Bitcoin’s Proposed Great Consensus Cleanup Soft Fork Targets Legacy Vulnerabilities
Key Highlights: Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 54 (BIP-54), known as the Great Consensus Cleanup, addresses four long-standing network vulnerabilities including time-warp exploits and poison blocks. Co-author Matt Corallo estimates an 80% likelihood that BIP-54 will become Bitcoin’s first consensus soft fork since the Taproot activation in November 2021. Major mining pools MARA Pool and ViaBTC have ...