Fork

By Sunday, July 23, more than 95% of miners had voted for Segregated Witness, defined in BIP 141, activation.  

March 23, 2017 Bitcoin Unlimited is signaling activation in the last 38.3% of recent blocks. A Worldwide hard fork could take place at any time. Everyone using Bitcoins could be affected.

Slush pool, the world’s oldest mining pool, is the only one to let its miners decide by way of voting on the proposed Bitcoin soft fork. All the other pools reserved this right for only top managers of the pools. CoinIdol.com collected the opinions of experts on the SegWit voting that began on the 19th of November 2016.

As of 12:00pm GMT yesterday, a majority of Ethereum Network miners agreed to fork the Ethereum blockchain in order to refund Ether that was hacked from the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Now the Ethereum community must choose their DAO (“a way” in Chinese) with which coin they will support.

A month since The DAO exploit, the Ethereum Foundation proposes a hard fork to the Ethereum software that refunds the lost Ether. The decision process of whether to accept or reject the hard fork that is being presented begins on block number 1,920,000 which is at approximately July 20, 12:00pm GMT.  

Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange operator Coinbase, cautioned against Ethereum hard fork development and changes to the Blockchain code on the platform.