it's not just any protocol but one with bitcoins original design in February of this year the team behind Bitcoin sve led a the latest upgrade and hard fork of the protocol which was called Genesis because it was designed to restore as much of bitcoins original design and protocol as possible that's because over the decade of bitcoins existance former protocol developers have changed a lot of bitcoins original design it had in it so much of the capabilities developers are looking for for many applications but those were changed those are