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Hard fork

4 claims across 3 works, 2018–2019.

Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying hard-fork. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.

Every claim under this term

3249860-042 2018 empirical: Tokens launched before 2015 were overwhelmingly developed on a hardfork governance mechanism or a combination of hardfork and one other governance type.
3373393-039 2019 design: Blockchain-based corporate governance solutions in DAOs require evolutionary blockchain governance protocols, and socially optimal hard-forking rules cannot suffice.
3441904-024 2019 mechanism: Hard forks can reintroduce the double spend problem, because wallets, merchants, and users running the previous code deem the new code invalid and cannot detect spending on it, so coins spent in a new
3441904-025 2019 failure: If a community cannot agree after a hard fork on which chain is the true chain, the result can be two blockchains competing in perpetuity, and the only viable remedy is abandoning one branch, which ca