Bitcoin
Bitcoin's next soft fork may serve as a practice run for future upgrades.
Longtime Bitcoin developer and BIP-54 co-author Matt Corallo said he believes there is an 80% chance that the "Great Consensus Cleanup" will become Bitcoin’s next soft fork—a practical fix for issues that everyone agrees are problematic. This upgrade, first proposed in 2019 under the name Great Consensus Cleanup (BIP-54), aimed to address various longstanding issues in Bitcoin's consensus design, including vulnerabilities ranging from the network difficulty adjustment mechanism to denial-of-service attack vectors among miners. Corallo recently said on MARA Foundation TV: “We know there’s a long list of issues that really need to be addressed. These issues are real and...
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