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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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  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 [bitcoin-dev] Year 2038 problem and year 2106 chain halting 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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