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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by postalrat on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:52PM (#42939401)
You can't patch the rules for the existing bitcoins. People would have to move them to new rules.
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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by desumeku on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:06PM (#42939616)
That is not necessarily how this works. The only thing required to happen is that a super-majority of the miners running the bitcoin software voluntarily update to a new version. This is how changes have been done to BTC before.
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