James Lu [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2021-10-15 📝 Original message:Making Bitcoin function ...

📅 Original date posted:2021-10-15
📝 Original message:Making Bitcoin function after 2038 is by definition a hard fork

I feel if we do HF, we should bundle other HF changes with it...

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:19 PM vjudeu via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> It seems that Bitcoin Core will stop working in 2038 because of assertion
> checking if the current time is non-negative. Also, the whole chain will
> halt after reaching median time 0xffffffff in 2106. More information:
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5365359.0
>
> I wonder if that kind of issues are possible to fix in a soft-fork way.
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