From: James Lu <jamtlu@gmail•com>
To: vjudeu@gazeta•pl,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Year 2038 problem and year 2106 chain halting
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:27:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANQHGB2Vm31Y8aGsrx3qNitRWh4y950LxxjzHqrD=qzwN=FmVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50769965-423dd279413d4dba11ba459cbd98387b@pmq6v.m5r2.onet>
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Making Bitcoin function after 2038 is by definition a hard fork
I feel if we do HF, we should bundle other HF changes with it...
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:19 PM vjudeu via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> It seems that Bitcoin Core will stop working in 2038 because of assertion
> checking if the current time is non-negative. Also, the whole chain will
> halt after reaching median time 0xffffffff in 2106. More information:
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5365359.0
>
> I wonder if that kind of issues are possible to fix in a soft-fork way.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-15 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-13 19:16 vjudeu
2021-10-15 15:27 ` James Lu [this message]
2021-10-17 8:19 ` Kate Salazar
2021-10-17 22:38 ` damian
2021-10-15 15:44 ` yanmaani
2021-10-15 22:22 ` vjudeu
2021-10-17 15:14 ` yanmaani
2021-10-17 15:46 ` Kate Salazar
2021-10-18 2:55 ` yanmaani
2021-10-15 23:01 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-10-16 9:06 ` vjudeu
2021-10-16 20:37 ` David Bakin
2021-10-16 21:34 ` Kate Salazar
2021-10-16 23:23 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-10-17 7:24 vjudeu
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