-the-steem-blockchain-require-a-hardfork-20161216t003309934z |
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Oh I didn't know about that too! Thanks for sharing!
| author | lemouth |
|---|---|
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<p>This post has been ranked within the top 25 most undervalued posts in the first half of Dec 16. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $13.08 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.</p> <p>See the full rankings and details in <a href="https://steemit.com/curation/@screenname/the-daily-tribune-most-undervalued-posts-of-dec-16---part-i">The Daily Tribune: Dec 16 - Part I</a>. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in <a href="https://steemit.com/curation/@screenname/introducing-the-daily-tribune-most-undervalued-posts-of-nov-04---part-i">our initial post</a>.</p> <p>If you are the author and would prefer not to receive these comments, simply reply "Stop" to this comment.</p>
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