I think noobs don't understand this isn't a fork; it's a network upgrade.
If software app is changed so that it doesn't have backward compatibility it is called hard fork. So, Vitalik's ethereum is not a software app anymore. Well, what is it?
A change can be upgrade or downgrade. How do you know this particular change is not a network downgrade?
he asked a question and you asked him a question as well i wonder who is the noob? LOL
anyways the hard fork is a radical change to the protocol that makes previously invalid blocks/transactions valid (or vice-versa). This requires all nodes or users to upgrade to the latest version of the protocol software A softfork don't require any nodes to upgrade to maintain consensus since all blocks with the new softforked in rules also follow the old rules, therefore old clients accept them..
imagine you sending 10 million usd to overseas money actually isnt even transfered so fast as we think even paypal doesnt do money transfer this faster for even 5 usd... because everything works on credit and debt money being physical cant be send so fast you could actually travel to another country faster then your money gets to that country And this is not what we need for the future regardless of what you multiple X for the crypto prices because right now you are buying everything from FIAT money which is issued by goverment and slowly it will turn into cryptos that will have nodes from the goverment either way we will have things issued by govt but we will have inflation rate to less then 5% which happens 100% every 10 years..