Developer: The next soft fork on the Bitcoin network has an 80% probability of being BIP-54

TechFlow News, November 05: According to Decrypt, Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo said on MARA Foundation TV that he estimates the next soft fork on the Bitcoin network has an 80% probability of being the "Great Consensus Cleanup" (BIP-54). The proposal was introduced in 2019 and aims to fix four long-standing vulnerabilities in Bitcoin consensus rules, involving flaws in the difficulty adjustment mechanism and denial-of-service attack vectors among miners.

Corallo said that BIP-54 fixes "problems that everyone agrees on" and also serves as a practice exercise for developers who have not yet experienced a soft fork. LayerTwo Labs co-founder Paul Sztorc said on X that the upgrade is a "cleanup maintenance fork that does nothing." According to his developer survey at TABconf, most respondents expect the soft fork to activate as early as September 2027, with more pointing to 2028 or later.

Source: TechFlow