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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
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> I wonder if that kind of issues are possible to fix in a soft-fork way.
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,he=
lvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Making Bitcoin function a=
fter 2038 is by definition a hard fork</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" st=
yle=3D"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000=
"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:arial,helveti=
ca,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I feel if we do HF, we should =
bundle other HF changes with it...</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote=
"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:19 PM vju=
deu via bitcoin-dev <<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation=
.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1p=
x solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>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 tim=
e 0xffffffff in 2106. More information: <a href=3D"https://bitcointalk.org/=
index.php?topic=3D5365359.0" target=3D"_blank">https://bitcointalk.org/inde=
x.php?topic=3D5365359.0</a><br><br>I wonder if that kind of issues are poss=
ible to fix in a soft-fork way.</div>
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