Bitcoin: A Social Fork in the Making? If you want to claim that bitcoin is a database, then why don’t we define some other terms? What’s a Fork? What if core was the fork and you just didn’t know it yet? Knots has been around for years now, working flawlessly, maintained by someone who has been developing bitcoin since 2011. This fork just happened more slowly. It started with segwit and taproot. I don’t know the history well, but you all can correct me, but those were big changes, and they had unintended consequences. Over the last few years, the two versions have slowly been drifting apart into two completely different “chains.” ...