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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by kanzure on Saturday December 26, 2015 @04:28PM (#10795367)
> Every "soft-fork" to date has used PoW to activate new consensus rules

Consensus rule parameters are things like "max block size". However, there have been some proposals for extension blocks to increase block size without requiring a hard-fork (e.g. using a soft-fork mechanism).

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