Is there any evidence that diverging clients (core vs knots) can cause an accidental hardfork?
I’ve seen claims that it can and that it cannot but no good evidence either way. #asknostr hashtag As...
It depends on how you define an accident. If someone implements or modifies a rule in the Knots client which, for example, rejects all blocks with OP_Return messages, then this would lead to a hard fork because the chain would be different.
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