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

From: John Dillon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 01:00:05 +0000

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Peter Todd <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Who knows?
>
> Satoshi used 32-bits and those fields can't be changed now without every
> single Bitcoin user changing all at once. (a "hard-fork" change)
>
> We'll probably need to do one of those eventually for other reasons, so
> we might as well leave fixing the timestamps until then.

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?