Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] 32 vs 64-bit timestamp fields

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 21:08:34 -0400

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:00 PM, John Dillon
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Perhaps Satoshi did this delibrately, knowing that at some point a hard-fork
> would be a good idea, so that we all would have a good excuse to do one?

Guffaw :)  The year 2038 is so far in the future that it is not really
relevant, from that angle.

We need a hard fork to break the 1MB limit, and Satoshi explicitly
presumed that would happen sometime in the future.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
[email-masked]