What is Fork

A fork is a division of the blockchain into two or more parallel chains. A distinction is made between natural and artificial forks .

natural fork are very common and are continuous. The mining consensus ensures that the natural forks are solved early.

In addition to the natural forks, there are also artificial forks. These types of Forks can have a change in the protocol by carrying out the nodes a software update. artificial forks are eluded in Soft Fork and Hard Fork.