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Bitcoin’s Great Consensus Cleanup soft fork targets legacy vulnerabilities
BIP-54 aims to patch four flaws in Bitcoin's consensus rules, and its backers think it could be the network's next soft fork Wed 4 Nov 2026 · 17:50 EST · 3 min read In Bitcoin Share Bitcoin ’s next big protocol upgrade may not be a flashy one. The leading candidate is a cleanup job: a proposal to fix four flaws in the network’s consensus rules that have been sitting there since the protocol launched in 2009. The proposal is formally known as BIP-54, or the Great Consensus Cleanup. Four old bugs, one soft fork A soft fork is a...
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