Miner Activated Soft Fork, MASF

Definition

A Soft Fork activated by through miner signalling.

Synonyms

• Miner-activated soft fork

• MASF

Not To Be Confused With

• User Activated Soft Fork (a soft fork activated by flag day or node enforcement instead of miner signalling.)

• Fork (a regular fork where all nodes follow the same consensus rules, so the fork is resolved once one chain has more proof of work than another)

• Hard fork (a permanent divergence in the block chain caused by non-upgraded nodes not following new consensus rules)

• Soft fork (a temporary divergence in the block chain caused by non-upgraded nodes not following new consensus rules)

• Software fork (when one or more developers permanently develops a codebase separately from other developers)

• Git fork (when one or more developers temporarily develops a codebase separately from other developers