232 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 8 Aug \ on: How are these not hard-forks? bitcoin
The answer is here:
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So if you're running an old node, you're not fully verifying transactions spending from segwit outputs according to segwit consensus rules. Your node assumes anyone could have spent them according to pre-segwit consensus rules. I think this is what made it possible to activate SegWit as a soft-fork.
I have been confused by this for a while, too. This question actually lead to my first post on SN (#57444).
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