Why Bitcoin’s Next Soft Fork Could Feel Like a Practice Run

Bitcoin developers look set to address four flaws in Bitcoin’s consensus rules that have lingered for years. Issues like quantum resistance may command attention, but a practical cleanup is what many experts think Bitcoin’s next soft fork is likely to address, spanning fixes for vulnerabilities in the network’s difficulty adjustment mechanism to denial-of-service vectors among miners. Proposed in 2019 and known as the Great Consensus Cleanup (BIP-54), the upgrade seeks to address the “cruft” in Bitcoin’s consensus design through changes that have historically been sidelined, as described by long-time Bitcoin developer and BIP-54 co-author Matt Corallo. “There’s a laundry list of things we know of that we really need to clean up,” Corallo told MARA Foundation Head Isabel Foxen Duke during a recent appearance on MARA Foundation TV.

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