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Originally developed by [https://dash.org DASH].

A multi-phased fork, colloquially known as a "spork", is a mechanism unique to Terracoin used to safely deploy new features to the network through network-level variables to avoid the risk of unintended network forking during upgrades. It can also be used to disable certain features if a security vulnerability is discovered - see here for a brief introduction to sporks. This documentation describes the meaning of each spork currently existing on the network, and how to check their respective statuses.

== Spork functions ==

Sporks are set using integer values. Many sporks may be set to a particular epoch datetime (number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970) to specify the time at which they will active. Enabled sporks are set to 0 (seconds until activation). This function is often used to set a spork enable date so far in the future that it is effectively disabled until changed. The following sporks currently exist on the network and serve functions as described below:

'''SPORK_1_INSTANTSEND_ENABLED''': Governs the ability of Terracoin clients to use InstandSend functionality.
'''SPORK_2_INSTANTSEND_BLOCK_FILTERING''': If enabled, masternodes will reject blocks containing transactions in conflict with locked but unconfirmed InstandSend transactions.
'''SPORK_3_INSTANTSEND_MAX_VALUE''': Enforces the maximum value in TRC that can be included in an InstantSend transaction.
'''SPORK_4_MASTERNODE_PAYMENT_ENFORCEMENT''': If enabled, miners must pay 50% of the block reward to a masternode currently pending selection or the block will be considered invalid.
'''SPORK_5_SUPERBLOCKS_ENABLED''': If enabled, superblocks are verified and issued to pay proposal winners.
'''SPORK_6_RECONSIDER_BLOCKS''': Forces reindex of a specified number of blocks to recover from unintentional network forks.
'''SPORK_7_REQUIRE_SENTINEL_FLAG''': Toggles whether masternodes with status are eligible for payment if status is WATCHDOG_EXPIRED, i.e. Sentinel is not running properly.

== Viewing spork status ==

The spork show and spork active commands issued in the debug window (or from terracoin-cli on a masternode) allow you to interact with sporks. You can open the debug window by selecting Tools > Debug console.

[[File:debugconsole_sporks.png|Debug Console Sporks]

spork show and spork active output in the Terracoin Core debug console

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 The spork show and spork active commands issued in the debug window (or from terracoin-cli on a masternode) allow you to interact with sporks. You can open the debug window by selecting Tools > Debug console.
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 spork show and spork active output in the Terracoin Core debug console

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 Originally developed by [https://dash.org DASH].
-A multi-phased fork, colloquially known as a "spork", is a mechanism unique to Terracoin used to safely deploy new features to the network through network-level variables to avoid the risk of unintended network forking during upgrades. It can also be used to disable certain features if a security vulnerability is discovered - see here for a brief introduction to sporks. This documentation describes the meaning of each spork currently existing on the network, and how to check their respective statuses.
+A multi-phased fork, colloquially known as a "spork", is a mechanism unique to Terracoin used to safely deploy new features to the network through network-level variables to avoid the risk of unintended network forking during upgrades. It can also be used to disable certain features if a security vulnerability is discovered - see [[Spork]] for a brief introduction to sporks. This documentation describes the meaning of each spork currently existing on the network, and how to check their respective statuses.
 == Spork functions ==

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 '''SPORK_1_INSTANTSEND_ENABLED''': Governs the ability of Terracoin clients to use InstandSend functionality.
 '''SPORK_2_INSTANTSEND_BLOCK_FILTERING''': If enabled, masternodes will reject blocks containing transactions in conflict with locked but unconfirmed InstandSend transactions.
 '''SPORK_3_INSTANTSEND_MAX_VALUE''': Enforces the maximum value in TRC that can be included in an InstantSend transaction.
 '''SPORK_4_MASTERNODE_PAYMENT_ENFORCEMENT''': If enabled, miners must pay 50% of the block reward to a masternode currently pending selection or the block will be considered invalid.
 '''SPORK_5_SUPERBLOCKS_ENABLED''': If enabled, superblocks are verified and issued to pay proposal winners.
 '''SPORK_6_RECONSIDER_BLOCKS''': Forces reindex of a specified number of blocks to recover from unintentional network forks.
 '''SPORK_7_REQUIRE_SENTINEL_FLAG''': Toggles whether masternodes with status are eligible for payment if status is WATCHDOG_EXPIRED, i.e. Sentinel is not running properly.