<p>You can get the inside view by Edsko de Vries, creator of the hardfork combinator, here: <a href="https://youtu.be/D8OTZULEsaI" rel="noreferrer">https://youtu.be/D8OTZULEsaI</a></p>

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2021-05-08T16:27:53.060Z
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Lars Brünjes
<p>Naïvely one would think it's a mere version tag on the block. However, most other chains do not include a combinator. How does it work at the low level and why only Cardano has it?</p>

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How does the hardfork combinator work?
# How does the hardfork combinator work?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-07)

Naïvely one would think it's a mere version tag on the block. However, most other chains do not include a combinator. How does it work at the low level and why only Cardano has it?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-05-08. Score: 8 | Accepted answer

You can get the inside view by Edsko de Vries, creator of the hardfork combinator, here: <https://youtu.be/D8OTZULEsaI>


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