Bitcoin developers eye maintenance soft fork to fix consensus flaws
Image: DecryptBitcoin developers expect the next soft fork to be the Great Consensus Cleanup, known as BIP-54. The upgrade targets four lingering flaws in Bitcoin consensus rules. These include vulnerabilities in the difficulty adjustment mechanism and miner denial-of-service vectors. Matt Corallo states there is an 80% chance this upgrade is next for the network. The last soft fork was Taproot in November 2021.
Key points
- The Great Consensus Cleanup is proposed as Bitcoin's next soft fork to address four lingering consensus rule flaws.
- Matt Corallo states there is an 80% chance that BIP-54 is up next for the network.
- The upgrade targets vulnerabilities in the difficulty adjustment mechanism and denial-of-service vectors among miners.
- The last soft fork to activate on the network was Taproot in November 2021.
Why it matters
The proposed maintenance soft fork addresses long-standing consensus flaws and may establish a deployment playbook for future network upgrades.
What's unclear
A formal timeline for the BIP-54 undertaking has not been established.
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Decrypt
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Coverage timeline
- First reported by Unchained
- Also reported by Decrypt
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