# Hardfork

`kaal:entity:hardfork`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `hardfork`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3808873-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-033) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralized networks depend on dynamic governance because evolving blockchain protocols require updates, and the practice of hardforking that remained prevalent in the early 2020s created significant economic loss for such blockchains.
  > As blockchains protocols evolve in a given market, they require updates. The practice of hardforking, that was still prevalent in the early 2020s, created significant economic loss for such blockchains.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-036) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Forking bifurcates network nodes and can reintroduce the double spend problem the network had already solved, because users running pre fork code treat post fork code as invalid and cannot detect spending on it, so coins spent in a post fork block can be spent again on a pre fork block.
  > For example, the bifurcation of network nodes can result in the reemergence of the double spend problem that the previous network had overcome. Users running the pre-fork code consider the post-fork code invalid, they cannot detect the spending on the post-fork code.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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