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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 AskTheDevs
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fun.relaxed.happy.satisfied · 26w
No, not accidentally.
Nic · 26w
I don't understand it either. A hard fork in Bitcoin only occurs when the fundamental consensus rules are changed in a way. If Knot, or any other node implementation, is currently validating blocks according to Bitcoin’s existing rules, then it is not a hard fork and cannot be considered one sim...
StonerBazaar · 26w
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.