Longtime Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo, co-author of BIP-54, puts an 80% chance on the “Great Consensus Cleanup,” first proposed in 2019, becoming Bitcoin's next soft fork. The upgrade aims to fix four long-standing vulnerabilities in the consensus rules: poison blocks, time warp bugs, Merkle malleability and duplicate coinbase transactions. LayerTwo Labs' Paul Sztorc calls it maintenance work that adds no new functionality, while a TABconf developer survey points to September 2027 as the earliest expected timing, with most pointing to 2028 or later. Corallo argues BIP-54 could also serve as a deployment playbook for future soft forks, since previous upgrades involved considerable debate over activation mechanisms.
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