Editing Coin archiving (section)

== Use-case 7: Elegant soft-forks ==

If we define Script as the underlying primitive that gives all these coins their “smart contract” capabilities then Ethereum makes it incredibly, incredibly simple to add new functionality to these coins that is backwards-compatible.

As an example: enable some of Satoshi’s disabled OP_CODES Or perhaps: add CLTV support to every asset?

Or how about adding in new logic entirely? It’s Ethereum, it already allows for complex transactions so this is an incredibly elegant way to add new functionality to these older-style blockchains.

By the way: all of the work in Bitcoin designed to avoid hard forks now becomes a huge benefit here as the work can be used to add support to hundreds of assets for new technical features without breaking older transactional protocols (or old-school software) :)

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