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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

The Portal

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What Is a Block Chain Fork?

A block chain fork is a normal process. The dafork was also a code change implemented by the developers of the clients. It would basically change the rules of the block chain, except instead of changing them permanently, it would only do a single one time change. And so this is a very kind of manual intervention right at basically says like, we all agree to run code that just irregularly takes this money and just reassigns it to this other thing, sotat.

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