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NFTs Attacking Bitcoin? with Eric Wall & Casey Rodarmor

Bankless

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Is Bitcoin a Hard Fork or a Soft Fork?

There's like this two parts of Bitcoin block space and this part is kind of fuzzy for me Where there's the normal i make a Bitcoin transaction and that data goes into one part of Bitcoin And then there's this other part of Bitcoin which I think taproot really unlocked Which is where this nft data is going into. Eric: You probably think these are hard forks, but they're not they're soft forksEric: The big change here was that because this data can be pruned on full nodes without It stopping being a full node We changed how much it cost to embed such data into the blockchain So now there's a 4x discount for this type of witness data.

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