70 sats \ 12 replies \ @nullcount 10 Jul 2023 \ on: How does Bitcoin die? bitcoin
Bitcoin will be reborn before 2038 when it has no choice but to hard fork
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I survived Y2K. #Survivor #Techpocalypse
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2106, Bitcoin's integer timestamp is an unsigned version of the Unix 32 bit timestamp and will run out much farther in the future.
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What to include in the next hard fork is sure to be quite a debate
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sounds like a soft fork issue
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thx for the info.
.... Softforks are forward compatible....
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So I am having a hard time fully grasping this. The block-chain will still be in tact correct? Like all the old transactions will still be downloaded when a new node is created under this hard fork?
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You ever see that video of the grandma in Germany doing the Heil-Hitler solute like she was a little girl again, and then her grandson pushes her hand down and chastises her.
The new soft for will just point to old transactions before X date and be like "Yeah... we don't do that anymore." or more precisely " We do this now and not that, unless x is before y.
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that is quite the brain twister. Seems like all the BTC at that point would be moot.
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Why ? New transactions will just have a large time field. If we are verifying old transactions, the software will just allow for the fact it was made beofre the soft fork.
Tons of changes like this have already happened without damaging BTC. Some features from new clients are incompatible with the old ones, but the BTC within is still good
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Ah, I see. I guess forks just kind of confuse me lol
Seems like the "Implemented solutions" portion of that page is full of good stuff
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