Bitcoin
Why Bitcoin's Next Soft Fork Could Feel Like a Practice Run
Longtime Bitcoin developer and BIP-54 co-author Matt Corallo says thereâs an 80% chance the âGreat Consensus Cleanup,â first proposed in 2019, will be Bitcoinâs next soft forkâa practical fix for issues âeveryone agrees are problems.â The upgrade targets four lingering vulnerabilities: poison blocks, time warp bugs, Merkle malleability and duplicate coinbase transactionsânone urgent, but real. Critics like LayerTwo Labsâ Paul Sztorc call it âdepressingâ janitorial work. Four flaws in Bitcoinâs consensus rules that have lingered for years. Issues like quantum resistance may command attention, but a practical cleanup is what many experts think Bitcoinâs next soft fork is likely to...
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